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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (49945)	9/27/2006 4:44:16 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50167

In wars there is no Monday morning quarter backing. Either you are part of it or out of it! You know why Musharraf can write this book and no one else in the sub-continent is even qualified is because it his country that has been fighting and siding with the Americans for the last 6 decades minus two years, it was his country that helped brought about and see to the implosion of Indians greatest friends the Soviets. It was his country that saw Gary Powell U2 mission when Khrushchev claimed that Peshawar will be circled red for a nuke target. (the map, taken out a pen and drawn a big red circle round Peshawar. In his characteristically blunt way Khrushchev was issuing a threat that ... From the U-2 to the P-3: The US-Pakistan Relationship)It was his country when you were playing hockey and wining gold that was fighting alongside Americans. It is about 58 years of being in bed together, now eat your heart out, we did not join the party in Silicon Valley software grounds we paid with our blood the sacrifices required to cement democracy instead of wretched Soviet system that you guys prodded and sided with. When India was enjoying and basking in this glory in Summer of 1980 Moscow, thousands of Pakistanis were dying fighting the Soviets. 1980 Moscow, USSR Hockey team under Captain Vasudevan Bhaskaran Hockey Gold Medal after 16 years by winning over Spain 4-3 in the finals. Jimmy Carter didn't introduce politics to the Olympics -- they were old, familiar friends. But after Soviet tanks rolled into Afghanistan in 1979, then-U.S. President Carter brought that relationship to the forefront. He called for the U.S. team to boycott the 1980 Moscow Olympics. (Jimmy Carter didn't introduce politics to the Olympics -- they were old, familiar friends. But after Soviet tanks rolled into Afghanistan in 1979, then-U.S. President Carter brought that relationship to the forefront. He called for the U.S. team to boycott the 1980 Moscow Olympics. In the end, some 60 teams boycotted the Moscow Games. Among U.S. allies, Great Britain, France, Italy and Sweden attended; ) Pakistan was fighting this proxy war on behalf of USA and Indians were attending the Olympics. Now today with benefit of hindsight to comment on what led to 'radicalism in Pakistan' is little too rich in my opinion. Comments on society are left for people who have fought wars and seen wars, in recent past it was in our region unfortunately Pakistan, India always sided with the Soviets leftist agenda and non-aligned movement. Now that Soviets have imploded and Software in Bangalore has shown the way to the Silicon Valley, democracy becomes number one subject but we poor Pakistanis were fighting a proxy war in a region we didn't have too, we were importing on US expense lot of radicals like OBL and giving them Casey gifted Stingers little did we ever realise that for all this it is us who will branded the terrorists, that is the worst part of the injustice that hurts. I wished we could have beaten India in Hockey in Moscow not listened to Carter and Reagan and denied them the glory they had after 16 years in achieving the gold medal, if we were there it would have been difficult.