Stephen Cohen
Stephen Cohen
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Both sides have tried all alternatives - ranging from ignoring the other side (India), to the use of force (Pakistan), to the threat of the use of force (India again). Now both sides have run out of options other than to sit across the table and talk.
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People saw this as a sign of his own weakness -- that he had to run to the Americans for protection. The United States is not the most popular country in Pakistan.
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But critics of the war have no reason to regret their views.
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On March 11, 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev became leader of the Soviet Union, and within a few weeks the full-scale reformation he attempted to carry out both inside his country and in its cold war relations with the West, particularly the United States, began to unfold.
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We were tied up in Korea; we were worried about the Russians. And, conceivably, they said 'nuclear' because they didn't want him to do anything for India; that this was a way of raising the stakes so high as to make it not an option.
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Twenty years later, then, little, if anything, is left of the historic opportunities Gorbachev opened up for his country and the world.
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The opportunities that Gorbachev created for international relations have also been missed, perhaps even lost - here, however, primarily because of the United States.
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For India, it's very, very important, very symbolic to be given the key to this club.
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The nuclear agreement attempts to cut through this past history, and offer to India a tailor-made 'regime' outside of the NPT.
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Pakistan already has a similar law but its record speaks for itself.
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As long as that's the case, they can talk about working together against us, or sharing their views about us, but in fact they come to (work with) us in the last analysis.