dan
2008-12-01 08:29:47
pakistan is the geostrategic black hole. india will be dragged in, one way or another; the more atrocities, the more the present government will lose legitimacy, the more an anti-Pakistan, pro-war faction will prevail. tactically, it seems like the most India could do would be to send in troops through kashmir, blackout the media, and do what needs to be done. on the other hand, if they intended a real conquest of pakistan they would be doing everyone a gigantic favor from which india could really take its place as a strategic bulwark of Anglophone modernity in Asia.
there’s going to be pain either way. pakistan is not going to be a soluble problem. something drastic must be done.
