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'No option left other than full blown war', says Pakistan's Khawaja Asif amid escalating tensions with India

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'No option left other than full blown war', says Pakistan's Khawaja Asif amid escalating tensions with India

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3mo ago

'No option left other than full blown war', says Pakistan's Khawaja Asif amid escalating tensions with India

www.firstpost.com /world/no-option-left-other-than-full-blown-war-says-pakistans-khawaja-asif-amid-escalating-tensions-with-india-13887101.html

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Here's an idea: Let's take the five or six middle-aged male politicians (because it's almost always middle-aged male politicians) from each side who want to send their own people to war and put them in a big room with baseball bats.
My bet is it will be like those viral videos where dogs bark at each other when there's a gate in the way, but if someone opens the gate, they just stare at each other and look nervous.
Whatever happens in there, it's to have absolutely no bearing on their countries or the rest of the world, but they're not allowed to come out until they all need a hospital.
And if they still want war after that, they go back in the room.
- Unfortunately it's not just politicians doing this. A lot of people hate each other for no other reason than they're from a different country/religion/race.
  
  Yes, religion is a charged topic here. Especially after the recent terrorist attack.
  
  Yeah, but it's those politicians who'll send their compatriots to war.
  If instead they'd started walking the propaganda back rather than lighting fires under everyone and getting everyone mad, it might have averted this. (Past tense because it might already be too late by the look of it). And one way to convince blood-thirsty ivory tower dwellers that war is a bad idea is that room I mentioned.
  I mean, I saw a video the other day of children at a kindergarten or primary school where a little boy declared that he wanted to see the destruction of the other country. I forget now which country the boy was from, but it doesn't matter. The politicians on each side have been fomenting hate for decades when they could have been doing the opposite, and that, unlike money, actually does trickle down.
- My bet is it will be like those viral videos where dogs bark at each other when there's a gate in the way, but if someone opens the gate, they just stare at each other and look nervous.
  It would be exactly like this viral video
- You’d have to use cricket bats, but it’s not the worst idea
- I really hope there is a parallel universe where this happens, I wish it with every fiber of my being
- Sounds like a Kilgore Trout story
- Lol, I just posted a similar idea. Leader death match streaming available!
Me, reading the news every day:
What was that about World War III breaking out if Harris was elected?
I expected this war 20 years ago, I am surprised they kept their pants on this long. These two stay trying to fuck.
- He doesn't just suck. He is completely incompetent. If I am wrong, please someone correct me but I don't remember anything negotiated during his first term that has lasted.
  
  Negotiation is essentially an exercise in empathy, trying to put yourself in the other side's shoes, moderating a negotiation is essentially the same thing twice. Is it any wonder that an egocentric person who only cares about himself is not good at it?
Serious questions: India attacked Kashmir? Why? Did they have intel that Pakistan was actually involved in a tourist attack or is this assumption?
- Did they have intel that Pakistan was actually involved in a tourist attack or is this assumption?
  EDIT: to clarify, pakistan itself is not involved on the killing of tourists, but there is evidence to support that the group that did kill the tourists have complete patronage of pakistan's army and government and are shielded by them.
  the intel or its source is not shared publicly yet, though. nobody can say for sure why it hasn't been shared yet but the conjecture is that it's to protect a sensitive set of sources based in pakistan from retaliation.
  india has put itself on the backfoot. fighting this war is like trying to wrestle with a pig--india will only muddy itself while the pig loves it. they wouldn't put themselves in such a position unless there was compelling evidence to do so.
  separately, this isn't the first attack on indian civilians by members of groups sheltered in pakistan by all their official and legal machinery. this isn't even the first successful such attack.
  these attacks are akin to the september 11 attacks on the twin towers (in that innocent civilians are targeted by a deeply planned and coordinated attack with the sole aim to spread fear and terror). and that was reason enough for the usa to conduct an operation in pakistan's heartland to "get" osama (who himself was sheltered by the same people in pakistan's army and government).
  
  This is a fair assessment. I am surprised. I've been seeing a lot of denial of Pakistan's association with terrorism around this site.
  
  Comparing the attacks and India's response to 9/11 is apt because America's response led to America wasting billions if not trillions of dollars fighting a series of wars that had the primary effect of making people hate us even more than they did before, and also led our national politics down an ever stupider road than we were on before and let us directly to the point where we have our own tinpot dictator.
  If history should teach us anything, it's that America's response to 9/11 is the absolute opposite of what one should do when attacked, if one wants to have a better long-term outcome.
  
  Can you please give news sources for what you're saying? I'm sorry, I'm just terribly uninformed on this.
The current Pakistani government is a illegitimate Junta looking for any distraction from their low popularity. Of course they are delighted that India starts a war with them so they can do the rallly around the flag. Free Imran Khan.
I propose that if a bitch ass like putin, orange man, khawaja ass if want a war, they should get one between each other. We all go on with our lives and we just toss them in a big room made of hardened steel walls floor and roof. Only one of the "leaders" gets to come out alive. If your leader comes out alive, congratulations! You've won the war! And we stream it online so kids can watch and enjoy! If both get tired, the one still standing gets some water and bread. If they are still alive after 2 days then the next inline is tossed in with the same rules except they get a very sharp kitchen knife. Half the arena is coated in poison gel. There's also a bottomless pit and other traps.
I’m so sick of this shit. I and most others have no interest, but will be effected.
- Affected? but yeah this is all sorts of no good.
  
  I generally avoid using those two words.

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