Quote Originally Posted by Sir C View Post
It may be the case that those Pakistani fellas are looking over one border at the dust and sh*t of Afghanistan, over the other border at the vast wand rapidly expanding wealth of India, and wondering whether, with a little US seed money, they might not be better off emulating the one over the other...
They'll never be able to admit their entire creation myth - Jinnah, the ML and Partition - was an unmitigated clusterfück which has seen the GDP per cap halve relative to India.

So they have to believe they are 'The Land of the Pure' (Pakistan) which is why anywhere outside Islamabad and the posh, walled compounds of Lahore and Karachi are basically Taleb country.

Thank God the Pashtuns and Baluchis were on our side in the two WWs, imo.

But they ain't gonna give up their belief in a Muslim homeland just to have the chance to imitate the Indian middle class.

{Though I accept I haven't been there and the Indian sources I read my not be entirely impartial. But I've spent enough time with Kashmiris to understand that mindset. The Kashmiris would be minted if they could stop the war and go back to renting out houseboats to honeymooners from Delhi and rich intl tourists for $x00 per night. But they prefer Jihad. This is what happens to people who think they're better than the British and the Congress Party when they clearly aren't.}