Please enlighten us mortals, how exactly is the idea stupid.
> Please enlighten us mortals, how exactly is the idea stupid.
(groan) A self-apparent truth shouldn’t need spelling out, but let’s look at your stupid idea anyrate:
>> Our Government should get out of Pakistan and let India deal with it.
Why is this a stupid idea? Let us count the ways:
1) Pakistan is an ally of the US in the WOT and its current government is hanging on by a thread
2) America does not need any more enemies in the Muslim world: you have more than plenty already, and certainly more than you are able to deal with in a timely fashion
3) Pakistan is nuclear-capable and would not mind test-driving its nukes. India would love to respond in kind. Nuclear war would be the certain outcome of a clash between the two, and most people believe that would be highly undesirable. I do
4) India attacking Pakistan would not solve the particular problem outlined in the story
5) If the Pakistan / India tensions were as easy as “letting India deal with it” they would have been resolved years ago, long before Americans looked at their atlas and discovered Pakistan (that’s the country to the upper-left of India, the funny-shaped one to the right of Afghanistan)
6) You’ll never catch Bin Laden or any other of the al Qaeda bad-heads hiding out in Pakistan if America withdraws support for the current government. Truth is, six years on and you’re having enough trouble catching him anyrate, even with the help of the NZ SAS
The list could go on and on and on as to why it’s a stupid idea. I think six reasons are sufficient.
*DieHard*