00:00Asim Munir is Osama bin Laden in a suit.
00:04The fact of the matter is, there is no amount of concession that can be given to Pakistan
00:09that is going to change the ideology of Asim Munir.
00:14That Pakistan is playing a very dangerous game.
00:17Pakistan is now threatening half the world with nuclear weapons.
00:22It's threatening to blow up Indian dams and so forth.
00:25Pakistan has lost its right to be a legitimate state on the international stage.
00:33We've heard Donald Trump time and again talk about brokering peace between India and Pakistan.
00:40As an ex-Pentagon official, what is it that you're picking up from ground?
00:46What really played out there?
00:48Well, first of all, Donald Trump is a businessman.
00:52And not just a businessman, he's a real estate mogul.
00:56So he's used to the horse trading and the back and forth.
01:00Morality doesn't come into play.
01:03Ideology doesn't come into play.
01:06This is what we need to understand right now when Donald Trump talks about making peace.
01:13He's making peace, but he just wants that signature on a sheet of paper.
01:17He doesn't, excuse me, he just wants that signature on a sheet of paper.
01:25He doesn't care about the quality of peace.
01:28What Donald Trump doesn't understand is that it's not the piece of paper that matters.
01:36It's the quality of peace.
01:38And a bad peace deal can actually advance war.
01:43This is Donald Trump's fundamental mistake.
01:46The other problem is Donald Trump very much has the ambition to win a Nobel Peace Prize.
01:56It may sound silly, but it's a fact.
01:59He looks at this as something which will show the world that he's better than Obama.
02:05He's better than Jimmy Carter.
02:07He's better than Bill Clinton.
02:09He really is a man with very, very little self-confidence.
02:14And what the Pakistanis, the Israelis, and now many others have done, the Azerbaijanis, the Armenians, they've played to his ego and convinced him that he truly deserves this.
02:27Unfortunately, India will pay the price as he puts his efforts into overdrive.
02:34Then again, the big problem with American peacemaking consistently, not only Donald Trump, is this.
02:43Americans look at terrorism through the lens of grievance.
02:47They believe that a grievance can be addressed with a diplomatic formula, a combination of bribes and concessions and so forth.
02:58They don't understand the ideological underpinnings of many terrorists.
03:05Asim Munir is Osama bin Laden in a suit.
03:08The fact of the matter is, there is no amount of concession that can be given to Pakistan that is going to change the ideology of Asim Munir or the Pakistani elite, which he represents.
03:23This is why I'm saying that Pakistan is playing a very dangerous game.
03:30And while it may sound radical, the fact that Pakistan is now threatening half the world with nuclear weapons, it's threatening to blow up Indian dams and so forth, is an indication that Pakistan has lost its right to be a legitimate state on the international stage.
03:53It's time for the United States, if not under Donald Trump, then in future administrations, to consider other policies, whether the region would be more stable, for example, if the United States recognized Balochistan, if it recognized other regions of Pakistan, and if Pakistan were allowed to collapse, because in reality, Pakistan is already a failed state held together with Band-Aids.
04:23And the fact is that if we do not manage its decline, Asim Munir is right, it could cause a nuclear war.
04:32The lesson we should draw from Asim Munir's comments in Tampa, Florida, is that Pakistan is teetering, Pakistan is failing, and it needs to have international intervention for a managed decline.
04:47Now, just like SEAL Team 6 entered Pakistan to take out Osama bin Laden, it's coming near time when in a future administration, other SEAL teams should enter Pakistan to secure its nuclear weapons because the alternative is simply too great to bear.
05:09So, as a result, it's running out, and it'sinctions that you see in the future.
05:21And, as a result, we're fighting, and we're fighting.
05:24It's happening.
05:24So, let's rage, so I don't know.
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