Business Insider: India unleashes its military on Pakistan after a terror attack stoked the feud between the nuclear rivals
* Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday unleashed the country's military against rival Pakistan in response to a terror attack by Muslim separatists that killed 44 on Thursday.
* Modi said his country's "blood boils" and gave his military a "free hand" to determine "the timing, place and nature of their response."
* India and Pakistan have been bitter rivals for years, and both countries have built nuclear arsenals to hold each other at bay.
* Modi unleashing the military has been called an "abdication of political responsibility" that could lead to a "super dangerous" conflict between the nuclear rivals.
Indian Prime Minister Narenda Modi on Friday unleashed the country's military against rival Pakistan in response to a terror attack by Muslim separatists that killed 44 on Thursday.
"I know there is deep anger, your blood boils looking at what has happened. At this moment, there are expectations and the feelings of a strong response which is quite natural," Modi said in a speech mourning the police forces killed and those injured.
India regularly accuses Pakistan of training and arming militants and smuggling them across the border into the Indian region of Kashmir, a Muslim-majority region on the countries' shared border.
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Update: India vows 'crushing response' to attack on troops in Kashmir (TRT)
WNU Editor: This crisis can definitely get out of hand .... Why Kashmir attack could spark a military confrontation in South Asia (Shamil Shams, DW).
6 comments:
I wonder how the MSM will spin this to being Trumps fault.
"I have been following U.S. foreign policy experts for decades, especially on those whose focus is on armed conflicts. How both of these men are still considered foreign policy experts and experts on armed conflicts is beyond me. I gave up on following and listening to Bill Kristol a long time ago, but
I am skeptical that India or Pakistan are going to launch military strikes against targets like Jaish al-Adl (Army of Justice) in Pakistan. "
It is easy to be wrong.
It is why I did not contradict WNU when he said he was skeptical about strikes by India and Iran. Hard to say. I still believe that if one strikes the other will openly strike.
Since Pakistan is an 'ally' (air quotes), does the US have to go to war with India if India attacks Pakistan?
I do not believe it does. I do not believe it will. I do not believe it should.
But whatever happens it will be Trumps's fault. Queue up the nutbags of CNN & MSNBC.
The us stopped referring to Pakistan as an allie long ago
Fazman,
That is probably true. But for the sake of a supply line we do not label them enemies, which is what they are.
IMHO it is best to leave Afghanistan and let the perfidious Pakistanis & others reap the whirlwind.
Just say we are not retreating, but just leaving behind a bunch of backstabbing, no good worthless _____.
Americans don't have time to think about this South Asia nonsense. Don't you know there is currently a "National Emeregency" in the US right now!?!
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