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

To: Lola who wrote (10451)	11/13/2001 11:31:50 PM
From: Selectric II	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 27666

Are we sure that steps haven't already been taken to the extent possible in these past short two months, or that more aren't coming? Do you really think Pakistan is calling the shots that much? Do you think Musharraf is even that secure in power right now? I'd rather think of it in terms of how the administration has characterized this from the start -- a long term strategy, worldwide in scope, with varying coalition partners as we need to focus on various objectives, each in due course. The alternative would seem to be what the Taliban is doing right now and what Mullah Omar complained about his own troops engaging in -- going "hither and thither." Nobody ever won a war using a "hither and thither" strategy.

To: Lola who wrote (10451)	11/13/2001 11:42:09 PM
From: Jorj X Mckie	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 27666

India has been told by the U.S. not to cross over into Pakistan to destroy their training camps because the U.S. needs Pakistan right now. As far as I know, the U.S. only made that request in the past two months. Why didn't India cross over and destroy the training camps before 9/11? Why doesn't India just flip the U.S. the bird and say "sorry, we need to cross over and destroy those training camps"? I keep on reading about how India doesn't need the U.S., what could be their motivation for agreeing to hold off for now? It seems to me like the people of India who have a problem with the U.S. asking India to hold off on hostilities toward Pakistan, really need to be looking to their own government as the problem and not the U.S. It's time for other countries to start taking responsibility for their own decisions instead of always blaming the U.S. If it isn't in India's own self interest to cooperate with the U.S. WRT to Pakistan, than they should not make a decision to cooperate with the U.S.