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2006-04-23 India-Pakistan

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Posted by john 2006-04-23 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Aragorn, son of Arathorn, will return.

Posted by gromgoru 2006-04-23 12:49|| 2006-04-23 12:49|| Front Page Top

#2 There are an awful lot of red flags with hammers and sickles being waved by these "pro democracy" protestors.

Here is what Gwynne Dyer has written about the maoists
"Comrade Prachandra", the 42-year-old former horticulture teacher who is the Nepali Maoists' leader, never gives interviews, but the deputy leader, Baburam Bhattarai - whose PhD thesis was a Marxist analysis of Nepal's problems - was chilling when asked whether his movement's policies would be similar to those of the Khmer Rouge: "There is no independent and authentic account of events in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge available so far. Whatever is emanating from the Western media appears to be highly exaggerated." In other words, they are the same.

If the Maoists win, an early Indian intervention might spare the Nepalese population the worst horrors of a Khmer Rouge-style genocide, but only at the cost to India of a long and thankless guerilla war in Nepal. Nepal is heading straight for hell, and nobody in the country seems remotely capable of stopping it.

The Himmalayas protect the Indian subcontinent. If Chinese troops enter Nepal, or the maoists take over, it faces the prospect of the vulnerable gangetic plains being open to attack.

It cannot allow that. There will be war.

Posted by john 2006-04-23 17:17|| 2006-04-23 17:17|| Front Page Top

#3 I am not sure there will be war with China over Nepal, but if the Maoist take over or look like doing so, India will invade.

Posted by phil_b">phil_b 2006-04-23 18:17|| http://autonomousoperation.blogspot.com/]">[http://autonomousoperation.blogspot.com/] 2006-04-23 18:17|| Front Page Top

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