This tiny kingdom was recently in the news as being the subject of the world's largest book. It is an amazingly remote nation and the last Buddhist kingdom on Earth.
Sure enough, the international scourge of terrorism has reached it; anti-India rebels have placed their camps in Bhutan for years.
Note the "great success" of the Bhutanese army. The actual combat is undoubtedly being conducted by the Indian military, lots of reports of bodies being flown out wrapped in Indian flags and Indian helicopter gunships over Bhutanese territory.
To: CanadianLibertarian
Kickin Bhut!
2 posted on
12/18/2003 5:26:33 PM PST by
mylife
To: CanadianLibertarian
5 posted on
12/18/2003 5:41:26 PM PST by
nuconvert
To: CanadianLibertarian
Large or small if they stand with us they deserve respect.
If they stand against us at the very last they deserve our disgust, future distrust, revulsion and a long wait before we ever come to their aid again.
7 posted on
12/18/2003 5:46:49 PM PST by
SandRat
(Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
To: All
Bhutan is a beautiful country. I hope they can remain independent, but with China on their northern border, and their western neighbor Nepal struggling to defeat a large Marxist rebel contingent, Bhutan is going to see more battles in the years ahead.
To: All
9 posted on
12/18/2003 7:14:09 PM PST by
Bob J
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