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2006-08-12 India-Pakistan

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Posted by Steve White 2006-08-12 00:00|| || Front Page|| [8 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 In the late 1990s, India set up a 25-bed hospital at Farkhor, near Afghanistan's northern border, where injured Northern Alliance fighters battling the Taliban were treated.

It was to this Indian hospital the injured Ahmad Shah Masood was brought after the attack on 9/10.

Posted by john 2006-08-12 06:43|| 2006-08-12 06:43|| Front Page Top

#2 This is India's practical way of becoming a de facto member of the Security Council. The criteria are that you must be a major economic and nuclear military power, *and* that you must be able and willing to project those forces.

From that point on, it doesn't matter if you have a seat on the UNSC, you are part of it anyway. You are a player. Even if the rest of the Security Council want to do something, they have to ask your permission first.

Eventually, the major international players will probably have a joint standing army, each under their own flag, stationed at strategic points around the globe. Probably two in Africa and two in Oceania, possibly Indonesia or Malaysia.

Posted by Anonymoose 2006-08-12 11:41|| 2006-08-12 11:41|| Front Page Top

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