India and Pakistan Squaring off again!

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America IMO values India a lot more than Pakistan.

Not entire exact. America also worries about India's ambition to become a worldwide superpower more than Pakistan. They also offer military and economic assistance to Pakistan and they impose China to do so to curb India's influence in South Asia. India's Russian arm supplier also plays the same game. They sell India their newest jet planes meanwhile sell Pakistan jet engines for their new fighter jets via China, and konws once Pakistan has these fighters, India has to buy more plane from them.

It would probably be better for the Indian economy as the US would probably bankroll it.

I guess the stratigists of the Pentagon will do nothing to help Indian to improve their economy. In fact they want to curb its development, just as what they want to do to China, for India also has the potential to become a threat of America's supremacy. And in a country like America, government has less power to control where those private investors invest in. Private investors want to invest the countries and areas with political stability. If Inida goes into a war with Pakistan, even if its military force has strong enough as it looks like to defend all its cities and economy certers from attacks by Pakistan air force and missiles, they may also have to face some serious extrame Islamic militants's suicide attacks. Even Israel can not fully protect its citizens from such kind of attacks. India is too big and the border are too long for defence, and it also lacks money to equip high-tech anti-torrorism facilities. Any further massive attactks on civilians in prime cities will scare foreign investor flee away from the country if they have not flee yet.

India IMO is America's billion person puppet to keep China in check. India has become the "jewel" again so to speak.

I agree America wants to impose on India against China to curb China's development and influence, but their problem is both China and India governments know the scheme, so neither of them will not fall into this American trick, though they may use this trick to improve their own interests. What will Inida gain from confrontation against China? Nothing. The dispute territory is bleak moutainous area, there are no mines, no oil, almost no people, the only gold visible is on the roofs of Lama's temples. Why they wants a confrontation which may cost high and gain less? I guess what Indian politicans' scheme is counter-trick Americans----"you want us against China? Good. We will make nuclear bombs, because China has; we will develope ICBMs, because China has; and we will buy some Russian nuclear submarines, because China has....what? you say it is not necessary to have so many weapons? How can we confront them without weapons matches with them?"

The essential problem of America's plan is they don't really want India to be a great power in the world, that's what Indian wants, and Indian knows America dosn't allow them to get what they wants but merely a puppet, so they will not be a obedient puppet but a mischievous kid who will make his sponsor headache. The other problem is some Americans might questions the necessity of the plan. There is not any sign that China wants to challenge America's supremacy except the part of America meddling Chinese domestic business, such as Taiwan and Tibet. Is it wise to help to creat a new possible threat to curb a imaginative threat? I guess even in American government, there also are a lot of men have asked the question.

if Iran upsets the US enough, Iran will face wrath.

Iranian rulers are more smart than Sadaam, they know where the redline is. I guess they will dance beside it, but never across it.

The US fought the Iraq war on the cheap and didn't come close to using it's full potential.

The cost of a war can not only be judged by how many missiles, planes, tanks and soldiers were lost. In a multiplayer game, when you struggles with a certain side, the others will gain and reduce your chance to win the whole game.

As for military use not achieving goals, that depends on what the goals are. Military force has been quite efficient at getting nutbars out of power. Nation building, well that's up to the people of that country, no army can build a country.

I agree with you. Military force is efficient to achieve a tactical goal, such as capturing a city or occupying a country, or knocking down a dictator and his regime. But without a achievable political solution, the military victory might become a nightmare of bothside, the conqueror and the conquered. This is why I think India will not make a war with Pakistan. Obviously India has the military advantage so it is easy to began a war. But the problem is it is hard to end the war, I mean eliminating the threat of terrorism not make it worse.