Why should India care? Haven't we sold weapons to them too?

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1676988/posts

India concerned at US plan to sell missiles to Pakistan

NEW DELHI, 3, Aug. 2006: India expressed concern on Wednesday over the United States government's plan to supply anti-ship harpoon missiles to Pakistan, saying that they could be employed against India.

The government has "engaged and will continue to engage the US government to limit the sale of advanced military technology to Pakistan which could be used against India," Minister of State for External Affairs Anand Sharma said in the Lok Sabha (Lower House). In a written reply to a question by Mitrasen Yadav of the Communist Party of India, the minister said the government would continue to modernise and equip the Indian armed forces to deal with all threats to national security.

He said that the US Congress had been told that the proposed sale of the American missiles would not affect the basic military balance in the region.

"Nevertheless, the government is concerned at Pakistan acquiring advanced weaponry that might be used against India," Sharma said.

He said that the Harpoon Block II anti-ship missiles along with associated equipment and service, that the US Defence Security Cooperation Agency intended to provide to Pakistan, is an all weather, over-the-horizon, anti-ship missile, with a low-level, sea-skimming cruise trajectory and active radar guidance. The missile has a range of more than 67 nautical miles and a 500-pound blast warhead.

Article has a little more.

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1. Actually... We Should All Be Concerned

The shit has to end!

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2. It probably will end.

One way or another.

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6. Exactly... It's How It Ends That Concerns Me

and I hope more people will.

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3. yup/nt

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4. Pakistan is our "valuable ally" in a turbulant region.

As are all the other "valuable allies" our arms industry makes a killing (literally and figuratively) selling arms to.

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5. No doubt.

So is India. Or so I had thought...