Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Idea Of The Day -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: BubbaFred who wrote (41242)	10/28/2001 1:57:28 PM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Respond to of 50167

Powell before the Senators said that General Musharraf did not ask for weapons. The only thing he wanted was debt relief to improve the living conditions of his people. Answer to this very remark..<< ...wait and see how these huge american aid and other countries aid in billions will be used in the next 2 years >> On your remark..<We'll find out and it may not be pleasant. Part of it could be for modenizing the armaments to today's state of the arts standards. What will become to the older weapons??? That's the biggest question. Siphoned off to the Taleban gang ??? Possibility is higher than not. > First of all Talebans was armed with were US stingers and US state of art something we don’t produce, they were supported and they were use to stop the Communist invasion of Russians, now commies would have been a better bet with hindsight even you recognized it, in those days they were the evil empire as such any one opposing them the best bet. Pakistan helped them for a deeper northern border and a friendlier one, Iran-India and Russian wanted out so as to bring in the Alliance who consider the Durand line, the present Pakistani-Afghan border as an aberration and would like the border to move southwards to Attock, so that more area can be added to their banditry and arm twisting. If your nation is surrounded by people who wants you to cut to size any moment what are you going to do? Attock is 80 Km from my town where I live in Islamabad, for me that is important that Durand line stays and naturally if Indians have a design to move that forward with help of Alliance we have a little problem to counter it, if you have desire to live with freedom I have one small one too.. That was the entire strategy, Iran supports the Alliance to get Shia Rabbani up and running and Russian would never forgive us for 1978-88 debacle that saw them loose their empire, we did not call the Russian as evil someone else did, and we were used as a tool like now for last 50 years, we were and are armed by the US the first and than the Chinese and you can see that now we don’t want any we know what war is all about we have learned our lesson, like Europe did in from 1870-1945 after 30 million dead and killing 9 million just in holocaust, so our enlightenment is coming but it is not very late, we have learned our lessons, we are no fools and hopefully we will try to educate and bring our society to higher level of understanding and reasoning. The best part of it is that so far most of the Pakistani arms have been used for US interests in Russian war and presently in Afghanistan but to accuse us of all follies is little to far stretched. That is a qualified assumption, the old weapons are used to keep our independence from prying eyes of those who want us back in their fold and there are many who would like to accomplish that exactly.