India and Pakistan should stop playing with fire
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India and Pakistan should stop playing with fire
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Re: India and Pakistan should stop playing with fire
#2Seems interesting, but I got paywalled. :(
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#4India and Pakistan are like two chimpanzees hurling turds at each other in a cage of a zoo. Really cute. I wonder if it's ever going to end, though.
Re: India and Pakistan should stop playing with fire
#5Seems interesting, but I got paywalled. :(
Disabling JS did the trick for me.
Re: India and Pakistan should stop playing with fire
#6India isn't playing with fire. India has a clear no first use policy.
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#7I don't get this article. Pakistan's reprehensible support for terrorism started this conflict, but it's all Mr. Modi's fault because they don't like his politics?
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#8One thing that may have changed the calculus for India being more aggressive in it's bombing is that US backing of Pakistan in a conflict with India is no longer a given. Given the covert if not overt Pakistani support for Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan, as well as that Bin Laden was found hiding in Pakistan, I doubt there is any substantial support in the US population for Pakistan over against India. Many Americans have a much higher affinity toward India (world's largest democracy, a modernizing economy, home to many tech companies) and than toward Pakistan. In addition, it seems that Modi and Trump have a much better relationship, and probably have a similar view of the world, than Trump and Pakistan's president.
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#9Yes indeed! India should pay heed to an opinion hit-piece authored by a citizen of the West with no connection to on-the-ground reality in Indian Kashmir, or India.
The truth is patently simple: Pakistan's ISI (it's version of CIA) provides direct financial, logistic, and strategic cover for terrorists who target and kill Indians, routinely. How exactly does any country deal with this?
I don't remember the economist publishing outrage over US' take-out of Osama Bin Laden, what's different here? Is it that the victim country differs from the author's home?
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#10India and Pakistan are like two chimpanzees hurling turds at each other in a cage of a zoo. Really cute. I wonder if it's ever going to end, though.
One of the chimpanzees directly supports terrorist groups that kills the other, and both are nuclear-armed. I feel like you're talking with complete ignorance of the situation. To call the situation "really cute" is horrible.