Thread by @CestMoiz_

In light of the Pakis using US supplied TOW Missiles on the LoC, replugging some tweets posted in May 2016.
Here goes ..

F-16 Sale:Anti-Pak Sentiment Grows in US Congress thewire.in/2016/05/03/ant… via @thewire_in
I call bullshit.
WILL be delivered.
Subsidised.

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From the above report.
Very cute.
Just like F-86 Sabres / Pattons / Starfighters were meant to fight commies.

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Too bad the Pakis diverted these resources towards fighting India in 1965/71 wars despite 'desperate pleas' from the USA not to do so.

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Then came the Afghan 'Jihad'.
The same Pakistan which was under sanctions for nuke proliferation found itself absolved of all crimes...

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.. and sanctions 'magically' lifted in 1979 as the USSR became the enemy No 1 in the region, nuke proliferation be damned!

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Consequently, Pak became a de-facto nuclear state in May 1983 when the Chinese tested a device for them at Lop Nor in presence of the..

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.. presence of the Pak Foreign (?) Minister.
Of course, the first lot of F-16s delivered to 'fight communism' became their primary..

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.. nuke delivery platforms, used liberally to threaten nuclear armageddon in late 80s & early 90s!
Then there was the Punjab Terror.

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Carried out with abandon under the same nuke security umbrella and conventional military equipment provided by the USA!

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Then the Afghan 'Jihad' got over. Suddenly Pakistan became a nuke proliferator once again and Pressler amendment kicked in!

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The 90s saw a 'minor' incident of serial bomb blasts in Mumbai will a few 100 Indian lives lost. Amongst the evidence gathered was..

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.. a few military grade detonators of US origin, SUPPLIED BY THE USA TO PAK ARMY.
Sent to the US for forensic analysis, the mighty..

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.. superpower 'lost' them!
Not just that, only a vague, one page, UNSIGNED reply was given to Indian authorities, useless in a court..

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.. of law as evidence.
At about the same time, a US ambassador midwifed the Hurriyat Conference, going much beyond her 'Call of Duty'.

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Then came Nairobi bombings and the cruise missile strikes on al Qaeda camps in Afg. That serving Pak Army personnel too were among..

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.. the dead terrorists was perhaps just a coincidence!
9/11 was just round the corner. The US response, as expected, was massive.

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But for a minor fact - they invaded the WRONG country!
Taliban, and by extension, al Qaeda, was mince meat if not for the protection..

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.. by the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. No other proof of that is needed except the fact that Osama was hiding under Pak Army ..

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.. protection, barely a stone's throw from their premier military training academy. Yet, the only person that Pakistan has punished ..

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.. for the incident is Dr Shakil Afridi - the person who actually HELPED track Osama bin Laden.
Not to mention the countless US ..

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.. soldiers killed as a direct result of Pakistani security establishment's activities.
In the middle of it all, flowed more military..

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.. equipment to fight 'terror', NOT India. This included MR aircraft P-3 Orions, & F-22 Frigates, ostensibly to fight the Taliban Navy!

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What are the odds that part of the reason why retribution for 26/11 did not happen was because the US was still fighting the Taliban ..

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.. with Pakistan's 'help'?
Bottomline - Sell / Gift all the F-16s you wish to, to Pakistan. But calling it as ONLY aimed at fighting..

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.. terror and not aimed at India is bullshit of the highest order, not to mention an insult to your own soldiers killed in AfPak.

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History bears witness to the fact that no gun has been made yet, that can fire in only one direction. Least of all American ones.
JMTs