Posted on 12/22/2008 9:01:06 PM PST by Flavius
NEW DELHI, Dec. 22 -- In signs of growing regional tension since the Mumbai attacks last month, Pakistan scrambled fighter jets over several of its larger cities Monday, and India's foreign minister told a gathering of Indian diplomats in New Delhi that the country is keeping all its options open to bring the perpetrators of the attacks to justice.
"We have so far acted with utmost restraint," Pranab Mukherjee told the more than 120 envoys from posts around the world, according to news reports. But he added, "We will take all measures necessary as we deem fit to deal with the situation."
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It is time to be rocking the Casbah.
Should we star a pool as to when the war will start? January 5 sounds good to me. Before Obama is crowned as king.
Notice how relevent Asif Ali Zardari is to Pakistan? War seems likely in the next few months.
Which side are we going to be on...
Right after the next attack and there will be one.
India should start by air dropping the bodies of the dead terrorists back on Pak soil , telling them that the rotting corpses of these scurrilous curs will not be planted in Indian soil . Throw them over the proverbial walls ,as the Mongols used to do.
Pak needs to WAKE UP !
When we see all the terrorists that they aid and abet hanging from lamp poles and see their supporters gunned down ,en mass,
when they protest the tough treatment of the radical moslem
rectal openings , I will then believe that Pakistan is on the right road. Not until .
Gawd. Paquistan needs to be PARTITIONED into 3 countries. That would shut up the Punjabi military’s arrogance. the US would gain 2 more helpful and eager allies other than the Punjabi’s who started teh Taliban.
The Pakistani AF is no match for the Indian AF. Its not clear the USAF is up to the Indian AF.
I forget, someone remind me, when in history has restraint ever worked with mohammedans, never mind utmost restraint?
0bama’s big test my be a nuclear war between India and Pakistan.
If India does attack, which is very unlikely, the LET has gone to ground, it will do so with “cruise” type missiles, not aircraft.
Really??!!
I really don't know; never thought about it, actually. I guess I just assumed that since their police were under gunned, their military couldn't be THAT great. Certainly not on par with ours, anyway.
I'd be interested to know what makes you say this.
(And I'm REALLY asking. Not being snarky at all.)
You’ve got to be kidding.
There have been exercises where they flew against each other with scary results for the USAF. One article is here: http://www.defensetech.org/archives/000976.html Google for more on what happened and on follow on events. Quite bluntly the IAF is scary good.
This is due in part to the way they select their fighter pilots. Every Indian pilot starts out in something other than fighters and has to earn their way into a fighter squadron. On average they have more hours per pilot than USAF and every one of them is an equivalent to a Top Gun grad.
What people forget is that in Mumbai, it was the police for the most part, not the army.
hmmmm.. Lets see. Pakistan is behind approximately 70% of the worlds Islamic terrorism, while India is a victim of Islamic terrorism. I guess if you like terrorists you would side with Pakistan. Otherwise the choice is pretty obvious.
Well, I was just wondering, since we’re giving so much money to the Pakistan military and since we don’t want the nuclear weapons to get directly into terrorist hands...
So, when will we take out their nukes? Obviously this will drive Pakistan (most likely) over into terrorist hands (as far as running the government and having control over the nukes), if we take the side of India...
There is this special by NatGeoIndia. Heard it was pretty good...
National Geographic’s Highly Acclaimed Mission Udaan was a joint project ...
www.bharat-rakshak.com/IAF/Links.html - 16k - Cached - Similar pages
Google search phrase - national geographic Indian Air Force
Seems that action is coming. The question is how far they will go.
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