Neela wrote:
You are saying the USA helped Pakistan be what it is - I am saying why did we NOT threaten and hurt TSP to dissuade them from seeking Amreeki weapons . Relations between Amreekis and us weren't that rosy anyway in the 1970s and 1980s - what did we have to lose?
In the early 1970s the US was in big trouble in Vietnam and voluntarily embraced Pakistan after 1979. India had been doing its darndest for a decade by cosying up to the USSR to the extent of supporting the USSR's intervention in Afghanistan. It was that intervention that the US paid Pakistan to fight, and funded the creation of the Taliban.
You did say that Pakistan is putting up a fight. Now take that statement back to its historic origin. Pakistan is fighting because the US fully supported Pakistan
and the Taliban. Pakistan supported the Taliban in the 1980s. Pakistan still supports the Taliban. It is only the US that has switched sides.
Now look at the facts:
1. India supported the USSR in Afghanistan. India never changed its stance. India was always against Pakistani/US intervention in Afghanistan.
2. Pakistan supported the Taliban. Pakistan never changed its stance.
3. The US supported the Taliban first and now opposes the Taliban.
The Pakistanis are 100% correct in accusing the US of changing its stance about Pakistan and the Taliban. Indians are supposed to laugh at Pakistan's predicament and cheer the USA. But the US is a dangerous country playing dangerous games. It is arming Pakistan no matter what the Pakis do.
People tell me that the US has changed its stance about India. That is not necessarily good news. The US changes its stance only when its own ass is itching, not for anyone else's benefit. After screwing someone all the US's supporters will say
"Oh why did you expect support from the US. The US works for its own interest". If that is the case what difference does it make whether the US changes its stance or not? It can change yet again no?
All this only means the US cannot and must not be trusted until it stops arming and funding Pakistan. Indian self interest is paramount and not some soft headed sentimentality about the US. If it is in US interest to keep arming Pakistan it will remain in Indian interest to make sure that both the US and Pakistan are screwed in the long term. If the two countries get into a fight nothing like it. We need to lie to the Paki ba$tards and tell them that we love them and support them and that the US is a double crossing country and that they are slaves who have been hoodwinked. Which is true. If it gets the Pakis more angry so be it. The Pakis and the US must fight. That is great for India. More drone attacks. More internal terrorism. More coalition forces blown up. That is what is needed. Let the US and Pakistan slug it out.