During the recent terrorist assault on Mumbai, India, an alleged ‘hoax’ phone call to the Pakistani government had the two countries on the razor’s edge of war.
According to reports Sunday, a man posing as India’s foreign minister called Pakistani President Asif Zardari on Friday, Nov. 28, and threatened military action if Islamabad did not hand over those behind the attacks, Pakistani newspapers reported on Saturday.
“I had made no such telephone call,” Mukherjee said in a statement explaining how India rushed to clarify that the call was a hoax.
Is there seriously no equivalent to the “red phone” connecting Pakistani and Indian leaders?
Can we make an amendment to the Constitution so that people who are unable to pronounce the word “nuclear” are disqualified from holding high office?
It’s the shibboleth for the retarded and the incompetent:
Here’s the transcript of Palin’s rambling, non-responsive answer:
Nuclear weaponry, of course, would be the be all, end all of just too many people in too many parts of our planet, so those dangerous regimes, again, cannot be allowed to acquire nuclear weapons, period.
Our nuclear weaponry here in the U.S. is used as a deterrent. And that’s a safe, stable way to use nuclear weaponry.
But for those countries — North Korea, also, under Kim Jong Il — we have got to make sure that we’re putting the economic sanctions on these countries and that we have friends and allies supporting us in this to make sure that leaders like Kim Jong Il and Ahmadinejad are not allowed to acquire, to proliferate, or to use those nuclear weapons. It is that important.
