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To: Luce Wildebeest who wrote (45446)	1/3/2004 1:15:53 PM
From: kumar	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50167

yeah, its historical events that can not be changed. how about looking towards the present times and future times ?

To: Luce Wildebeest who wrote (45446)	1/4/2004 2:40:42 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 50167

Colin, please tell NYT that this did not happened last night and when all this was happening an American President was signing until 1990 certification to US congress that no such thing is taking place for simple reason Pakistani were the cannon fodders for USSR evil empire once that evil was dismembered very conveniently the certification was withdrawn and USA all of a sudden realized that Pakistan is a nuclear nation state. Consistency makes deeper friendships betrayals make disasters, their is an acute sense of betrayal by many here and on this pages our friends from the other side of the aisles keep harping about that, the making of religious rights as the core group that would dismember USSR evil empire was a policy that no one but some big wigs in USA decided now once they achieved that goal they failed to realized that cancer like Ladens are greater threats, the religious right or liberal left can be disastrous in its objectivity although the present religious right has find the right balance by keeping religion out of many a crisis facing the world with the exception of that word ‘crusades’ used as a slip of tongue. I think it is rehashing of old information nearly 1972-77 and after that USA and Carter/Reagan has helped Pakistan demolish USSR with 20 bn $ of arms so by that logic the responsibility unfortunately lies on someone’s the one finger pointed to us the other four are pointing backward. Neither Libya nor Iran or for that matter North Korea has made any substantive developments in centrifuges designs, some of the Pakistani scientists who clandestinely helped the rogue states are behind the bars or under house arrest, this article in my opinion is more a propaganda than fair assessment of the situation on the ground, for me it is an insult to conventional wisdom that reporting should be objective not judgmental. I think design of centrifuges on paper is one thing development of centrifuge quite another and the events In South Asia did bring the genie out of the bag, had it not been pokhran there would been no chagai, this is the true fact.. I hope that NYT would makes its approach intellectually more sound, it is sad and poor , form e nuclear proliferation is a disaster and no one lese but responsibility of nuclear race rests on super powers who made enough bombs to kill humanity a million times.. Much as it is that we assume that the reason big boys should have it is that they are responsible but when comes to usage the propensity of use has been quite high if the damages to wining become irreparable, Nagasaki is only one example where things were used but many big nations have come close to use, the most irresponsible of the powers right now is Russia, where mafia rules supreme and they have inventory out there which no one knows what’s happening, with Chechnyans running crazy NYT will do fine if they can highlight that problem. Pakistan is a smaller problem, the mullah here is on the run in the present case moreover India and Pakistan have shown great responsibility in not shooting at each other, the recent events where 500,00 soldiers came and than withdrew was in sharp contrast to trigger happy nations where 500,00 soldiers came and conquered Baghdad to my personal delight, I think responsible nations are those who can manage their inventory intelligently by using it as a deterrent and not use basis, nukes albeit hateful have brought peace in our region we suffered many a wars until 1999 but since than all is quite on our borders and nations are coming closer, the kind of reports I read and kind of country this is it is at two extremes, I am shocked that how little mental minnows forming the core of the press correspondents know about the globe and the how little they teach America elite to respond to crisis, much as it’s the world is a very different place, for one if mullah rules supreme that article that was published yesterday in Pakistan could have got me under the ground but dissent is popular and it is not the country that I can decipher or know from NYT reports. The biggest threat to peace comes form inequities that are prevalent, the short termism of political goals and treating nations as toilet papers, Bush has definitely brought as consistency in present environment he deserves a lot of praise for that, NYT in a huge liberal jump is trying to dislodge that fine equilibrium that Bush has created they want Bush to open a new front and than declare him a failure who cannot bring results through diplomacy, the brining of Indian Pak together behind the scenes is a great act from present administration and circumcision of Gadahhfi is the class act as the liberals cannot digest, Khatami is about to come on the table so for us the present articles and agendas of left are self serving only.