NP - Propaganda (formerly Ashcroft to Pursue Suicide Doctors)

[Terrance]

There's no doubt it's Indian propaganda.  They have as much if not more
of a stake in the current crisis in South Asia as any of the other
participants, since they would be on the receiving end of any nuclear
strike engineered by the Pakistanis.  But now General Musharraf is our
good friend in the area.  Of course, if we want the unvarnished truth,
we must turn to CNN. 

jbf 

You can turn to CNN for the unvarnished truth. I guess that's where you
got the idea that General Musharraf is our good friend in the area. Did
this organization ever publish a paper on the opium trade in India?
Larger,  licit and illicit, than both Pakistan's and Afghanistan's. 

It's a very sad situation. Two very poor nations in debt up to their eye
balls. 
Pakistan spends half of its money on debt service and around 3.5% of GDP
(about equal to what the USA spends) on defense. India spends less. 
They did not get into the red by building nukes or buying weapons or
even by failing to end their protracted and vicious war. Of course
spending money on weapons when you are so poor is a sin and a crime, but
the CIA and the USA, while not innocent in all this, is not responsible
for the poverty and addiction and debt in these nations.