well i have a military background and our army is one of the best armies in the world, we have shown that in Kargil whcih was just the trailler for those who under mine our dertmination.

Secondly every country has its own rights and Pakistan has the right to be a nukelear pwer, coz if US, Israel and India cant take this then then should all give up their Nukes, cant be a one man show.

So people please talk some sense and see the reality.

And now US moourns about taleban, well they were the one created them in the first place to use them against the russians and now they will use india and then back stab them same goes for all the countries in the region.

A sleeper nuke.

Perhaps we should begin our defense for the bad times ahead by first constituting teams to search for these things amidst us.

And lets face it – the first target for the new clear jihadist will be either India or Israel (depending on the nationality of the handler).

Besides, If the US were really serious about capping Pak’s new clear plans, then step 1 is cutting land access to PRC from Pakland – the karakoram highway from which more new clear bums could be imported than the US or India could secure, I fear.

Good point. What’s more, even if the shield did work perfectly against missiles, it doesn’t mean it would work against every possible form of nuclear attack (eg. unconventional).

Hopefully something is being done about our maritime borders.

And of course Nitin doesn’t want us to discuss this taboo topic, because we all have to bow down to the jittery fool who happens to have his knife at our throat at this moment.

But my contention is that this “happenstance” has been long in the making, and isn’t some last minute product of arbitrary chance. The nervous Pakistani knife didn’t just end up at our throat by some new and unforeseen twist of circumstances.

We have long been watching the jittery fool and his knife come up to our throat from quite a distance away. They didn’t just sneak up on us at the last second. There was a time long ago, much forgotten, where we had absolute military superiority over the Pakistanis, before they had any nuclear strike capability. This was the time where we fiddled, diddled and dithered, in the carefree belief that there’d never be a need to do more.

It’s not like the debate over whether to stop an enemy from crossing the nuclear threshold is specific to India and Pakistan. We see it happening over Iran’s nuclear program, and a short while ago over North Korea’s. Well, we can see the increasingly ominous results of letting NKorea go nuclear, and have already seen the awful terrorism and mass death that India has suffered from allowing Pakistan to go nuclear. We Indians may yet experience an ever greater mass death, if the unstable Pakistan lobs some nukes at us. So there’s a lesson to be learned here about responsible versus irresponsible states acquiring nuclear weapons. India’s acquisition of nuclear weapons hasn’t harmed the world. We haven’t proliferated, we haven’t gone on any killing spree, etc. But the rogues are totally different — NKorea, Pakistan and even Iran are inherently/innately unstable states with irrational ideologies that can only lead them into conflict. And this is why they truly deserve the ‘rogue’ designation, as well as a different standard of treatment by the international community.

India is in the current predicament that it is in, not because of some last moment slip, but because of a long succession of slips and slippage, allowing the madman and his knife to steadily approach us and get near our throat. A last moment slip can be a forgiveable error, but such a long series of slips should not be.

Curious phrasing, to say the least.