And in India, which has been at loggerheads with Pakistan since the 1947 partition, an official told Hersh, ??They like us better in Pakistan than you Americans. I can tell you that in a public-opinion poll we, India, will beat you. ?
Former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf, currently living in exile in London, told Hersh that he is troubled by U.S.-controlled Predator drone attacks on targets inside Pakistan, which began in 2005. ??I said to the Americans, ??Give us the Predators.' It was refused. I told the Americans, ??Then just say publicly that you're giving them to us. You keep on firing them but put Pakistan Air Force markings on them.' That, too, was denied. ?
Speaking of Predator attacks, Pakistani journalist Rahimullah Yusufzai told Hersh, ??What the (Pakistani) Army did not understand, and what the Americans don't understand, is that by demolishing the house of a suspected Taliban or their supporters you are making an enemy of the whole family. ?
The issue of nuclear weapon instability in Pakistan reflects on the series of historic American decisions to (a)manufacture and use atomic weapons in World War Two in the first place, and (b) to spend literally trillions of taxpayer dollars over the years to increase their numbers and lethality and (c)to help nations such as Israel, India and Pakistan to build their nuclear arsenals over the objections of the international authority. The U.S. (d) has also sold warplanes capable of carrying nuclear bombs both to hostile neighbors India and Pakistan, further increasing the possibility of their use.
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