Reading into things

After finishing Three Cups of Tea, I am much more informed about the Pakistan/Afghanistan border areas. There were two small maps in the paperback edition, to which I referred constantly, looking for every town and geographical feature mentioned in the text. There was some news bit on a site today about the concerns of Pakistani military people that the US might be working on breaking up Pakistan, to weaken them and wrest away their nuclear weapons. In the past, it seemed very dangerous to me for Pakistan to possess them, but now I am thinking it may be their only big chip to hang on to their land. There are huge forces at work in a relatively small area, whose main value seems to me to be its proximity to China, which has helped build the KKH - Karakoram Highway - a conduit right into China. So would India be helping to destroy Pakistan, to reabsorb it? There were Pakistani military guys which the school builder came to know and trust, who told him Bin Laden was a one time wonder, blowing up "the village of New York", then running away to hide. These men thought the US fuck up of Iraq had done far more to damage Western relationships with their area, setting things back a couple of hundred years. Yes, I have thought that all along, and when Rumsfield said there weren't good targets in Afghanistan, the feeling of cold doom was reinforced.