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From: LindyBill5/29/2009 8:41:40 PM
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Recklessly rising India?

By Thomas P.M. Barnett

ARTICLE: Nuclear Aims By Pakistan, India Prompt U.S. Concern, By R. Jeffrey Smith and Joby Warrick, Washington Post, May 28, 2009 Link

A disturbing pair of reports on Pakistan and India. Why India needs nuclear-tipped cruise missiles is beyond me, but most of their ongoing military modernization betrays a profoundly immature view of the possibilities of great-power war. On this score, they disappoint immensely. Because if they're that stupid on their force structure, how out of control might they be on the actual employment? As for Pakistan, here it's just dumber following dumb--with our money no less. To me, this is enough information for the U.S. to back away from the Bush program of helping India on nuclear power. This is a great power behaving like it's 1959 instead of 2009, and if it's pursued to a certain degree, we'll start having conversations with the Chinese about hedging against and containing India's reckless rise. Won't that be pathetic?
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