Should America ditch Pakistan for India?

[Drake Tungsten]

Nevermind...

[Wezil]

Meh. He's confrontational by nature. I get that.

I just wish his manners were a little better.

edit: a humorous x-post proving the point.

[Wezil]

Nice edit Drake.

Where are your balls? Leave it up. Come on.

[Drake Tungsten]

I realized my post was too harsh considering you're a foreigner and probably don't understand English very well.

[Wezil]

These are the reasons why I don't care if you call me a ******. I consider the source and carry on.

[SlowwHand]

He speaks remarkably like KH, which is odd given his animosity at even KH. Notice the "******" of Drake vs. "****" by KH? I have to be honest, I realize that if I call someone a stupid mother-****er, that sounds crass. Calling someone a ******, or ****, is not only crass but also certainly less than compassionate for people with challenges, through no fault of their own. To me the person using that language is the ****, not the challenged individual.

[Felch]

You're a ****, Sloww.

[Drake Tungsten]

He really is.

[Whoha]

Don't forget Venezuela, the CIA just took an excellent potshot at Obama in Copenhagen.

[HalfLotus]

Here are a couple pages about recent tension (past few months).

This is pretty clearly a Chinese perspective.

The Times has a more pro-Indian angle.

Those articles about Indian foreign relations would pull a little more weight if they weren't written by Brits and Australians. Indian and Chinese publications tell a slightly different story.

I'm not suggesting that India and China are best buds, "fairly cozy" is the term I used. However I think some of our comedically rude peers are still thinking in old world order terms.

In the new world order, India and China are the core of the eastern economic bloc that will face off against the evil western "capitalists".

Russia otoh, has been lax about Afghanistan and Pakistan, but they are fighting back in Eastern Europe against NATO - Georgia was a clear case of striking back against the color revolutions organized by the CIA's NED, along with Soros, Zbig, and co.

Putin routinely uses language like "no more unipolar world". Russia is also aligning with Americas "enemies" economically - namely Iran and N Korea.

The USA will go down with a very big bang, not with the current whimpering.

[KrazyHorse]

I merely pointed out that your claim that "the US had been frozen out of oil contracts" was false.

I made no such claim, you ****ing moron. I said the US was "shut out", ie. didn't win any contracts. That's exactly what happened, you utter ****ing ******.

Jesus, you're almost as bad as KH...

I would avoid bringing up the spanking I just gave you, ****.

[Imran Siddiqui]

A good 40%-50% of the population says they support them too plus they've repeatedly tried to militarily expand outside of the frontier areas so I wouldn't call an Islamist take over out of the question in Pakistan.

The last election results would call into question those numbers or an Islamist takeover.

[Drake Tungsten]

I would avoid bringing up the spanking I just gave you, ****.

It surely was a spanking. I simply can't match wits with someone who doesn't even recognize the obvious opportunity costs involved with controlling a quarter of the globe...

[Drake Tungsten]

****.

[KrazyHorse]

I would avoid bringing up the spanking I just gave you, ****.

It surely was a spanking. I simply can't match wits with someone who doesn't even recognize the obvious opportunity costs involved with controlling a quarter of the globe...

Colonialism was a bit different back then than US military adventurism is today. They largely lived off the land they controlled, you ignoramus.