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Old 07-31-2012, 05:21 PM
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whats the argument here,
I think it used to be "If the purpose of the war was to get Osama and since they got him already, shouldn't the war be over?" To which I should have merely answered "Yes, it should be over, except we've been lied to, so it isn't."
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that a nuclear exchange between India and Pakistan wouldn't affect most of the rest of the world, and therefore we shouldn't spend too much time considering it as a possibility?
Of course I do not believe that nuclear war is a trivial matter.

But with respect to (what I infer to be) t walgamuth's hypothesis that India / Pakistan relations are our gov't's reason / justification for continued military presence in Afghanistan; and that both countries are ready to annihilate each other any minute now.

I have to say that I think both of those are unlikely; and that I've seen no information to support either notion.
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