Posted on 12/30/2001 3:36:25 PM PST by codebreaker
What the Papers Say-The London Times Monday December 31, 2001 00:03 GMT
WE'LL SURVIVE NUCLEAR WAR, SAYS INDIA
India boasted yesterday that it would survive a first strike by a Pakistani atomic weapon, but its neighbour would be wiped out in a swift nuclear counter attack.
Sounds fine to me.
You're kidding! We don't need this, especially with a manhunt for Osama going on. As long as China stays clear?? Nobody models a nuclear war. (OK, we nuked Japan in '45, but we were the only nuclear power in the world at the time. Escalation and/or spread were not issues.)
Either that, or all this is bluff for domestic political consumption. I'm hoping it's the latter.
I hope and assume that the Bush Administration is telling India in no uncertain terms that an invasion of Pakistan would not be appreciated or supported.
Airstrikes on suspected Kashmiri terrorist bases would be fine. It would actually be helpful. But a frontal assault on the Musharraf government and army would be a reckless and foolish act.
Must be preparing for the radio show tonight.
As for the Indians (oops can we still call them that - oh, yeah, THOSE Indians dont mind!), they are right that they could survive, but it would be a heck of a mess, lots of folks would have to re-enter the wheel of life to pay for past sins and all that.
I expect the Budhists to manufacture a new god for just this occasion! Now that is a flexible belief system.
Will Russia be able to sit this out, or will China and -or Iraq attack them as allies to the WEST?
Will their be any viable muslim nations left after we begin recovery from the World's second major use of nukes in a military conflict, in a world war theatre??? Probably a few. We will target pinpoints with accuracy using tactical nukes. How many free nations of this planet do not already have at least ONE american military outpost with deployable tacticals? I can only guess... not many.
The question is, where will the USA be on this? Our guys are already here, there, everywhere... and we will NOT stand still for any incidental deaths of our guys. Who will WE nuke? China? Pakistan? Iraq? and What about the Israeli's and their alliance with Turkey? Will Turkey and Israel sit on their hands while the Arab/Muslim war of martyrs targets their population centers and infrastructures? Not likely.
We have got us one huge multi-lateral minefield out there right now. How many Al Queda "underground terroristas" are operating here in the USA? Who believes that the alqueda is the only group who wants to do bad things to Freedom lovers Earthwide? Can I see a show of hands who believe they are the only, even the "primary" terorists? I thought not.
Islam. What a great world religion? The whack-job, Muslim world aches for the end of time when their false god allah, sets the WHOLE world under the legalistic force of their brand of Islam... They have been and currently ARE trying to provoke this end time nightmare scenario. They are self-fulfilling prophets of doom. I think they will be both surprised and terrified by the outcome. Allah will not save them.
Truth is, I don't think their god is going to pull it off for them. Can I see another show of hands who believes THEIR phony god is going to save them? What, no takers? I think we all know that they will fry without mercy, along with their sand-piles rife with camel dung all too soon.
The UN and the hidden alliances of terror may not survive in any viable fashion. This may indeed precipitate a complete re-alignment of the world's pecking order under the principles of democracy, led by the USA as a pattern and cheif enforcer. Religious "theocracy" prophets of doom will not make it into the middle of this next century. Freedom of speech may not be the same thing as, freedom of insanity...
Maybe we can then get on with 1000 years of pax americana. It can all fit a "biblical pattern," for the Western/Christian mindset, howbeit not the way the glory hallers may have thought...
I think they are gonna "just push play" as per Steven Tyler's latest release... "we're goin' in, we're goin'!!!"
I wish not, but I think so, the pot is boiling over.
It's gonna catch fire soon.
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