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To: Bilow who wrote (30960)	5/28/2002 3:26:38 PM
From: frankw1900	Read Replies (1) of 281500

In the final analysis, India is stuck with Russia as a strategic partner and Pakistan is stuck with the US. This has been the pattern through many changes of the forms of the various governments. I hope this has made it clear why it is that no matter how much individual US citizens (such as yourself) hate Pakistan and love India, the US is not going to abandon Pakistan. Not clear at all. That was then and this is now. Pakistan is becoming more kleptocratic, socialist, undemocratic, and anti american even as India reluctantly becomes less so. Pakistan supported the Afghan regime that harboured al Qaeda; significant parts of the Pakistan military establishment still support al Qaeda and its ilk.. The US, I repeat, will not [refuses to] sell to Pakistan the weapons it does sell to India. The raised temperature you mention between India and Pakistan was caused by an attack on the Indian parliament by folk based in Pakistan. It's as unreasonable to expect India to let that slide as it would be to expect the US to let slide an attack on the US Congress and Senate. The Indians asked the Pakistanis to deliver up the people reponsible for supporting the attack and Pakistan has refused - could you imagine Mexico or Canada taking such a position against the US in like circumstance? Do you think an attack on a nation's parliament is not a large provocation, or did you just forget about it? I didn't say the US would support India against Pakistan but it wouldn't surprise me at all if it manages not to support either side in a shooting war. I did say Pakistan is an extremely ambiguous ally: Given Pakistan's sponsorship of terrorist activity in Kashmir and the overlap of that activity with al Qaeda activities it may also be argued that a Pakistan defeat by India is in US interests as even more terrorists will be killed and the war would drain anti-US Pakistan operatives from Afghanistan to Indian border. You're making assumptions about who I am and what I love and hate. Always a bad idea to make assumptions.

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