India Prepares Troops for 'Decisive Fight'

Indian PM Vajpayee:

``Whether our neighbor understands this signal or not, whether the world takes account of it or not, history will be witness to this. We shall write a new chapter of victory,'' he told soldiers in Kupwara, northern Kashmir.

``Let's work for victory. Be prepared for sacrifices. But our aim should be victory. Because it's now time for a decisive fight.''

Oh, that doesn't sound good. I think the odds of a full-scale war just went up, to at least 2:1 in favor. And if a war happens, there is an excellent chance that Pakistan will go nuclear. Even if it doesn't, the government will likely collapse once India wins the war -- which it will -- and Pakistan will go the way its neighbor to the north did a decade ago. Frankly, the remnants of the Taliban are already crossing the border, and it will be a stampede once Pakistani troops are pulled from there to the Indian border.