And do you recall...
...that the bush regime threatened to bomb Pakistan back into the
Stone Age if they didn't cooperate with the US in finding Bin Laden
and Al Qaeda operatives?
Look here:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/09/21/60minutes/main2030165.shtml
Don't worry, it's not an endorsement of protecting those fanatics,
I'm just making a point about how the current government has no
problem threatening others with torture and destruction to meet
their needs.
So maybe the idea that they would be dancing about the ruination of
other societies in their way for the emergence of the American Empire
isn't all that off. You will be told otherwise, of course.