[painter]

you may recall that recently they nearly went to war over Kashmir and it was only narrowly averted.

I just telling my 20yr son who was reading this with me about how they almost started a nuclear war with each other. Bush quietly sent Rumsfield over there to explain to them what would happen to each other if that happened. You know what? The crises quietly disappeared. Rumsfield must have spun quite a realistic scenario to make it go away.

Talk about a Legacy, Bush without fanfare probably stopped the destruction of two large countries and the deaths of over a billion people.

[MunnaP]

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Talk about a Legacy, Bush without fanfare probably stopped the destruction of two large countries and the deaths of over a billion people.

to be frank with you ...Americans tend to overrate their role in that theater of conflict...

[Gengis Khan]

Firstly it wasn't Rumsfield. It was the pro-Pak and anti-India Collin Powell and before him Richard Armitage. It was only to save the skin of America's favourite ally that Collin Powell and Richard Armitage came rushing to India when India was about to incinarate Pakistan after the Parliament was attacked. Armitage promised that he (his government) would personally make sure Pakistan would completely get rid of the terrorist infrastructure operating on its soil. He even patted on his pocket in front of the camera that he got a written assurance from Musharraf in that regard. Its was all just a scam meant to appease an angry India. Armitage (or US) never delivered on the promise.

Rumsfield had hardly any role to play in that conflict.