Why would we want to prevent that?
India will recover and no rational being will miss Pakistan.
If there is a stupider solution, the State Department will find it.
I don’t like this game. Too many crazies on the Paki side.
so we rewarded them, for their nuclear blackmail of us?!?
...and this will never happen again?
(how is this different, that paying off Somali pirates, when they capture ships?
...we’ve been paying off Muslim’s for their threats, since Jefferson and Adams were sent to find a solution, about the Barbary pirates. the solution was the Marines, “to the shores of Tripoli”. not payoffs to threats.
what happened to “millions for defense, not a penny for tribute” ???
F16s do a lot very well.
But India has F-15s and that sort of is game set and match.
Typical Muslim behavior. Threaten somebody else and then call yourself the victim...and ask the US to come to your defense, which it virtually always does because it is afraid of alienating you and becoming the target of your next attack.
This, of course, happens anyway. But we can see that it’s a pretty successful strategy for any Islamic country (or even group, as in Bosnia).