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To: sukhoi-30mki

Not good. Not at all. India back then was a bit cozy to the Soviets, and we favored the Pakis. But letting them go nuclear will be a growing problem.


2 posted on 10/28/2007 12:00:41 PM PDT by SolidWood ("I knew my God was bigger than his. I knew that my God was a real God and his was an idol.")
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To: SolidWood

The CIA at the time was operating under severe restraints placed upon them by the Church Amendment, which was designed to hobble and handicap all these “adventures” by the “spooks” over at the Company. But even then, that was not as bad as it got later on under the regime of the “Former Occupant of the Oval Office, 1993-2001”.


6 posted on 10/28/2007 12:14:54 PM PDT by alloysteel (Ignorance is no handicap for some people in a debate. They just get more shrill.)
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To: SolidWood

1984 was a different era, confronting communism was more important than islamofascism.


8 posted on 10/28/2007 1:19:58 PM PDT by omega4179 (stop hitlery 08)
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To: SolidWood

Consider what was going on in Afghanistan at the time. Pakistan was our base for supplying the Mujahadeen against the Soviets. I agree that in retrospect it looks bad, but at the time India bombing Pakistan would have really been to the Soviet’s benefit since it probably would have touched off another Indo-Pakistani War leaving the Soviets a freer hand in Afghanistan.


13 posted on 10/28/2007 4:05:47 PM PDT by Tallguy (Climate is what you plan for, weather is what you get.)
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