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To: Mohan Marette who wrote (4919)	7/5/1999 9:30:00 AM
From: Mohan Marette	Respond to of 12475

T.V.R.Shenoy-Looking for a scapegoat.('Stupid is as Stupid does') ....Primarily to save face. Pakistan's generals learned at least one lesson from the debacles of 1965 and 1971: it is better to let a civilian take the heat when things go wrong. And let us face it, things are beginning to go very wrong indeed for Pakistan. .. ================================= Two news items caught my eye recently which haven't been given the analysis they deserve. The first came from General Parvez Musharraf, chief of staff of the Pakistan army. Any decision to withdraw from Kargil, he said, must be a decision made by Nawaz Sharief. The second was the announcement, suitably trumpeted by Pakistan, that China would sell advanced technology fighter aircraft. First, I have no idea whom General Musharraf thought he was fooling when he said a prime minister of Pakistan has the right to give orders to the military. In 52 years there has never been any reason to think so; the only prime ministers blinded by such an illusion, Liaqat Ali Khan and Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, found their careers -- and their lives -- abruptly abbreviated.... ....I know many people think that the Indian government is making too much of international reactions. After all, they say, it isn't as if American approval or disapproval makes much of a difference to India's military policy. ...... Quite right, but it does make a difference to Pakistan. The United States is the traditional source both of Pakistani arms and Pakistani finances; when the Americans begin to frown, the Islamabad establishment shivers. ... 216.32.165.70

To: Mohan Marette who wrote (4919)	7/5/1999 9:45:00 AM
From: Mohan Marette	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12475

Piali Roy on Paki-bashing: 'Hindi-Chini bhai bhai to Hindi-Paki chai chai'. Paki-bashing is back. Instead of white neo-nazis on the rampage, NRIs and Americans of Indian origin have reclaimed that racist slur to denigrate Pakistanis during the current Kargil crisis. Newsflash to Ignorant Indians: Long before we became South Asians, desis or Indian-Americans, we were all once Pakis.......... Originating in England when south Asians began immigrating in greater numbers in the 1950s, it was the kind of language that would easily spurt out of an English racist in a Hanif Kureishi film. The Oxford English Dictionary dates its first usage in print to only 1964. It migrated to Canada by the late '60s and early '70s when its borders were allowed to be opened up. By the 1980s, 'dothead' and 'curryhead' were merely American alternates in New Jerseyite dot-buster's vocabulary. .... 216.32.165.70