The real story with the Libya development is the light it's showing on where it likely got its nuclear starter kit: i.e., Pakistan.
New information from North Korea and particularly from Iran is starting to show us that, in essence, there really is no global weapons proliferation problem so much as there's a Pakistan problem.
We now know enough to say with increasing confidence that every state we're worrying about got either all of their help, or their most significant help, from the Pakistanis.
This raises so many questions and so many sharp-edged dilemmas that it is truly difficult to know where to start.
Since the Pakistanis were the primary authors and financial supporters of the Taliban and had long standing ties with Osama bin Lauden and company, it casts a very peculiar light on the Bush administration's coziness with the country's military dictatorship. This, combined with the Bushies refusal to seriously probe the obvious involvement of the Saudis in 9/11 and other terrorist acts, makes one wonder what Dubyah thinks is really going on.
Here we are, making war on Iraq, which had no tie to any of the parties involved in 9/11, while touting two of the worst offenders as our close allies. This becomes even more schizo when we recall that just over a decade ago Saddam was our good ally. Last year our president and his closest advisors were all over TV trying to frighten us about the prospect of Saddam giving WMDs (that apparently he didn't have) to Islamic terrorists (that hated him and that he didn't trust), and all the while our "friends" the Pakistanis - who do have WMDs - were in constant contact with those Islamic terrorists - and that doesn't seem to bother Bush and company at all.
Can you hear me now?
