Hi Neil,

>Just because they have the bomb, doesn't mean the majority of the population has living conditions the same as ours.

You'll find different conditions all over the globe. But classifying the situation in pakistan as being in the stone age is a bit blunt IMO. The do have electricity (except for now as I heard they had a major power failure) telephone, television, etc. They have airports, busses, schools, universities etc, so it hardly classifies as stone age.

We are easily drawing conclusions upon countries, looking with a western view.

Walter,

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>>>How can you bomb something back to the stone age, when it is already there, especially the northern areas.
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>>I did not know they had nucluear power in the stone age ... :)
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>>>>It had always perplexed me that Pakistan wasn't on the Axis of Evil list. Now we know why.
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>>>>US 'threatened to bomb' Pakistan
>>>>"The US threatened to bomb Pakistan 'back to the stone age' unless it joined the fight against al-Qaeda, President Pervez Musharraf has said."
>>>>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/5369198.stm