What I was alluding to:

Nuclear escalation as Pakistan builds plutonium reactor

In my post July 20th, 2006 "Where we go from there would likely be more fundamentalizing and authoritarianism, while other major players may reap the field. [For better or worse, those other major players are the U.N, the Arab League, China and Russia, not to mention India and Pakistan."]

How I felt about it is put well by William Rivers Pitt in:
The Pin in the Grenade