At the Whitehouse.gov today: Press Briefing by Scott McClellan: "Q Thank you. This is a serious question. It sounds a bit selfish, but at some point will the White House or Homeland Security put out suggestions or regulations for Americans how to deal with the possibility of nuclear fallout, because if there is, God forbid, a war, it's going to hit here, too. "

Asia Times: India/Pakistan: "In other words, the general is saying that unless the US and other Western countries bring India around to accepting Islamabad's call for a plebiscite in Kashmir, the consequences could be dire indeed. "

Asia Times: India/Pakistan: "Senior intelligence sources say that Pakistan will try to convince nations that the Kashmiri movement is not terrorism but a pure uprising on the part of the indigenous people seeking the right to self-determination. Under rules guiding the 1947 partition of British India that gave birth to India and Pakistan, overwhelmingly Muslim Kashmir went to Indian control because its Hindu maharajah wanted it."

 

This puts context on a very worrying situation, and escalates my anxiety.

Asia Times: India/Pakistan: "However, given the significant disproportionality of conventional military power between the two, the chances of Pakistan's ratcheting up of that limited war are high. That is what worries the US government the most. "

 

Public opinion in India is such that they want to teach Pakistan a lesson, so a limited war would be good, but Pakistan has said that it won't take any shit, and will strike with nukes.