Pakistan faces 'existential threat': US General Petraeus

Extremist forces threaten the very existence of Pakistan, the incoming US commander in the region warned Thursday, as tension mounted between NATO and Pakistani forces on the Afghan frontier.

Webmaster's Commentary: 

Unfortunately, the "existential threat" to the future of a democratic Pakistan may well be that of US military meddling in their internal affairs.

A government cannot simultaneously be reaching out in dialogue, then shooting at the people with whom that dialogue is supposedly taking place.

Aerial shelling guarantees two things; you're going to kill one heck of a lot civilians, and radicalize those left standing even further against the existing government.

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