The US Role in the Conflict
by James Carroll
The U.S. role in the Indian/Pakistani conflict is the subject of a very
interesting and well documented essay by Michel Chossudovsky at the Centre
for Research on Globalisation (CRG) in Montreal.
Space doesn't permit reprinting the whole piece but we encourage readers
interested in more than the following summary to go to
http://globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO205C.html
Chossudovsky shows the US advising both sides on the conduct of war; arming
both sides in the conflict (which fuels America's military-industrial
complex); and developing joint military and intelligence cooperation with
both countries which enables the US to oversee the theater of an eventual
war. In the all-too-familiar paradigm "divide and rule," the US is
fracturing and impoverishing both countries with an eye to increasing
influence and control over both.
Bush's choice of Richard Armitage (linked to Iran-Contra and other scandals)
as State Department consultant to both sides furthers the view that the US
is intentionally fostering political instability in the region.
At the same time, the US is funding and arming Kashmiri separatist forces.
All of this support was authorized by the US Congress.
—RTP
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