India Successfully Launches Long Range Missle

Barthheart · April 19, 2012, 08:07:45 AM

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/20/world/asia/india-says-it-successfully-tests-nuclear-capable-missile.html?_r=1&hp

Works better than N.K.'s and no outcry from west......

Staggerwing · April 19, 2012, 08:16:04 AM

Quote from: Barthheart on April 19, 2012, 08:07:45 AM
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/20/world/asia/india-says-it-successfully-tests-nuclear-capable-missile.html?_r=1&hp

Works better than N.K.'s and no outcry from west......

That's because Indian nukes are not going to be aimed at Western nations or Israel while being a more credible threat to
Islamic nations and China than US nukes. Since relations are warming quite a bit between the US and India while they
are cooling rapidly with Pakistan it allows the US and Western Nations to keep a potential for regional influence by switching
players.

LongBlade · April 19, 2012, 08:17:23 AM

I just saw that headline.

Agree with Stagger - India isn't running around conducting itself like a rogue nation. Therein lies the difference.

Centurion40 · April 19, 2012, 08:44:06 AM

Besides, if we were to complain about India, all telephone customer support would be cut-off!

Gusington · April 19, 2012, 09:28:02 AM

This must be the other project my 'off-shore' tech team is working on.

I don't view this positively. Pakistan is definitely not happy about this and they could strike first.

Nukes anywhere in that part of the world = bad.

LongBlade · April 19, 2012, 09:35:05 AM

Quote from: Gusington on April 19, 2012, 09:28:02 AM
This must be the other project my 'off-shore' tech team is working on.

I don't view this positively. Pakistan is definitely not happy about this and they could strike first.

Nukes anywhere in that part of the world = bad.

India is going to have to grow up fast, and it appears as though they are.

They have the Paks on one side and the Chinese on another. As a democratic government it is almost inevitable that they will need to get cozier with the US and the West. They will also need to make plans so as to not be steamrolled by their neighbors.

I don't like the idea either, but the genie is out of the bottle. The best we can hope for is that Iran doesn't get its hat in the ring.

Gusington · April 19, 2012, 09:39:48 AM

^If anything, Iran will use this as another excuse for getting the bomb.

LongBlade · April 19, 2012, 05:10:37 PM

http://www.unitedagainstnucleariran.com/

Centurion40 · April 20, 2012, 08:33:28 AM

Quote from: Gusington on April 19, 2012, 09:28:02 AM
This must be the other project my 'off-shore' tech team is working on.

I don't view this positively. Pakistan is definitely not happy about this and they could strike first.

Nukes anywhere in that part of the world = bad.

And maybe that is what the Illuminati, Masters of Puppets, etc. want. Pakistan hits India, India has the moral high ground and pounds Pakistan into the stone age, reminds the rest of the world why nukes are so horrible, and takes its seat as a democratic republic at the big boy's table as a foil against China.

Barthheart · April 20, 2012, 08:36:14 AM

Quote from: Centurion40 on April 20, 2012, 08:33:28 AM
Quote from: Gusington on April 19, 2012, 09:28:02 AM
This must be the other project my 'off-shore' tech team is working on.

I don't view this positively. Pakistan is definitely not happy about this and they could strike first.

Nukes anywhere in that part of the world = bad.

And maybe that is what the Illuminati, Masters of Puppets, etc. want. Pakistan hits India, India has the moral high ground and pounds Pakistan into the stone age, reminds the rest of the world why nukes are so horrible, and takes its seat as a democratic republic at the big boy's table as a foil against China.

India doesn't need nukes to pound Pakistan into the stone age though.... just better leadership....

Centurion40 · April 20, 2012, 08:36:55 AM

I like the status quo (Pax Americana), but there are worse scenarios than Pax Indiana in western Asia.

Centurion40 · April 20, 2012, 08:37:39 AM

Quote from: Barthheart on April 20, 2012, 08:36:14 AM
Quote from: Centurion40 on April 20, 2012, 08:33:28 AM
Quote from: Gusington on April 19, 2012, 09:28:02 AM
This must be the other project my 'off-shore' tech team is working on.

I don't view this positively. Pakistan is definitely not happy about this and they could strike first.

Nukes anywhere in that part of the world = bad.

And maybe that is what the Illuminati, Masters of Puppets, etc. want. Pakistan hits India, India has the moral high ground and pounds Pakistan into the stone age, reminds the rest of the world why nukes are so horrible, and takes its seat as a democratic republic at the big boy's table as a foil against China.

India doesn't need nukes to pound Pakistan into the stone age though.... just better leadership....

note that I didn't say "Nuke Pakistan into the stone age." ;)

bayonetbrant · April 20, 2012, 08:56:04 AM

Quote from: Centurion40 on April 20, 2012, 08:36:55 AMI like the status quo (Pax Americana), but there are worse scenarios than Pax Indiana in western Asia.

Why the hell are the Hoosiers invading Asia?!

Staggerwing · April 20, 2012, 09:00:55 AM

Quote from: bayonetbrant on April 20, 2012, 08:56:04 AM
Quote from: Centurion40 on April 20, 2012, 08:36:55 AMI like the status quo (Pax Americana), but there are worse scenarios than Pax Indiana in western Asia.

Why the hell are the Hoosiers invading Asia?!

Harleyrider must be violating the restraining order that Dell Tech Support took out against him...

LongBlade · April 20, 2012, 09:02:30 AM

One could argue that much of Pakistan is barely beyond the stone age as it is. Nuking it might rid us of the rats but it's not likely to reduce the technology by much.