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>>> dredmond at efn.org 05/06/02 22:04 PM >>>
On Sun, 5 May 2002, Ulhas Joglekar wrote:
> Pakistan has nuclear weapons.
Pakistan isn't al-Qaeda. But the fact that (1) Pakistan and India and China and Russia all have nukes, and (2) Afghanistan is in between all of them, suggests there's that much more reason for the UN to reconstruct Afghanistan.
> I don't know much about the total system, but what Pakistan has to do with
> petroleum rents?
They don't have them, so their sectarian violence tends to be relatively limited, whereas Saudi Arabia's sectarianism is much better-funded and thus far more deadly.
-- Dennis