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Politics : America Under Siege: The End of Innocence -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: chalu2 who wrote (5940)	10/2/2001 10:30:01 PM
From: Lola	Respond to of 27666

India is getting ready ... when they go to war they do the job right ... India is slow to anger but when they're mad they show no mercy ... Pakistan doesn't have a chance against India. Pakistan won't like it but they should have kept the terrorists away from Kashmir if they had any sense ... especially considering the trouble they are already in with the U.S. Lola:)

To: chalu2 who wrote (5940)	10/2/2001 10:58:31 PM
From: Lola	Respond to of 27666

India to US: if you can, so can we By K.P. Nayar Wednesday October 3, 3:05 AM Washington, Oct. 2: India is making out its case in Washington for hot pursuit of terrorists into Pakistan — and for legitimising New Delhi’s right to take any action it may deem fit to destroy the machinery in Pakistan which produces terrorists who sneak into Kashmir. Implicit in Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s letter to President George W. Bush is a warning that just as the US has reserved the right to attack terrorists anywhere in the world who threaten America’s security, India, too, has the right to take similar action. “We fully understand that in resolutely countering the terrorism that attacked USA on September 11 you are discharging your core responsibility for the interest and security of the people of the United States of America,” Vajpayee wrote to Bush. Referring to the suicide-bomb attack in Kashmir yesterday, the Prime Minister wrote that “incidents of this kind raise questions for our security, which as a democratically elected leader of India, I have to address in our supreme national interest”. Vajpayee then sent an unambiguous warning to Islamabad. “Pakistan must understand that there is a limit to the patience of the people of India.” During a 75-minute meeting with national security adviser Condoleezza Rice, foreign minister Jaswant Singh said the US should not make the mistake of treating the problem as the solution. Bush dropped in at that meeting and spent 40 minutes with the minister, just as he did during Singh’s last visit here in April. In an interview to a local television channel, Singh later elaborated on this key message which he carried to the Bush administration from Vajpayee. “I have always believed that the whole epicentre of the spread of terrorism now in the region... the focus of terrorism had become Afghanistan and Pakistan. So they are, to my mind — and we know it — they are a part of the problem.” He continued: “Our approach to terrorism cannot be uni-dimensional. It would be simplistic and a great error for us to think that simply by eliminating one manifestation of terrorism — al Qaida or Osama bin Laden — we have eliminated a global threat.” Singh continued: “At the moment, you wish to concentrate, focus your attention and be applying yourself to al Qaida, absolutely fine. But believe me that if you think that by eliminating al Qaida and leaving every other organisation intact, the problem would have even begun to be resolved. No.” Yesterday, the urgency of the message was registered in official Washington after the suicide bomber in Srinagar killed and maimed scores of people. It was buttressed by Vajpayee’s letter, in which he directly blamed Pakistan for the latest spurt in violence in Kashmir. India may not take any precipitate action which will raise tension with Pakistan during this moment of crisis. Vajpayee said as much in his letter to Bush: “We are with you and do not wish to overload the agenda in any way.” But the objective of Vajpayee’s letter and the missions by Singh and national security adviser Brajesh Mishra earlier were to keep Pakistan-sponsored terrorism on America’s policy radar screen. That the message was going down in Washington was obvious when state department spokesman Richard Boucher, shedding his ambivalence, said: “India is a key partner in the global coalition against terrorism and we do believe that terrorism must be ended everywhere.” He added: “We have continued to maintain a policy on Kashmir. It looks to everybody with influence to reduce the violence and to try to see that the situation there is resolved peacefully.”