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Originally Posted by SeijiSensei
I've been surprised that we haven't seen an outbreak of serious hostilities between Pakistan and India since the 1965 War. Nuclear deterrence has helped to maintain stability just like it did in the Cold War. Nevertheless Pakistan, and agencies like the ISI in particular, seem obsessed with India. Their support of the Taliban is, as Kissinger says, designed to prevent encirclement were India and Afghanistan to concert their interests against Pakistan. I can't say whether this obsession is based on a realistic Indian threat, but I frankly don't see much that either side here has to gain from an all-out war.
Were war to break out between India and Pakistan it would endanger the lives of billions of people and involve all the "usual suspects" in an unpredictable and thus extraordinarily dangerous crisis. At a minimum, the US, UK, Russia, China, and Iran would be drawn in, and possibly Israel and the rest of NATO as well. I don't even want to contemplate the horror of a nuclear exchange that would spread radioactive contamination across much of Asia and Oceania and potentially around the world.
Despite all the attention we lavish on the Middle East, we should be turning our focus further southeast toward where the real danger lies.
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Southeast Asia? You mean where I live?
Honestly speaking, our place has those terrorists lying in wait fo too long that the people and the governments have be getting real complacent. A few auxiliary security personnel I know of complained that they don't get enough training, are told to rely on textbook profiling, and are told by their bosses to suck up to the clients, even to the extent of abandoning proper vehicle and bag checks so "their clients can get back on their business and not sue their company".
I wonder how they are going to go up against a car with its insides lined with makeshift cooking-oil doused blankets sandwiched between ceramic floor tiles, held together by masking tape, with their .38 revolvers and 9mm MP5s. Even a Remington 870 shotgun would have a better chance of injuring the driver.