I don't think subby appreciates what an India-Pakistani war entails.

Hint: Armageddon.

Shouldn't someone be trying to summon an army of ten-armed god monsters to end this crisis?

nashBridges: I don't think subby appreciates what an India-Pakistani war entails.

Hint: Armageddon.

Not that a nuclear war between India and Pakistan wouldn't be an unprecedented human catastrophe, but neither of them has a nuclear arsenal that large. The only fallout you'd have to worry about on this side of the globe would economic. Besides, even if war does break out, that doesn't mean that a nuclear exchange is inevitable.

The problem with blaming Pakistan is that a great deal of the military and ISI are apparantly very fragmented, and a group of officers could have arranged the whole thing to the ignorance of the government.

Cagey B: Shouldn't someone be trying to summon an army of ten-armed god monsters to end this crisis?



/the one true, many-armed god-monster approves.

Armageddon??
I don't think anyone would notice a difference.

Maybe they can go broke funding boondoggle homeland security apparatus as well.

Swampthing in Korea: The problem with blaming Pakistan is that a great deal of the military and ISI are apparantly very fragmented, and a group of officers could have arranged the whole thing to the ignorance of the government.

Bingo
People in India and the West might be starting to think Pervez Musharraf wasn't such a devil afterall

nashBridges: I don't think subby appreciates what an India-Pakistani war entails.

Hint: Armageddon.

seriously. Who would be left to do tech-support? The whole world would collapse.

Barn door? Please, do go on and sing the praises of the Department of Homeland Security while you're at it.

/ smitty = fail as does armageddon-comment guy.

michaeld5: Armageddon??
I don't think anyone would notice a difference.

Yeah, that suburb would be so much prettier with 5000 ft McMansions with 3 foot lawn borders instead. The entirely similar looking skyline full of skyscrapers that would take up that picture if panned up a mere 5 degrees, however, is just fine and a beautiful example of american global corpratism in action.

^^ I LOL'd at the MadMag reference...

For the sake of homeland security, it's time to create a color scheme terror alert, India. It would be very useful tool to protect the Unit India.

Why didn't India just send in Delta Force or any other anti terrorist unit?

-Well, considering how the regular Indian cops did, I guess they need it...(new window)


/sheesh

CastorPimp

They tried, but the unit was contracted out helping some dude in New Jersey upgrade his graphics drivers.

Go for it. Consolidation of power for the government, a diversion of money from raising the standard of living to policing the peasants, and implementing the prepackaged "War on Terror" propaganda that castrates revolutionary sentiment. This should keep their western masters happy.

Barndour? Isn't that a suburb of Mumbai?


/Birdy Num Nums... nothing useful to contribute, of course.

Masso: For the sake of homeland security, it's time to create a color scheme terror alert, India. It would be very useful tool to protect the Unit India.



Done.

Does the idea of an Indian elite commando squad sound a little humorous to anyone else? This is essentialism, due the the fact that the only Indians who come to America are academics looking to study, usually math or science. Still, I'm picturing a group of short guys with mustaches in khakis and button-down short-sleeved shirts getting knocked over by the kickback from their machine guns.

Tommy Moo: Does the idea of an Indian elite commando squad sound a little humorous to anyone else? This is essentialism, due the the fact that the only Indians who come to America are academics looking to study, usually math or science. Still, I'm picturing a group of short guys with mustaches in khakis and button-down short-sleeved shirts getting knocked over by the kickback from their machine guns.

You forgot the singing and dancing.

The family and I stayed at a cheap hotel while traveling America's freeway the night before Thanksgiving.

Thanksgiving morning, we loaded the kids into the car and I checked out of the place. I got into the car and said, "hey kids, an Indian just wished me a happy thanksgiving!"

The wife and I spent 20 minutes explaining it.

LowbrowDeluxe: michaeld5: Armageddon??
I don't think anyone would notice a difference.

Yeah, that suburb would be so much prettier with 5000 ft McMansions with 3 foot lawn borders instead. The entirely similar looking skyline full of skyscrapers that would take up that picture if panned up a mere 5 degrees, however, is just fine and a beautiful example of american global corpratism in action.

Filthy Burgoise

michaeld5: Armageddon??
I don't think anyone would notice a difference.

An Indian Home Depot: the only place in the world where blue tarp is in the "building materials" section.

Sean_L: michaeld5: Armageddon??
I don't think anyone would notice a difference.

An Indian Home Depot: the only place in the world where blue tarp is in the "building materials" section.

Actually, most of the world looks at blue tarp as building material deluxe - Mexico, much of northern South America, the greatest part of the African continent, much of SE Asia . . .

I can just see it:

"The state of alert has been raised from Madras to Vindaloo."

This barn door you speak of. I believe it was blowed up by everyone's 401K turning to crap recently.

So India had a a fragmented intelligence infrastructure. The intelligence agencies couldn't or didn't pull together the information that would have given them any foreknowledge of the attack. Now the PM wants a central terrorism agency that could help them prevent future attacks.

The Indians protesting that lack of knowledge and wanting to hold the government responsible for the attacks are the same people who will protest that having a foriegn intelligence agency will violate the civil rights of terrorists and should be watered down until any intelligence program is effectively emasculated.

India really does try to model themselves after the U.S., don't they?

Dang it, I missed all the mumbai-fark threads!

As an indian I am def getting a kick out of all the mumbai threads.

/that place will always be called Bombay to me

Tommy Moo: Does the idea of an Indian elite commando squad sound a little humorous to anyone else? This is essentialism, due the the fact that the only Indians who come to America are academics looking to study, usually math or science. Still, I'm picturing a group of short guys with mustaches in khakis and button-down short-sleeved shirts getting knocked over by the kickback from their machine guns.


Malinki: You forgot the singing and dancing.

Having worked some years ago with Indian troops, the problem then and now is the interleaved, competing and byzantine layers of bureaucracy in both Indian LEOs and the military. It is a holdover from British colonial days when British and native cops and military units existed side-by-side and essentially engaged in continuous attempts to upstage and embarrass each other.

Churchill2004: nashBridges: I don't think subby appreciates what an India-Pakistani war entails.

Hint: Armageddon.

Not that a nuclear war between India and Pakistan wouldn't be an unprecedented human catastrophe, but neither of them has a nuclear arsenal that large. The only fallout you'd have to worry about on this side of the globe would economic. Besides, even if war does break out, that doesn't mean that a nuclear exchange is inevitable.

You're wrong.

Tommy Moo: Does the idea of an Indian elite commando squad sound a little humorous to anyone else? This is essentialism, due the the fact that the only Indians who come to America are academics looking to study, usually math or science. Still, I'm picturing a group of short guys with mustaches in khakis and button-down short-sleeved shirts getting knocked over by the kickback from their machine guns.

They'd probably be terrifying. Drunk, heavily armed, and swaggering about high on their authority.

Malinki: Masso: For the sake of homeland security, it's time to create a color scheme terror alert, India. It would be very useful tool to protect the Unit India.



Done.

You're so going to hell for that.

Then again, so am I. I LOL'd heartily.

/Exit row, aisle, please.

It would've been interesting to see if they could've similiarly invaded Miami this way. Probably not. The terrorists would've either been gunned down by armed residents or gunned down by our better-armed police who are used to cleaning up after/confronting our trigger-happy armed residents.

Still a tragedy for India. Such a great country. Reading the eyewitness accounts just makes me sick. There was a Muslim couple who was in a group of six people picked to be gunned down. They told the gunmen they were muslim and were let go. I don't blame the muslim couple for doing that; rather, I pity them for the nightmares they're going to have the next few weeks. What a terrible situation. Terrorists need to DIAF.

QueenOfHearts: Malinki: Masso: For the sake of homeland security, it's time to create a color scheme terror alert, India. It would be very useful tool to protect the Unit India.

Done.

You're so going to hell for that.

Then again, so am I. I LOL'd heartily.

/Exit row, aisle, please.

That's cool, I like the window seat, thank you :)

Well, at least they have MP5s and some armor.

mobby_6kl: Well, at least they have MP5s and some armor.

Your photos made me unhappy.

yarnothuntin: seriously. Who would be left to do tech-support? The whole world would collapse.

Where do I send your free intarweb, you magnificent bastard?

FLMountainMan: It would've been interesting to see if they could've similiarly invaded Miami this way. Probably not. The terrorists would've either been gunned down by armed residents or gunned down by our better-armed police who are used to cleaning up after/confronting our trigger-happy armed residents.

Yeah we also saw the Virginia gunmen being gunned down by trigger happy residents and SWAT team, oh wait....thats right, next time think back and see if a similar situation happened and you will get your answers or get even more confused.