Reply #10: That is precisely it. [View All]

[cosmicone]

While India is obtaining a credible deterrent against the regional bully China, Pakistan is trying to catch up with India for no reason other than ego.

India is geographically 7 times larger, in population 6 times bigger and in economy 90 folds stronger but Pakistan desperately tries to pretend that India and Pakistan are equals. The world has been fooled too many times by the posturing and the average Joe, Josip, Giuseppe, Josef thinks that the two countries are somehow equal.

Indians and Indian-Americans finally got rid of the India|hyphen|Pakistan foreign policy during the Clinton years and W (despite all his faults) continued it by successfully inking the Indo-US Nuclear Cooperation Agreement which gives India a de facto "nuclear weapons state" status with the big five, leaving Pakistan to be a little tinpot fiefdom full of hate which it is.

Pakistan exists because it is funded by the US -- without it, it will balkanize and won't be able to maintain any nuclear or missile program at all.

We must work to stop ALL aid to Pakistan until it gets rid of its terrorist apparatus and cuts down its military ambitions for good.