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| India-Pakistan |
| Perv sez 'We ain't givin' up nuttin'!' |
| 2002-05-28 |
| General Pervez Musharraf said on Monday that Pakistan would not make any further sacrifices of the country's "honour and dignity" as the price of avoiding war with India. Honor, dignity — and revenge: These are the Islamic virtues... In an interview with the Financial Times, Musharraf flatly denied that there was any cross-border terrorist infiltration of India's portion of Kashmir. Gen Musharraf, who earlier gave a 25-minute broadcast to the nation, also ruled out any possibility of handing over 20 alleged terrorists — India's other key demand. "India cannot be both the accusers and judges," said Gen Musharraf. "We have made it very clear that there is no activity along the Line of Control." In the face of all evidence, there's no cross-border infiltration. "Them damn' Hindoos is makin' all this up, 'cuz they don't like us." And he's not turning over any of the crazed killers the U.S. wants, either, like Omar Sheikh... He added: "I am a military man. And while I do not want war, I am not scared of war. However the avoidance of war cannot come at the cost of compromising our honour and dignity." That's either a lie or an indication that he's stupid. I'm starting to think it's the latter. "Diplomacy is war by other means." Another tenet of Islam. In a strong hint that Pakistan would retaliate heavily to any Indian military action, Gen Musharraf said that Pakistan was neither a "walk-over" nor weak. Pakistan is to test a third nuclear-capable missile on Tuesday, following two tests at the weekend. Pakistan has never won a war. The best he could hope for would be to make an Indian victory costly... "We have good military deterrence," Perv is the classic case of the guy who doesn't know whether to spit or go blind, so he closes one eye and drools. He's stuck between the Indian rock and the jihadi hard place with nowhere to go, the most pathetic of creatures — the ineffectual dictator. The fundos and ISI have rendered him so by the simple mechanism of ignoring his orders. The only way he could avoid war would be to exert control over the jihadis, and he doesn't have the strength to do that. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |