To: arun gera who wrote (42719 ) 5/25/2002 4:20:53 AM From: IQBAL LATIF Respond to Pressures will lessen as Pakistan 4 days test continues with successful launch of intermediate range missiles today. India last conducted a test of its Agni missile class in February. Unusually, Pakistan did not follow suit. Thus, if it wished, New Delhi could plausibly dismiss Pakistan's latest announcement as a belated response to its own exercise in February. Now that hawks on both sides will see what it will be like if war goes out of control, the pressure will build up to sit and talk, I expect that hawks are basically ejaculating their frustrations, moving a million man in forward positions and than nuclear mock carrying 5-10 missiles in spate of few days which are in production stage and have been even handed over to formations will help hawks see the light at then end of the tunnel. Mr. Vajpayee has seen it all and it quite relaxed about it, it was some in the media who were thinking Pakistan is a walk over, with more than 300 missiles and between 150-200 bombs from tactical weapons to 3 times Hiroshima size I see an order resuming, the crackdown will and have started even today 6 were eliminated in Sialkot. Media is making big news about it however these tit for tats have more often than not helped the ‘hawkish bulls with extraordinary libido’ to settle down after lot of superfluous erection. It will dawn on these people that war will not take just the path they need but it has dynamics of its own and may turn ugly and it may be possible that after some hard hits things may become ugly and with these missiles who knows what will become of our region, if these are in the hands of formations. Force equalisers cruel balancers someone have ot wink and we will see that it will be both sides hawks.
