[Lucas1]

Quote "WASHINGTON: American diplomacy in the sub-continent has moved into high-gear amid reports – denied by Washington – that the United States is drawing up contingency plans to evacuate nearly 65,000 Americans from the region. "

Ummm well I HOPE THEY ARE DRAWING UP PLANS? Why deny something like this? Surely they have plans to get the Americans out...if not then they are fools (and I know that is not the case) so...they are lying

[maquiladora]

I watched the News Conference on Fox about an hour ago.

Don said that they have plans in place for these types of events at all times, he also, and more interestingly, said that if there was to be a evacuation that should not signal that a war was inevitable.

But I don't think there will be a war. India had their chance earlier in the year, but caved in to pressure from the International Community.

It's just a lot of rhetoric and postering thats going on now, India is trying to frighten the world into taking notice of the region so that pressure will be put on Musharraf to make movements regarding Kashmir.

This will all be forgotten about in a week or two, I've been following events very closely since Dec 2001 and I doubt very very much if there will any major conflict anytime soon.