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| McCain predicts India-Pakistan war |
| 2008-12-08 |
| Defeated US Presidential Candidate John McCain says India will attack Pakistan if it fails to act against those involved in the Mumbai raids. McCain, who is on a two-day visit to Pakistan, outspokenly told a group of reporters in Pakistan's Lahore that Indian Premier Manmohan Singh was visibly angry about the killings and damage to property in the Mumbai terrorist attacks. "The democratic government of India is under pressure and it will be a matter of days after they have given the evidence to Pakistan to use the option of force if Islamabad fails to act against the terrorists," Pakistan's Daily Times quoted him, as saying on Sunday. The Arizona Senator stressed that if Pakistan does not do anything to find and arrest the 'bad guys', India will have no option but to use force. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #8 Pragmatically, wid RUSSIA realigning and deploying new milfors to its own CAUCASIA-SOUTH, + CHINA doing same to its West and South vee the UIGHURS, TIBET, MYANMAR, TRI-NATION LOC,etc, basically it leaves attacking INDIA + SOUTHEAST ASIA as Radical Islam's singular "best option/choice" amongst RUSSIA, CHINA, INDIA in the near term. NUCLEAR INDIA > viewed as the weakest of "ASIA'S BIG 3" wid a host of differentiated Militant-Terror-Anarchist Groups already well-established domestically. ISLAMIST IRAN > essens a strategic, PCorrect "BLOCK/ANCHOR" on one end, wid Radical Islam counting on normal "GREAT POWER" GEOPOLITICS = MILPOL CONFRONTATIONISM on the other end, to keep the US-Allies at bay. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2008-12-08 18:49 |
| #7 Isn't that 48 hours from the weekend about up???? |
| Posted by: USN, Ret. 2008-12-08 14:21 |
| #6 From Fox: ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — DEVELOPING: Pakistan's military says operations against militants are under way following the Mumbai attacks. A military statement released late Monday says the operations are "intelligence-led" and target banned militant organizations. It says arrests have been made, but gives no more details. It is not clear whether the operations detailed in the statement include a raid on Sunday that targeted a camp run by Lashkar-e-Taiba, the group blamed for plotting and carrying out last month's attacks on Mumbai. |
| Posted by: Thealing Borgia 122 2008-12-08 12:30 |
| #5 Restrain assumes control. I don't have confidence in the Pakistani ability to control all of its forces given a legitimate threat to their heartland. I don't have confidence in their ability to keep a full-scale conventional war, well, conventional. |
| Posted by: Mitch H. 2008-12-08 12:14 |
| #4 The problem with the US threatening retaliation for the launch of nukes is that, hey, you have to actually back it up with action when the Pakis launch (or attempt to) anyway. Which makes you the "bad guy" somehow, trust me. I'm not really clear on the thought processes of suicidal Islamic idiots, sorry. |
| Posted by: mojo 2008-12-08 12:12 |
| #3 Not too long ago, I was told by an Indian military type that India regards Pakistan as an "annoying gnat". This is actually a good thing, because India has no designs at all on capturing anything Pakistani. Any war will be up to Pakistan to start, and India to finish. The US then becomes the critical player, because it makes it abundantly clear to both sides that nuclear weapons will not be used. This sets the stage for them both to have a little blow off, with their warmongers having at each other for a while. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2008-12-08 08:38 |
| #2 she didn't mean anything. she knows by the time this finally comes too ahead she won't have too worry about it anymore |
| Posted by: sinse 2008-12-08 08:22 |
| #1 She warned that the "US will act if Pakistan did not". I'ma wondering what, exactly, Condie meant by that. |
| Posted by: Verlaine 2008-12-08 02:55 |