Posted on 10/20/2004 10:06:36 PM PDT by CarrotAndStick
India is concerned about reports of a renewed Pakistani effort to buy F-16 fighter jets from the United States, saying the advanced aircraft could spark an arms race in South Asia even though Washington maintains that no such sales are being contemplated. "We are against introducing such advanced weaponry into South Asia," an Indian government official said Tuesday on the condition of anonymity. "They are not useful in the war on terror, and experience has shown that they could be used against India. ... They could spark a buildup or a weapons race in the region." In September, the Pakistani press carried a statement by a Pakistani defense official saying the United States had agreed to consider selling the nation F-16s fighter jets. Last week, Rear Adm. Craig McDonald, head of the office of the U.S. defense representative in Pakistan, was quoted in press reports as telling a Pentagon-organized conference on security cooperation that the Bush administration would go before Congress early next year to seek authorization for the sale. "It's a very long, involved process that will be taken up with our Congress once they come back after the first of the year," he was quoted by Reuters news agency as saying. Participants in a six-day U.S.-India forum sponsored by the Aspen Institute and the Confederation of Indian Industry that ended Tuesday said they told Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld that such a sale, while manageable for the Indian military, would be taken badly by the Indian public.
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I detect a little of your screen name going on....
Translation please?
But I thought India had jets far superior to the F-16... LOL
clean up in aisle 3.
i think we need a zot.
Not usefull in the war on Terror?!??
Tell that to the Taliban!
The only reason we would want thost jets in Pak is so there
would be support facilities built there which could be usefull
should Iran need a smack upside the head in the future. The reason we sell that particular Jet is because its cheap, keeps the assembly line running, and virtually anything else we fly can shoot it down.
Maybe it's just somebody playing around:
ILoveFreedom
Since Oct 21, 2004
i was waiting for somebody to show up with the lightning
If you stare at it, after a while, you can see the 3-D image of a bunny with a pancake on it's head.
I will admit that I hit abuse since it didn't seem like a rational comment, and the signup date was today or something...
:-/
We are against introducing such advanced weaponry into South Asia,"
*****
....like NU-CLE-AR WEAPONS? Jeez!
NUKULAR??
Are you sure? Or were you joking?
I can smell'em - but this one was eezy, more like an escapee from a mental institution, or someone who had taken more drugs than were good for them.
:]
Nuclear: Good
F-16's: Too dangerous
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