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Walking India and Pakistan back from the brink of nuclear war ought to be easy, since - as the old adage goes - nobody wins a nuclear war. But the challenge facing the U.S. and other Western mediators derives from the fact that both sides appear to believe they can fight a limited war without going nuclear, and that both sides fear the consequences of backing off right now. Mediation is further complicated by the limited leverage available to Washington to restrain both sides from marching into what, the best intentions notwithstanding, could turn out to be more than just a "limited...
...FROM THE TIME ARCHIVE Streets Red With Blood To The Brink Inside the Hurricane Stories Since...
...angst you are prey to in the deeper watches of the night? But you truck on out to the theater, and find yourself confronting a well-made, even occasionally witty, thriller in the "Fail Safe", "Seven Days in May" vein. Once more, dear friends, on to the brink. You come away reasonably pleased with a slick Hollywood fantasy...
...even in India, that Musharraf was destined to be Pakistan's Kemal Ataturk - the nationalist general who founded a modern, secular Turkey on the ruins of the Ottoman Empire. But now that terror attacks from militants based in Pakistan-controlled territory have brought the South Asian rivals to the brink of war, there's a growing fear that Musharraf may instead turn out to be Pakistan's Yasser Arafat - a domestically weak leader caught between his obligations to the West and to his neighbors, on the one hand, and his own instincts and the passions of his power base...
...Musharraf could sell the decision to support the war in Afghanistan as an existential imperative for Pakistan, Kashmir was different. The battle to wrest that territory from Indian control is an article of faith of Pakistani nationalism, and nowhere more so than in the military. Moreover, the almost permanent brink-of-war-with-India condition that derives from the unresolved conflict over Kashmir has long been the centerpiece of the military's claim to govern Pakistan. And Musharraf, of course, is not an elected politician, but simply the latest in the parade of generals that have ruled Pakistan for most...