So would you support an invasion/assistance force for Pakistan? I would.
> -----Original Message----- > From: Judah McAuley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, September 28, 2007 3:42 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: Iran > > Pssst...Pakistan, as a whole, is not the most pro-American country in > the world. Musharraf essentially signed a peace agreement with the > ungovernable parts of the country that are actively hiding the very > people that were responsible for the September 11th attacks. He himself > is an unelected military dictator that has forced out previous Prime > Ministers that might challenge his rule. You think that's a happier, > more stable situation than Iran? > > Oh and Pakistan and India do have a history of threatening to wipe out > neighboring countries. Each other. In fact, they have been pulled back > from the brink of all out warfare (with nuclear weapons in play) > several > times. Low level skirmishes and armed hostilities between the two occur > on a daily basis. I would argue that you are more likely to see nuclear > weapons used in that region than you are in Iran. That is one of those > bets, however, that is not one you want to lose, so I agree that the > world needs to do the best job it can keeping nuclear weapons from > proliferating. Anywhere. > > Judah > > Robert Munn wrote: > > Your calculus assumes that Iran will never start a war on its own, > and that > > diplomacy has a snowball's chance in hell of working. > > > > NK, Pakistan, and India have the bomb, but none of their leaders > stand on a > > platform chanting "Death to America" on a daily basis. None of their > leaders > > regularly deny historical acts of genocide or threaten to wipe out > > neighboring countries. The most hostile is NK, and the only reason > Kim Jong > > Il is still in power is that he has the backing of the Chinese (who > fear > > American military power and Korean democracy on their borders) and > enough > > artillery to detroy Seoul and kill hundreds of thousands of people in > any > > conflict. Basically, he is holding the South Koreans hostage, which > is what > > the Iranians want to do to the Middle East and, by extension, the > rest of > > the world via the oil supply. You think that is an acceptable > scenario? BS. > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Enterprise web applications, build robust, secure scalable apps today - Try it now ColdFusion Today ColdFusion 8 beta - Build next generation apps Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:243435 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
