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To: JPR who wrote (7171)	9/24/1999 9:15:00 PM
From: sea_biscuit	Respond to of 12475

Pakis get Chinese and N.Korean missiles. No Manuals given by them, until payment in cold cash & US dollars is made. Without manuals, the pakis may shoot their feet And therein lies the problem with the sub-continent. Not only do people on both sides assume that the other side is incompetent, they also think of what a nuclear war will do to the enemy and conveniently forget what it can do to them! Even during the height of the Cold War, people never forgot what a nuclear war would do to themselves. And that is what made the possibility of a nuclear war that much less likely... Unfortunately, the problem doesn't seem to be confined to ignorant posters on the internet. It seems to extend to the military also. I remember an interview on PBS in which a commentator was speaking about a three-star general in the subcontinent who refused to speak to his counterpart on the other side about some shelling incident, when a conversation between the two would have clarified the situation. His reasoning for refusing to talk? Well, his talking to the other guy would give the other guy "more satisfaction" than it would give him! Fortunately, the US and the USSR didn't have guys like this when they had to defuse an instance in which Soviet fighters scrambled in response to what they thought was a US missile attack -- the commanders on both sides worked out the confusion almost as if they were colleagues working on the same project! It will be futile to expect such maturity to be displayed in the Indian subcontinent.