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To: redgolum; Monkey Face
Real question is what will the US do if India and Pakistan start a shooting war with each other.

Not a happy thought!

185 posted on 07/11/2006 8:05:16 AM PDT by sionnsar (†trad-anglican.faithweb.com† | Iran Azadi | SONY: 5yst3m 0wn3d, N0t Y0urs | NYT:Jihadi Journal)
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To: sionnsar

Indian and Pakistani relations are a very strange bird. Just when it looked like things were going to boil over in a nuclear standoff last year, they made up and decided to pursue peace. Many incidents have occurred since then, but the sparring rhetoric is gone. It seems to me that the Indians and Pakistanis agree that events like this are horrible for both countries, but the tinderbox in Kashmir is so unstable, retaliatory action by either side could devolve into an internal coup in Pakistan, which nobody wants on either side. It's as if both sides have decided that the best bet is to put Kashmir into an isolation tank and build diplomatic relations at the same time. My guess is that neither governments would lose any sleep is Kashmir disappeared from the map.


202 posted on 07/11/2006 8:11:12 AM PDT by Rutles4Ever
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