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To: Dog Gone
What remains is that India must take action if Musharraf doesn't. If that means war against the Pak army I believe India will not wait for more attacks. They need to neutralize the threat at their border not occupy the country. You seem to be saying that India will not. As we have found out, if no action is taken the threat and reality of attacks grows.
42 posted on 05/30/2002 9:13:08 AM PDT by Ender@Game.now
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To: Ender@Game.now
All I'm saying is that whatever India chooses to do, it had better be calculated to solve the problem that sparks the action.

The Indians generally are stating that Pakistan must stop terrorist infiltrators. If so, why are they rejecting Musharraf's suggestion of international monitors along the border? That seems like a positive suggestion to me.

The Indians have nearly a million men on the border right now, and apparently some terrorists are getting through, or were until very recently. I don't understand how destroying the army facing it makes that border less porous. It's a huge border, and without something like the Berlin Wall in place, I don't know how anyone can truly seal it from a determined terrorist.

I spend a lot of time on these threads talking about what India can't do or shouldn't do, but one thing I think they OUGHT to do is to accept Musharraf's offer of the international observers along the LoC. That would have the effect of internationalizing that line as a border. Maybe it would eventually result in a DMZ. In either event, it should cut down or eliminate cross-border terrorism, and it would have the psychological effect on the Pakistani public of a new and permanent border in Kashmir.

That is far better than what is essentially two armies facing each other over a border that neither officially recognizes.

43 posted on 05/30/2002 9:31:05 AM PDT by Dog Gone
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