World crisis cocktail: Pakistan, political instability, nukes and Islamic extremism (Video)

Crisis in Pakistan is growing which spells trouble for all of the world

In the best of times Pakistan is at best a marginal ally of the United States. These are definitely not the best of times as the risks to the ruling government, and the world by extension, grows.

A partial list of some of Pakistan's crises that threaten not only that country but all of civilization.

• Potential collapse of the Zardari-Gilani government as two political parties withdraw from the governing coalition.
• The always existing problem of Pakistan's membership in the nuclear nations club and the question of who is in control of them.
• The murder of Governor Taseer of Punjab by one of his own security guards because of the leaders goal to reform the blasphemy law that imposes a mandatory death sentence on anyone found to have insulted Islam.
• The fact that the Pakistani security forces have growing numbers of Islamic extremists in the ranks at various levels of authority and access.
• Growing risk to the economy and the resulting social turmoil based in no small part to the increasing political instability.
• The border with Afghanistan remaining a hotbed of Taliban activity that has proven difficult to eliminate.
• The rise of Islamic fundamentalism coupled with poverty and the indoctrination of the young in the country's madrassas.
• Anecdotal evidence of the crisis is a Facebook fan page that grew into the thousands in support of the assassination of Taseer just hours after the murder.

I am sure I have left one or more things off of this list, but you get the gist.