[ravager]

There is absolutely no way US could have convinced India to join the war against Iraq on the pretext of Iraq harboring Al Quaida when Pakistan was actually harboring Al Quaida terrorists and Bin Laden all along and was carried out terrorist attacks against India while the US had not only turned a blind eye to that but was arming and financing Pakistan. People here usually don't think that angle when they wonder why Indian would never join US war in Iraq.

[Jeff Head]

I know...and I do not believe India was needed for what we did in Iraq anyway. We got the job done, even though Obama has ended it prematurely. The US needs to make sure the Pakistani nukes do not fall into fundamentalist Islamic hands. That’s the only reason we have anything to do with them and we should have ended that a long time ago.

There’s a lot of Pakis who do not want the fundis/radicals in charge and they fight them too...but we need to figure out a way to take care of their nuclear weapons. I am sure there are all sorts of contingencies written up and hopefully some day the opportunity will present itself.

But, all said, that is the real “gotcha” about Pakistan and nothing more.

[kearnyirish2]

India would also have to explain it to the 10% of their billion+ people who are Muslim (nearly as many as Pakistan has). India knew the world had nothing to fear from Iraq.