Gotta love these Indians. It's amazing how they twist everything. The US has been talking up "alternate supply routes" for half a decade, there are huge logistical problems. We're not looking to keep the US here, infact alot of problems happen wherever the US goes. We didn't have these well-funded and well-supplied terrorists getting supplies from Afg before the US. We did have them when USSR, the prev. biggo superpower came here and their intelligence agency people staged bombings, like the CIA does now with their raymond davis types.
These lovely Indians cherish and celebrate everything that could potentially undermine us - like them being on a buying spree and when despite after their spending tens of billions on multiple deals Pakistan still manages to maintain quiet a credible and effective deterrent against any adventures, they try to weasel around that by getting Brazil to stop missile shipments or aircraft deals. Their crooked and malicious humor and thinly veiled words still betray a strong stench of pettiness. Too bad it's still not working out for them though, for now the US still needs Pakistan.
And even in the times they didn't Pakistan managed to perform quiet effectively. Even if we don't get any more F-16s the JFT is proving to be quiet an effective platform, just look at how it surprised western audiences at Farnsborrough. And please don't bring up comparisons to LCA, I'm sure it's very nice and all that. But comparing something that actually exists to a paper tiger is just too much duplicity to stomach.
