----- Original Message ----- From: "Ritu Ko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, October 06, 2002 10:33 PM Subject: RE: U.S. drops leaflets warning Iraq of counterattack
> I mean, look at what happened in 1947/8 and '71 - India won both the > wars decisively and convincingly....was stupidly magnanimous in victory. > So '48 gave birth to the Kashmir problem and in '71 Bhutto declared a > 1000 year jihad against India. Right after he came back from Shimla, > before descending from the plane even. :) Well, I won't argue against your examples, but I am thinking of a much more decisive win than that. All of Germany and Japan were under the control of the winners of WWII. Pakistan wasn't after those two wars. Indeed, I'd argue that there were more similarities to Germany after WWI and Iraq after the Gulf War than to WWII. I'm not really faulting India on this, they had constraints, like those on Israel after they won their wars, and like those on the US during the Cold War. However, they did not have the same type of total control after the war that, say, the US did in Japan after WWII. I agree, BTW, that India would have been a better ally than Pakistan for the US. Whatever the disagreements may have been from our standpoint, it was a democracy. Its my understanding that India pretty well chose the USSR as its patron and the US got Pakistan by default. Do you know differently? Dan M. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
