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To: arun gera who wrote (66720)	1/18/2003 11:37:12 AM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 281500

I don't believe the referendum you mention is the one that the UN called for in 1948, for the people of Kashmir/J&K to decide their governance. Perhaps I am mistaken, but my understanding is that India has always resisted this - perhaps Pakistan has, too. What was held recently, I believe, was an election for local governments. Before we go too far with this, please be advised that I was responding to Kumar's argument that the US was being hypocritical for resolving Iraq's problems but not the problems of, say, Kashmir. My response to him was "careful what you ask for, you may get it." Although I doubt that the US has any intention to resolve this particular situation, especially not by force, the day may come when we have no choice, for the good of the rest of the world, if the alternative would be all out nuclear conflict. The world is getting to be a much smaller place than it was, and we understand each other much better than we used to. North Korean exhibits great ignorance when it argues that war between the US and North Korea would lead to all-out global conflagration. That might have been true as little as ten years ago, but it's not true now, now that we all do business with each other, and need each other.