Indian/Pakistan Situation: What does this mean for the U.S.?

[redstate_democrat]

If India gets aggressive with Pakistan, what does this mean for the U.S. as both of them are sort of our allies, right? (The fact that many U.S. businesses do lots of business/offshoring to India, I'm sure corporate America is leaning on our politicos in Washington to get "tough" with Pakistan, i.e. start talking like Condi did today.)

I understand that Pakistan has threatened to move its troops off the Afghan/Pakistani border, where Al Q has reconstituted itself, to the India/Pakistani border. What the hell does this do besides heighten tensions and also leave our troops open to possible slaughter with no supply routes.

is it possible the Pakistanis are orchestrating this whole damn thing? Maybe they (Pakistanis) needed an excuse to move troops to the Indian/Pakistani border without pissing off the U.S. gov too much? Maybe they heard Obama talking about striking inside of Pakistan and thought, hell, we'll give him something else to worry about now? We'll make it harder for their supplies to get inside Afghanistan. I mean, it's come out that the ISI had its hand in this some kind of way. They had to know what kind of predicament this would place us in.

Also, why do these terrorist attack financial centers all the time? Is it because they hate our freedoms or because they hate our religion? (humor me)

[tekisui]

1. IMO, it is India's official welcome to the War on Terra.

They started blaming Pakistan while the gunmen were still firing. The info coming out has been inconsistent. They have blamed 3 different organizations, all form Pakistan. They are talking tough and the rhetoric is escalating.

Petreus said that any action in Pakistan would have to go through India. I don't know who was behind it, but I fear it will be exploited to open the next chapter of the waronterra, with India and the US involved in another unwinnable confrontation in Pakistan.

The Taliban has offered a truce with the Pakistan military to assist in fighting India, if needed. Things will only get worse.

[KharmaTrain]

2. Always Through The American Filter...

The typical framing of the corporate media..."what does this mean for the U.S.", as if what we do is more important and that every event in the world is somehow done either for our amusement or affect.

The first thing would be for people to learn about the political and cultural situation the people in those countries face. Fingers are quick to point at Pakistan as if this is some systemic, homogenous region or country...it's not, and neither is India. Many foreign reports focused on the rising frustrations among young Muslims within India who have turned to radical groups. It'd be like there's an attack in this country, the attackers speak Spanish, thus we must assume it's come from the Mexican government. It's playing simple games, trying to get an easy narrative out of a complicated situation.

It's bad enough our media believes that anytime there's an international incident, somehow Al Queda is tied in...or how they focus on the American deaths over the many more locals who died...again, myopia and arrogance...it's the ingredients that easily allowed the sheeple to believe in WMDs and evil Saddam...and we saw how well that worked.

Surprisingly the world existed and solved problems before there was a United States...and right now this country is in no fiscal or moral position to do much of anything other than get our troops out of Iraq and start mending fences.