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To: Rational who wrote (8482)	10/15/1999 8:36:00 PM
From: sea_biscuit	Respond to of 12475

Well, it is amply indicative of your intellectual faculties that you place your faith in a blabbermouth like George Fernandes. By singling out China as India's "enemy number one," he has essentially thrown away all the gains from the border-related confidence building measures that India had negotiated with China over the span of a decade. That would have been bad enough. But Fernandes never stops at merely "bad enough". He always aims to do one better than that! To call a nuclear weapon a ping-pong ball shows the depth of ignorance of the man. And you believe that he is correct! This is precisely the reason why the West believes that Third World countries should not have nuclear weapons -- neither deterrence nor disarmament is possible if the people choose to be unaware of the horrors and the long-term devastation that a nuclear war can wreak. As for your doubts whether Pakistan's nuclear weapons really work, maybe India can find out about it by indulging in "hot pursuit" across the border and also extensively bombing Pakistan's military installations to really "drive home the message", perhaps?!