Posted on 05/15/2025 6:43:41 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
A joke circulating on social media suggests how President Trump could arrest terrorism against Indian Kashmir by jihadist groups based in Pakistan—a country that at its worst actively arms and shelters these terrorists, and at its most benign turns a blind eye. Let Mr. Trump open a large resort in Kashmir, the joke goes. Give him rent-free land on a long lease for golf courses and ski lodges—and then watch how quickly the terrorism falls off.
Humor aside, Mr. Trump has helped to calm the region and scored his first major diplomatic achievement. On April 22, terrorists said by India to have come from Pakistan shot dead 26 civilians in Pahalgam, a bucolic resort in Kashmir 125 miles from the de facto border between India and Pakistan. (The ability of the terrorists to penetrate so deep into India is proof of their murderous sophistication and of the weakness of India’s military intelligence.) India retaliated by launching missile attacks on terrorist redoubts in Pakistan on May 7. An armed confrontation broke out between the two nuclear-armed countries—more intense than a skirmish yet too circumscribed to be called a war—before a U.S.-brokered cease-fire brought an end to the fighting on May 10.
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“Mr. Trump has helped to calm the region and scored his first major diplomatic achievement.”
The Abraham Accords wasn’t a major diplomatic achievement?
It was.
And so was sitting down with Kim Jong Un and later crossing into N. Korea with Kim Jong Un again.
The Potato Puppet squandered it all.
Because war is bad ok?
It is not the worst thing, but it is a bad thing.
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