Wow!

Ulhas Joglekar uvj at vsnl.com
Tue Mar 25 08:03:08 PST 2003



> > A puppet of whom? jks
>
> Pakistan. Maybe the T was somewhere between a client regime and an
outright
> puppet, but from what I gathered, they ate from the hand of ISI.

Yes, Taliban were created by ISI.


> And even given that the Taliban was just about the softest target
imaginable
> for regime change (I suppose you could attack Kiribati, Nauru or Tuvalu.)
I
> just hope for all our sakes that the yank army didn't draw stupid
conclusions
> from that.

Various insurgencies seem to have concluded in and around South Asia that their activity can not be sustained, since the US launched the War on Terror. LTTE, Nepali Maoist, insurgencies in parts of India etc are now willing to negotiate and settle for autonomy. I don't know if results of referendum in Chechnya signify the similar shift. Perhaps Chris Doss could throw some on Chechnya.

Ulhas


> Thiago



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