Today we hold the advantage. World opinion is on our side, which will not change unless we do something stupid, while Pakistan is in a bind (it can bluff about using nuclear weapons, but frankly that would mean the end of Pakistan).
Well, how can anybody be absolutely sure that Pakistan is bluffing? The following article excerpt (from Gaurav Kampani's article on Rediff) is relevant here :
Now, several Indian political hawks believe that
Pakistan's doctrine of first-use is a strategy of bluff
and bluster; first-use, as the argument goes, is the
high road to national suicide. But it is impossible to
determine whether Pakistan is bluffing because no
rational Indian leader is likely to risk a nuclear war.
My comments: Many of the RSS/VHP nitwits don't really look and sound rational! They are always bound to say that Pakistan is bluffing, until it is too late.
And btw, if a nuclear war can obliterate Pakistan, it is still no comfort to the "survivor", i.e. India. It would have been devastated so much that it will slip from the Third World into the "Seventh World" or the "Eighth World". Even Haiti will begin to look like paradise when compared to India then. |
