Because a democracy with human rights has nukes, a totalitarian backwards ****hole must have them as well? That's like saying because responsible people have guns, insane people must also have a guns. What sense does your position make. Beside, if the Indian government took control of Pakistan, Pakistanis would be far better off.
So, why does India having nukes necessitate Pakistan having them?
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Because
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Is that in reference to India? LOL. Human rights my foot.
b)
That's just about the dumbest thing in this thread
c) Because the only reason India isn't steamrolling into Pakistan, taking the Kashmir and other regions, is because both are nuclear powers. If one were to have the bombs and the other wouldn't, the one with the nukes would have a formidable advantage in that, it would be dominant over the tensions that they have. Pakistan would take a lot of territory that they see as "theirs", not just the kashmir region, the gujarat region IIRC is also on the table, and viceversa, if India would have nukes and Pakistan wouldn't they'd probably do what you think is the "good" thing and annex all of pakistan, bit by bit, not in one go. Salami tactics to make sure the rest of the world wouldn't care too much.
So the only way to avoid war is to have both of them have nukes.
And if you take India's nukes away, well, China will roll in and take a few regions that it squabbles over with India. And same for Pakistan.
Even easier to pass the blame.
Tell me, how has American involvement helped the war on terror?
Please list all the massacres of school children by the Taliban BEFORE the US started drone bombing?
I would suggests that "journalists" know a **** of a lot more than you, they at least cite sources, you have laid out a page of uniformed and unsubstantiated opinion against journalists in country, on scene who have been reporting backlash for over a year.
You seem to be under the impression that I am siding with the taliban, I'm not, I'm just explaining why the USA is not at fault here and why this can't be blamed on the USA.
If you think this is because of drone strikes, then you're wrong, this has been going on for decades. Yes, the drone strikes aren't helping to calm the population, but that's not the issue here because the pakistani officials aren't interested in that either. If the pakistani govt would be interested in making peace or being "fair" to the minorities in their country, there would be no need for drone strikes against the taliban.
The issue is that the pakistani talibans are fighting because their people, the pashtun, are mistreated by the islamabad regime. They have little or no representation, they're treated as second class citizens even though they're muslims, well, other religious groups like christians and shia have it way worse but w/e, and they seek cultural union with Afghanistan. And no, that doesn't mean that they want democracy and cultural union, they just want union with afghanistan.
It's easy where you're an american "journalist" to have an ameri-centric perspective. And it's wrong. The abuses of the islamabad regime are far more reaching than drone strikes. It's adding wood to the fire, it helps keep it alive. It doesn't start the fire.
Now, the wars are a different story, the war in afghanistan in particular, that's a whole different story.
