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Strategies & Market Trends : India Coffee House
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To: Nick who wrote (619)5/15/1998 2:19:00 PM
From: Rational   of 12475
 
Ego of democratically elected leaders (not of dictators) is fine. Perhaps the deceased Bhutto was an egomaniac. But, he was a very strong and visionary leader to sign the Simla accord. The Pakistani military system is screwed up and they could not continue with Bhutto. The "leaders" after General Zia's death are simply puppets of the generals. Sariff is a sensible guy and wants peace; he does not carry the baggage of independence movement. But, he cannot act decisively because the generals will throw him out.

In fact, even Jim Baker (?), the ex-CIA director made mid-night trips to convince the Pakistani generals during Rajiv's time (when Rajiv was making massive exercises on Pak boarder under Sundarji and was waiting for a trigger to finish the task) that Pakistan would receive mega-ton nuclear bombs in response to their kilo-ton contrivances -- which means that the CIA knew of the nuclear capability of the countries then and that India was far ahead of Pakistan. CIA did not perhaps know of the H-bomb capability.

It is truly pathetic that Pakistan would still be controlled by the generals. That is the problem. Pakistanis are as smart as Indians (they all are Indians, IMO) to recognize the need to have peace with India. But after Bhutto's death, the elected leaders are scared to voice sentiments of peace. The current generals must retire or die before new ones take over with no residual envy for the situation to change.
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