India, US should go for pre-emptive strikes, destroy Pak's N-assets: Larry Pressler

[ashok321]

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com...assets-ex-us-senator/articleshow/60837031.cms

MUMBAI: Suggesting that both India and the US conduct preemptive strikes inside Pakistan to destroy its nuclear sites (where weapons have either already been stored or are being made), former US Senator Larry Pressler told TOI on Monday that Donald Trump may turn out to be the best American president yet for India as he had recently put Pakistan on notice for harbouring terrorists.


But for this to happen, Trump would have to get around the Pentagon, which always encouraged Pakistan, he said. Such encouragement emboldened Pakistan to attack India as "the mother of terrorism" and "predator" at the UN general assembly session on Sunday, he added. Trump's description of the Pentagon as "a swamp" was a good sign, he noted, hoping the US president would drain it soon (as he'd promised).


A three-term Senator and twice a member of the House of Representatives, Pressler (75) authored the famous Pressler Amendment which in 1990 blocked US military aid to Pakistan when the then US President George H W Bush could not certify Pakistan was not developing nukes.


As the delivery of close to 30 F-16 aircraft to Islamabad was barred, Pressler, then a Republican and head of the Senate's arms control subcommittee, became something of a hero in India and, in his own words, "a devil in Pakistan." His new book, Neighbours in Arms, engagingly tells the story of the amendment and of the US foreign policy that enabled Pakistan to develop nuclear weapons and casts a severe spotlight on the culture of lobbying in Washington and the grip of the military-industrial state ("the Octopus") inside the US.
Pressler has long distanced himself from the Republican Party — he contested Senate polls as an Independent in 2014 and backed Hillary Clinton in the 2016 Presidential polls — but despite differences with Trump, he feels the president is not doing half as badly as US media suggests.


Trump's warning to Pakistan on its sheltering and export of terror, linking of US aid to "action on terror" and his request to India to "help us more with Afghanistan" signalled a recasting of relations.

 

[Sugarcane]

In short, He wants US to fight Pakistan till last Indian.

 

[Hakikat ve Hikmet]

Ahh Pressler ahh!!! As if the Pentagon boys have gone back to diapers!!! Haven't they already bagged Trump???? And, haven't they already sent the Trump advisors back home????? For Trump it's another business venture, for Pentagon boys it's bread and butter!!!! Even JFK failed, Trump doesn't have the remotest possibility to tame the Pentagon boys....

 

[Vapnope]

Trump is a b!atch of pentagon boys !

 

[Hellraiser007]

LOL mark my words... we will f**** wipeout one and only Hinduism State in this world aka "India". @ the end only Nepal will leftas a Hindu state for 2 kharab ki abadi lol

I appreciate your honesty, may be your administration should also be this honest instead of wondering about India's internal matters and human rights.

 

[jetray]

I appreciate your honesty, may be your administration should also be this honest instead of wondering about India's internal matters and human rights.

If they had so much balls they wont be having masood azhar or lakhvi as state policy and raising irrelevant internal issues in UN.

LOL mark my words... we will f**** wipeout one and only Hinduism State in this world aka "India". @ the end only Nepal will leftas a Hindu state for 2 kharab ki abadi lol

Talk is cheap (no tax!) , know some other country called Israel? muslims tried to destroy it and we all know what happened.

 

[hussain0216]

Talk is cheap (no tax!) , know some other country called Israel? muslims tried to destroy it and we all know what happened.

work in progress, they are over 20% arab/muslim now though and israel and occupied territories becoming full Muslim majority

 

[Dr Shaheryar]

Don't worry for you if you have US backing then we have China backing. You will be twisted from both sides.

 

[Mugwop]

If they had so much balls they wont be having masood azhar or lakhvi as state policy and raising irrelevant internal issues in UN.

Talk is cheap (no tax!) , know some other country called Israel? muslims tried to destroy it and we all know what happened.

Keyboard warriors and people who fake surgical strikes have no balls in real life.

Israel also asked india for a joint attack on Pak's nuclear facilities. Guess what happened?

Don't worry for you if you have US backing then we have China backing. You will be twisted from both sides.

Despite numerical advantage over Pakistan, india still needs backing

 

[Cyberian]

Go for it.

 

[El Sidd]

More than half of the Americans cannot successfully locate Pakistan or Afghanistan on a map.

Fewer still can differentiate between India and Pakistan.

Why do Uncle Sam need a Brownie excuse in India?

USA does not share a border with either Pakistan nor India and not even Afghanistan. Milking the US tax dollars and glorification of a couple of war mongers does not need a regional conflict which Uncle Sam can ill afford.

Statements like these are good when you have taken a fresh bath with some crazy bath salts but when you are sober you do realize what is at stake.

As a neutral observer pointed me out. There is a difference between US policies of the leaders it chooses to its military establishments policy. Signs of a system collapse maybe or maybe not. But interesting outbursts though worth the lobby money India poured in.

 

[STRANGER BIRD]

If they had so much balls they wont be having masood azhar or lakhvi as state policy and raising irrelevant internal issues in UN.

Kashmir is not internal issue of TerrorMata, nor blind kids by terrorist army is internal problem,
you people r talking about masood azhar or lakhvi every time. just listen both of them are Pakistani Nationals, & this is a state responsibility to protect them from TerrorMata. you got it? Endia always playing Blame Game , they have no proof that they are involved in any operations there in india it's just Blame Game, we also blaming Swami for spreading terrorism in the world , Now i Know you'll pointing UN , but what, UN support those who donate more, in this case india is ahead & also america & israel support Endia & UN do nothing against TerrorMata.

 

[kingQamaR]

Certain Indian masses are just to simple in zombie state when anything on Pakistan said .
Getting overly excited brains off
If it's that easy as Mr Larry sound mind suggest why has USA not yet attack North Korea nuclear !
Indian is defently on Americans list of lamb sacrifice to Pakistan or china .

 

[duhastmish]

Give India a few f22 and a few other hi tech stuff for free like you giving to Pakistan.

Give a special aid to fight your war.

We will get to foundation of it.

Words are not sufficient. You fed them with freebies. Pakistan is made by you. Now u pay for this war.

 

[Taimoor Khan]

Used to hear his name a lot back in 90s. Didn't know thid old Zionist fart still alive.