United States: Government sells F-16 aircraft to Pakistan
The Hindu: F-16s for Pakistan will fuel arms race
History does have a tendency to repeat itself, usually because those running powerful governments don’t reflect enough on their decisions. And the United States is a perfect example. It continues to sell arms to countries, later regretting it as those weapons are used to kill U.S. soldiers or attack U.S. embassies.
One example is Afghanistan, where U.S. soldiers combated "the enemy" who wielded U.S. weaponry.
No matter, since the Bush administration has decided it is a good idea to provide F-16 fighter aircraft to Pakistan. This decision adversely affects of our ally India (the location of many outsourced U.S. jobs).
From The Hindu:
"…even if packaged with `sweeteners' like the offer of advanced multi-role combat aircraft (MRCA) to India or a dialogue on civilian nuclear cooperation, is likely to have an adverse impact on the security environment in South Asia, highly-placed sources in South Block told The Hindu today."
The question is, hasn’t the United States learned its lesson yet? There is so little stability in the area currently, as seen with China’s move to arm itself and the overthrow of governments in the Kyrgyz Republic. Why rock the boat by arming Pakistan with F-16s? What does the United States have to gain.
Money? Power? How many years will it take before Pakistan uses the fighter aircraft against our "friends" around the world or against U.S. service people?
History does have a tendency to repeat itself, usually because those running powerful governments don’t reflect enough on their decisions. And the United States is a perfect example. It continues to sell arms to countries, later regretting it as those weapons are used to kill U.S. soldiers or attack U.S. embassies.
One example is Afghanistan, where U.S. soldiers combated "the enemy" who wielded U.S. weaponry.
No matter, since the Bush administration has decided it is a good idea to provide F-16 fighter aircraft to Pakistan. This decision adversely affects of our ally India (the location of many outsourced U.S. jobs).
From The Hindu:
"…even if packaged with `sweeteners' like the offer of advanced multi-role combat aircraft (MRCA) to India or a dialogue on civilian nuclear cooperation, is likely to have an adverse impact on the security environment in South Asia, highly-placed sources in South Block told The Hindu today."
The question is, hasn’t the United States learned its lesson yet? There is so little stability in the area currently, as seen with China’s move to arm itself and the overthrow of governments in the Kyrgyz Republic. Why rock the boat by arming Pakistan with F-16s? What does the United States have to gain.
Money? Power? How many years will it take before Pakistan uses the fighter aircraft against our "friends" around the world or against U.S. service people?
posted by publisher at 6:40 AM
1 Comments:
I'm always curious, or is it omnious, about using different sources. I mean a newspaper in India seems like a good source, a good 3/4 of me believes so, but let's play devil's advocate. Could that newspaper be semi-biased?
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