WASHINGTON: Suggesting that both India and the US conduct pre-emptive strikes inside Pakistan to destroy its nuclear sites, former US senator Larry Pressler says that Donald Trump may turn out to be the best American president yet for India as “he had recently put Pakistan on notice for harbouring terrorists”.
A three-term senator and twice elected as a member of the House of Representatives, Pressler authored the famous Pressler Amendment, which in 1990, blocked US military aid to Pakistan when the then US president George W Bush could not certify whether Pakistan was developing nukes or not.
In an interview with Times of India, Pressler said that Trump would have to get around the Pentagon, which always encouraged Pakistan.
Such encouragement emboldened Pakistan to call India “the mother of terrorism” and “predator” at the UN General Assembly session on Sunday, he added. Trump’s description of the Pentagon as “a swamp” was a good sign, he noted, hoping the US president would drain it soon, as he’d promised.
As the delivery of close to 30 F-16 aircraft to Islamabad was barred, Pressler, then a Republican and head of the Senate’s arms control subcommittee, became something of a hero in India and, in his own words, “a devil in Pakistan.”
His new book, Neighbours in Arms, engagingly tells the story of the amendment and of the US foreign policy that enabled Pakistan to develop nuclear weapons and casts a severe spotlight on the culture of lobbying in Washington and the grip of the military-industrial state (“the Octopus”) inside the US.
“US must declare Pakistan a terrorist state, cut off all aid and must not treat India and Pakistan as equals. India is a democracy, Pakistan isn’t. And Pakistan has lied to us for decades,” he said.
Pressler also said that that it was good the Modi government was tough with Pakistan.
Using or “Taking Out” nukes is absolutely insane. That would be the end. Such talk reflects immaturity. Only thing that can be managed is the “management” of persons who control these toys.
Sir, do You mean International Joker, who is Dwarfing Holly Wood’s all Funny Movies, while enjoying luxuries of White House?
Shows the sheer lack of maturity in this insane person. As if they haven’t done enough damage already by invading Afghanistan and iraq. Apparently he thinks America is some kind of a saintly nation, even though it is the only nation responsible for causing the most massive nuclear tragedy in history.
Larry Presser is an old lackey of India, and his comments show his complete lack of understanding for the world order.
Pakistan is not a banana republic US & IND both know about our army strength & defense capabilities
We know how courageous the US army and their allies hindu?we hate India and America and fully aware of their nrefarious intention.They cannot fight against the people of Pakistan.Their fighting spirit and capability has exposed in Afghanistan
.It is slsò in our knowledge that America has not stationed in Afghanistan to restore peace in Afghanistan rather to destabilize nueclear pakistan with the collaboration of India.
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