KASHMIR.....ARMAGEDDON??
During the Cold War, the US assisted India in building up their nuclear capabilities as a buffer in the region against the Communist yellow horde. China, therefore, did the same with Pakistan, to serve as a buffer against the curry culture.
Russia invaded Afghanistan, and the US swung its military aid to Pakistan, so that they would assist the US in assisting Osama bin Laden in assisting the Taliban against Russia. India, miffed, found China willing to help build their nuclear facilities and bought nuclear arms from them to counteract the nuclear buildup in Pakistan, which was being developed by A. Q. Khan, with CIA funding, technical expertise, and material assistance....Khan becomes a national hero in Pakistan.
Christ!! Why does the US blindly make the same mistake over & over? They beef up some country's military and then, without warning, rebuke them publicly, treating them like a red-headed stepchild, often beefing up that country's enemies at the same time, leaving them in a vacuum, creating a need to seek other allies.....
So what happened next? 9/11, of course.
Well, that dildo Bush immediately hauls off and names Iran as a terrorist state and one of the axis of evil.....Iran, already one of the afore-mentioned red-headed stepchidren, had been pissed off enough to go to Kahn, who'd sell his mother for the right price, not to mention everything the CIA gave him, to the highest bidder.....
Meantime, Tex goes into Afghanistan with six-shooters blazing, going after his one-time allies Osama & the Taliban....the US starts pouring more money into Pakistan.....Pakistan's enemy, India, miffed again, invites China to develop oilfields & pipelines in India.
Tex, still with a couple rounds in his six-shooter, decides that Iraq is the next target of his born-again, neo-con ideals.....Iran, of course, gets even more pissed.....now the US has another military foothold right on their border. So, they start pouring copious amounts of cash into Iraq, funding insurgencies and financing the buildup of Shiite militias.
Iran had been practicing the same tactic with Hamas.....Lo & behold!! All of a sudden, Hamas was legitimately elected to govern the Palestinians, even though 12 of the Hamas elected representatives are still sitting in Israeli jails.
The US threatens to withhold funds to Hamas.....Iran says "So what? we'll keep on funding them ourselves, that's all....and by the way, we intend to blow Israel off the map....." So, the US threatens to sanction Iran....Iran says "So what? we'll sell all our oil to China....after all, they own & run a great portion of the oil facilities here anyway.".....and they start building up their military forces along the Gulf of Oman, across from Djiboudi, where the US already has a military installation set up in the event that they might have to set up a blockade to keep Iran's oil from escaping.
Then, there's Russia.....whatever Iranian oil China isn't pumping, they probably are.....not to mention the huge construction contracts they have for building nuclear power plants.....well, things are getting a little outa control down there, they figure....way too much money tied up down there......So, they offer to enrich Iran's uranium for them. And, to further placate the Iranians, they decide to invite all of the newly-elected (and available) Hamas folks to an enclave in Russia, over the objections of the West.
So, pissed off at Russia, Tex decides he'd better get cozy with the enormous population of nearby India once again.....he goes over there and offers them pie in the sky, telling them that the US will help them expand their nuclear capability (peaceful purposes only, of course)....which they seem to have bought......an' then he goes to Pakistan & tells them that they haven't been pulling their weight, and they ain't gonna get so much as a lollipop.......
Musharraf, who likes running his country, and who has already extended his term as "president" by promising elections in 2008, sees the US-aided nuclear buildup in India and US presence in Afghanistan on another part of his border, starts nervously sweating and warily eyeing the only part of his border without US presence.....Iran....they, likewise, having existed in a pincers between US-occupied Iraq and Afghanistan and the other 'Stans, start eyeing the part of their border that could possibly afford them some future protection......Pakistan......whose national hero Khan, with the consent of Musharraf, was insrumental in affording Iran the opportunity to rapidly accelerate their nuclear ambitions.
But where's China in all this? They're patient.....content to watch it all unfold, with a headlong military buildup in the meantime.....and whenever the US inevitably screws up and creates another vacuum, they step into the void with money and technology and are rewarded with oil contracts.
Dubya is now creating another vacuum in Pakistan by making them another stepchild and beefing up the nuclear capabilities of their enemy, India (peaceful purposes only, remember.....would ol' George lie to you?).....if Musharraf feels uneasy enough about his future, which he probably does, he's apt to strengthen his ties to Iran.
So, consider : The US has already told China that they will aid Taiwan militarily should China attempt to take Taiwan back into the fold by force, which they have stated that they will do, if necessary. China is chewing on the promise of the US to strengthen the nuclear capabilities of India, on their southern border....and they're damned well aware that such generosity toward a nation that never ratified the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty unquestionably carries with it some conditions......historically, and predictably, that would suggest some form of military presence by the US or approval to use India's military facilities and airfields as a staging area should the need arise in a future conflict.
That's gotta make China feel doubly uneasy.......the squeeze......
So here's the scenario:
A Pak-Iranian alliance would be to China's obvious benefit, one that they would undoubtedly nurture.......A Cino-Pak-Iranian alliance would mean that India would be totally isolated, strategically, with the exception of.......
Kashmir.
Russia invaded Afghanistan, and the US swung its military aid to Pakistan, so that they would assist the US in assisting Osama bin Laden in assisting the Taliban against Russia. India, miffed, found China willing to help build their nuclear facilities and bought nuclear arms from them to counteract the nuclear buildup in Pakistan, which was being developed by A. Q. Khan, with CIA funding, technical expertise, and material assistance....Khan becomes a national hero in Pakistan.
Christ!! Why does the US blindly make the same mistake over & over? They beef up some country's military and then, without warning, rebuke them publicly, treating them like a red-headed stepchild, often beefing up that country's enemies at the same time, leaving them in a vacuum, creating a need to seek other allies.....
So what happened next? 9/11, of course.
Well, that dildo Bush immediately hauls off and names Iran as a terrorist state and one of the axis of evil.....Iran, already one of the afore-mentioned red-headed stepchidren, had been pissed off enough to go to Kahn, who'd sell his mother for the right price, not to mention everything the CIA gave him, to the highest bidder.....
Meantime, Tex goes into Afghanistan with six-shooters blazing, going after his one-time allies Osama & the Taliban....the US starts pouring more money into Pakistan.....Pakistan's enemy, India, miffed again, invites China to develop oilfields & pipelines in India.
Tex, still with a couple rounds in his six-shooter, decides that Iraq is the next target of his born-again, neo-con ideals.....Iran, of course, gets even more pissed.....now the US has another military foothold right on their border. So, they start pouring copious amounts of cash into Iraq, funding insurgencies and financing the buildup of Shiite militias.
Iran had been practicing the same tactic with Hamas.....Lo & behold!! All of a sudden, Hamas was legitimately elected to govern the Palestinians, even though 12 of the Hamas elected representatives are still sitting in Israeli jails.
The US threatens to withhold funds to Hamas.....Iran says "So what? we'll keep on funding them ourselves, that's all....and by the way, we intend to blow Israel off the map....." So, the US threatens to sanction Iran....Iran says "So what? we'll sell all our oil to China....after all, they own & run a great portion of the oil facilities here anyway.".....and they start building up their military forces along the Gulf of Oman, across from Djiboudi, where the US already has a military installation set up in the event that they might have to set up a blockade to keep Iran's oil from escaping.
Then, there's Russia.....whatever Iranian oil China isn't pumping, they probably are.....not to mention the huge construction contracts they have for building nuclear power plants.....well, things are getting a little outa control down there, they figure....way too much money tied up down there......So, they offer to enrich Iran's uranium for them. And, to further placate the Iranians, they decide to invite all of the newly-elected (and available) Hamas folks to an enclave in Russia, over the objections of the West.
So, pissed off at Russia, Tex decides he'd better get cozy with the enormous population of nearby India once again.....he goes over there and offers them pie in the sky, telling them that the US will help them expand their nuclear capability (peaceful purposes only, of course)....which they seem to have bought......an' then he goes to Pakistan & tells them that they haven't been pulling their weight, and they ain't gonna get so much as a lollipop.......
Musharraf, who likes running his country, and who has already extended his term as "president" by promising elections in 2008, sees the US-aided nuclear buildup in India and US presence in Afghanistan on another part of his border, starts nervously sweating and warily eyeing the only part of his border without US presence.....Iran....they, likewise, having existed in a pincers between US-occupied Iraq and Afghanistan and the other 'Stans, start eyeing the part of their border that could possibly afford them some future protection......Pakistan......whose national hero Khan, with the consent of Musharraf, was insrumental in affording Iran the opportunity to rapidly accelerate their nuclear ambitions.
But where's China in all this? They're patient.....content to watch it all unfold, with a headlong military buildup in the meantime.....and whenever the US inevitably screws up and creates another vacuum, they step into the void with money and technology and are rewarded with oil contracts.
Dubya is now creating another vacuum in Pakistan by making them another stepchild and beefing up the nuclear capabilities of their enemy, India (peaceful purposes only, remember.....would ol' George lie to you?).....if Musharraf feels uneasy enough about his future, which he probably does, he's apt to strengthen his ties to Iran.
So, consider : The US has already told China that they will aid Taiwan militarily should China attempt to take Taiwan back into the fold by force, which they have stated that they will do, if necessary. China is chewing on the promise of the US to strengthen the nuclear capabilities of India, on their southern border....and they're damned well aware that such generosity toward a nation that never ratified the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty unquestionably carries with it some conditions......historically, and predictably, that would suggest some form of military presence by the US or approval to use India's military facilities and airfields as a staging area should the need arise in a future conflict.
That's gotta make China feel doubly uneasy.......the squeeze......
So here's the scenario:
A Pak-Iranian alliance would be to China's obvious benefit, one that they would undoubtedly nurture.......A Cino-Pak-Iranian alliance would mean that India would be totally isolated, strategically, with the exception of.......
Kashmir.
posted by Sir Lacksalot at 7:50 PM
6 Comments:
You sure lay it out better than I ever could. Great post. Nuclear Chess, it appears.
Sir Lacksalot--
The left reminds me of C3P0. "We're doomed!" "We surrender!" "We'll be destroyed for sure!" "We seem to be made to suffer."
The fanatics in Iran are the only people that will use nuclear weapons on its neighbors, Allah willing. Our friends in Pakistan, India, and China will do no such thing.
Terror from Islamic religious fanatics is not the measure of Western immorality. Islamic fundamentalists don't hate us because we fail to uphold freedom of speech, women's rights, freedom of the press and so forth -- they hate us because they actively oppose these values.
The September 9/11 attacks were not the result of people miffed about nuclear power.
you sure did make my head spin. (and i thank you for putting it in terms i can easily understand)
Jason....
Nobody has said that the 9/11 attacks had anything to do with people being miffed about nuclear power....all I said, as an example, was that it happened......
But became the catalyst for a group of neo-con zealots to further their worldview agenda, with the full power of the US military, against the wishes of nearly the entire world.
And, this particular group of neo-cons has been promoting their agenda since June 3, 1997. When Bush was elected president in 2000, he didn't choose a cabinet....the cabinet was already in place, and they chose Bush as their figurehead to run a campaign to get themselves in a position to put the world under American control.
This group organized the "Project for the New American Century" in 1997.....if I knew how place a link in the comment section, I would....but, I dont, so you'll have to key in their web address:
http://www.newamericancentury.org/
The first thing you'll want to check out is their "Statement of Principles".......dated, as I said, June 3, 1997.....but, more importantly, note the names of the signators on the bottom.....any familiar names?
And as for our "friends"....India and Pakistan have been in continual military conflict over Kashmir for decades, heightening the desire of both countries to maximize their nuclear capabilities.
As for China.....
Last July 15th, the Chinese Foreign Ministry, during another squabble about Taiwan and the continuing US military buildup there, held a press briefing in Beijing for foreign correspondents.....at that briefing. Major General Zhu Chenghu said that China would aim nuclear weapons at American cities if US forces intervened in a Chinese assault to prevent Taiwan from becoming formally independent, further saying that "If the Americans are determined to interfere, then we will be determined to respond.. We Chinese will prepare ourselves for the destruction of all the cities east of Xian. Of course, the Americans will have to be prepared that hundreds of American cities will be destroyed by the Chinese."
Like Neil, I'm very bad at chess so this is confusing to me. But your emphasis on Kashmir reminded me of this from an Indian story on the topic:
During his first term, Bush succeeded in removing the traditional Indian fears about American meddling in Kashmir. While Bush would indeed say a few things about the urgency of resolving the Kashmir issue during his stay in Pakistan, few in North or South Block are losing any sleep on American policy towards Kashmir.
The remaining doubters were reassured when Bush told Manmohan Singh during their Thursday talks that the US has no desire to inject itself as a mediator in the Kashmir dispute with Pakistan.
Bush’s balanced approach to Kashmir allowed Washington, for the first time in the last six decades, to simultaneously develop good relations with both India and Pakistan.
This is the void you're talking about? Or is BushCo lying about this as well?
eRobin.....
The "void" or, as I called it, the vacuum, was created by Dubya visiting India on one day, and promising them the world, as it relates to nuclear capability.....then, on the next day, he goes to Pakistan, India's arch-enemy, with whom they've been battling over Kashmir for decades, and tells Musharraf the equivalent of "You're doin' one heckuva job, Brownie".....and we know where Michael Brown wound up.....
Pakistan has just been jilted, insulted, slighted, or whatever adjective you'd prefer.....if the US is no longer in Musharraf's corner, a vacuum has been created.....
India & Pakistan have been fighting for control of Kashmir for decades....hence each country's desire for a more powerful arsenal...Bush just told Pakistan that the US prefers to swing their might toward India....where do you suppose that leaves Pakistan? In that lonely vacuum.....
Who's gonna fill that vacuum? China......We offer all of that nuclear capability to India, and all of sudden, China's gonna offer the same to Pakistan.....
Eventually, you're gonna have a situation where the only thing standing between China and a direct oil pipeline to Iran via Pakistan is....
Kashmir.
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