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To: Area51 who wrote (3981)10/10/2001 1:55:03 AM
From: HG  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 281500
 
Yes. India has the power to reduce Pakistan to ashes. It has always had that power. It chooses not to exert that power. When attacked, it has always defended itself, no more, no less. And the govt has the right to defend the country from terrorism, by whatever means it sees fit. Just like US does.

Traditionally, India has chosen not to attack. For all their foriegn policy debacles, it tries not to harm without a reason. Even Pakistan. Exceptions exist, but only to prove the rule.

But thats not at all what my post implied. This is not a thread about Kashmir.

What I meant was simpler.

That US does not have any moral authority to preach what it does not practice.



To: Area51 who wrote (3981)10/10/2001 8:28:32 AM
From: Jill  Respond to of 281500
 
To borrow a friend's term, I think the appropriate description of this whole conflict is not World War III, and not Cold War II, but Global Civil War. It is really weird, but that's what it is, even though global and civil don't even make sense in the same sentence.