[Stealhead]

It is much more complex than that.What happens if we did say nuke Pakistan how does China(a very close ally of Pakistan) react to this?How does Russia react to this? Two nations that can attack use with nuclear weapons at this very moment. Things are never as simple as push the button I'm afraid.Also the nukes that Pakistan has lack the range to even reach the US.But if certain factions that support the extremists could have a coup and over throw the weak government and then we are in real trouble.It is wiser to solve this issue by different means such getting the more moderate non-Taliban supporting factions in better control.Pakistan has a very weak government and that causes all the problems if we actually tried to solve this problem(which we currently do not we just give them money and hope that everything works out)If Pakistan and Afghanistan simply had governments that where not weak and corrupt(or at least much less so enough to stand on their own) it would go a long way and solve most of the problems in that part of the world this is very possible because many Pakistanis have been found to dislike the Taliban because violence caused by them has spread into much of the country so the majority of Pakistanis dislike the extremists do not believe those clips that you see of hundreds of Pakistanis protesting against the US or for the Taliban it is very common for groups to hire people to show up so most of the protestors are there because they got paid and they could care less about what they supposedly protesting.Most of the extremist support comes form outside Pakistan and they take advantage of the situation.For example in Pashtun society Imams traditionally received much less respect than tribal elders received it was the influence of outside groups "educating" young boys that gave the Imams much more power and influence.