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India-Pakistan
Bush bears down on Pakistan while trying to defuse the tensions
2001-12-30
  • Pakistan faced fresh US pressure to round up Islamic extremists accused of targeting India as its top military brass planned its response to any Indian attack across their tense border. President Bush has called on Pakistan to "eliminate extremists" implicated in an attack on India's parliament and urged leaders to defuse their dispute. In separate phone calls from his Texas ranch to Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, Bush "urged both leaders to work to reduce tensions in the region." But he specifically called on Musharraf to act decisively against groups seeking to "harm India, undermine Pakistan, and provoke a war between India and Pakistan and destabilize the coalition against terrorism."
    If Boskone/Ernst Stavro Blofeld/The Learned Elders of Islam had been able to set up a three-front war (Afghanistan, India-Pak, and Middle East) they'd have been closer to their Muslim-Western world war. But when Tora Bora fell they found themselves overextended. Israel could handle the Palestinians and had world opinion on its side for once and temporarily. And India-Pak as a single front would result in Pakland being defeated and maybe even reabsorbed back into India - a three-falls-out-of-three defeat for the Bad Guys. Now they're stuck with ISI, which is probably as much of a rogue organization within SPECTRE/Boskone as it is within the Pak government.
    • Posted by:Fred Pruitt

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