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Originally Posted by cullennewsom
I know what nuclear winter is supposed to be. What I don't understand is the mental gymnastics that one has to do to correlate the many-years long "tiff" as you put it between Pakistan and India in reply to the original question of this thread. One of these things is not like the other.
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I believe one of the main concerns with our military presence in Afganistan is keeping the Pakistanis and Indians from attacking each other. Pulling out is thought to create a possible vacuum which might attract the pakistanis or Indians or both and since they are both nuclear powers and since India has many times the population of Pakistan if they are to get into a scuffle Pakistan is thought to want to play the nuclear card against India if they start getting the worst of it (very likely) which in turn would no doubt likely cause India to do the same.
A nuke war there could cause a nuclear winter world wide.
Its serious business and since we are there we need to watch out what we do that might upset the precarious balance.
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