Removing Pakistan's Nukes

Over the course of an interesting post explaining why Pakistan is not on the cusp of a Taliban takeover, Juan Cole starts speculating:

What I see is a Washington that is uncomfortable with anything like democracy and civilian rule in Pakistan; which seems not to realize that the Pakistani Taliban are a small, poorly armed fringe of Pushtuns, who are a minority; and I suspect US policy-makers of secretly desiring to find some pretext for removing Pakistan's nuclear capacity.

I don't think it's much of a secret that many in Washington wish Pakistan didn't have nukes. But I find it difficult to believe they'd view the collapse of Pakistan into total anarchy as a pretext for anything other than a collective freak out.