MM
>>> mpollak at panix.com 05/26/02 06:39 AM >>>
On Fri, 24 May 2002, Ulhas Joglekar wrote:
> > > The US is not going to abandon Pakistan. The mess in Afghanistan was
> > > created by the Soviet Union and the US. India has to cope with the
> > > 'collateral damage' from this mess on her own.
> >
> > Isn't the U.S. doing joint military maneuvers with India? What's that
> > all about?
>
> I don't understand the question. I am not sure how joint military
> maneuvers contradict what I have said.
I think what Doug might have been getting at was that one of the things India is supposed to be contemplating is a night raid on terrorist training camps in Jammu & Kashmir with attack helicopters. And the maneuvers in Agra supposedly involve an Indian special forces commando unit, the Para Brigade, and a lot of attack helicopters. India has publicly said it would model such an action on what the US and Britain have been doing in Afghanistan. And military analysts have been quoted in the newspapers suggesting that India might lack some of the high-tech accoutrements necessary for such a mission. So on the surface, it looks as if the US might be actively facilitating India's ability to do such things.
You are right that it might be small compared to the other factors in the narrative and maybe means nothing and the scheduling is coincidental. But on the face of it, it does seem to stick out a little from the narrative of a pure Pakistan tilt.
Michael