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

To: calgal who wrote (9708)	11/3/2001 3:46:20 PM
From: Elmer Flugum	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 27666

Well, it was before my birth, but 50 years is a small amount of time. Our technological progress has accelerated since and the historical perspective could easily be lost especially amongst the even younger Americans.

To: calgal who wrote (9708)	11/3/2001 3:53:02 PM
From: Lola	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 27666

US SHOULD TARGET PAKISTAN CAMPS: INDIAN ENVOY By Carol Giacomo, Diplomatic Correspondent Washington India's envoy to Washington said on Friday the US-led anti-terrorism war must target militant training camps in Pakistan as well as Afghanistan and he accused Islamabad of helping to resupply the Taliban. Briefing reporters ahead of Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee's first meeting with President George W. Bush, Lalit Mansingh said one of New Delhi's goals is "robust" military relations, including possible purchases of US arms. Vajpayee will arrive in the US capital from Moscow on Nov. 7 and depart for the United Nations General Assembly in New York two days later. The highlight of Vajpayee's stay is a meeting and working lunch with Bush at the White House, but he also has plans to hold talks with congressional leaders. After decades in which US-Indian relations were cool if not hostile, the world's two largest democracies have made significant strides in forging vastly improved ties. However, India has been rattled that the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon forced the US into a renewed alliance with Pakistan, its nuclear rival. Bush plans to meet Pakistani Pervez Musharraf in New York. Washington is waging war in Afghanistan against the alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, Saudi-born extremist Osama bin Laden, his al Qaeda network and the Taliban rulers who harbor them. India accuses Pakistan of sponsoring Islamic militants from Pakistan, Afghanistan and other Muslim states who are opposing Indian forces in Kashmir, the disputed Himalayan region that the South Asian nations have wrangled over for half a century. Mansingh said that despite domestic public pressure to wage war on militants in Kashmir just as the United States is waging war in Afghanistan, the Indian government has decided that "as of now .. we will observe restraint." DRAINING THE SWAMP But he noted Washington has vowed to "drain the swamp" in its global war on terrorists and said the swamp not only includes Afghanistan but also Pakistan, where, he alleged, camps and religious schools are training extremists. "The (terrorism) problem cannot be solved if you just clean out the swamp in Afghanistan, leaving the swamp in Pakistan intact," Mansingh said.(Reuters) hclinfinet.com:8080/infinet/2001/NOV/WEEK1/7/AAOInsideNN5.jsp