Pakistan resuming role of nuke proliferator

Obama's new world order and Israel -Caroline Glick

In the late stages of the presidential race, now Vice President Joseph Biden warned us that "[i]t will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama...[we're] gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy..."

America's adversaries began testing Obama's mettle within weeks.

[D]ue to Obama's stridently anti-Pakistani rhetoric throughout the campaign - rhetoric untethered to any coherent strategy for dealing with Pakistan - the Pakistanis felt the need to test his mettle as quickly as possible.

Last Friday, the Pakistani Supreme Court freed Pakistan's Dr. Strangelove - A.Q. Khan [pictured above & right] - from the house arrest he had been under since his nuclear proliferation racket was exposed in 2004. Khan is not only the father of Pakistan's nuclear arsenal - but of North Korea's and Iran's as well.

Khan's release casts a dark shadow, because with him free, the prospect that Pakistan is back in the proliferation business becomes quite real. Khan [quickly] announced his plan to travel abroad immediately [and] the Islamabad court stated that Khan is free to resume his "scientific research."

Obama [had previously] let it be known that he intended for his envoy Richard Holbrook to pressur[e] India to reach a peace agreement with Pakistan over the disputed Kashmir province, [this] in spite of clear proof that Pakistani intelligence mastermind[ed] the December terror attacks in Mumbai.

[T]he next [Israeli] government should draw lessons from India['s reaction]. Once it became clear to the Indians that the Obama administration intended to treat them as the moral equivalent of Pakistan, they struck back hard. New Delhi essentially told Washington to get lost.

India's National Security Adviser M.K. Narayanan said that Obama would be "barking up the wrong tree" if he were to subscribe to such views. He added that India would be unwilling to discuss the issue of Kashmir with Holbrook and so compelled Obama to remove the issue from Holbrook's portfolio.

Moreover, in response to Khan's release from house arrest, India called for the international community to list Pakistan as a terror state.

In acting as it has, India has made two things clear to the Obama administration. First, it will not allow Washington to appease Pakistan at its expense. Second, it will do whatever it believes is necessary to secure its own interests both diplomatically and militarily. A sound example for the next [Israeli] government to follow.
[Jerusalem Post]
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