Introduction Continued

Pro Considerations:

     Proponents argue that the India-Pakistan conflict affects the United States to a great extent. While both nations' governments fight their individual wars against these terrorists, the India-Pakistan animosity, which has been extant since 1947, creates a great deal of turmoil especially in the Kashmir area, where terrorists can easily congregate. The United States must prevent the India-Pakistan conflict, so that all three nations can work together. The only effective way to achieve this is to hold series of summits while at the same time keeping the combatants separated. Only by recognizing how detrimental the India-Pakistan animosity is for fighting terror, can the United States hope to remain friendly with these nations while fighting terrorists beside them.

1. After the Taj Mahal Hotel rampage, peacekeepers are necessary to prevent tension from developing into tragedy.
2. India and Pakistan are both nations that possess nuclear weapons and both are capable of using them against one another. Such a catastrophic event would not be in the global interest and a buffer zone of peacekeepers would help keep tensions under wraps.
3. A stronger relationship between the United States, Pakistan, and India would aid the global fight against terror.
4. To prevent future conflict, a Kashmiri territorial settlement must be reached.
5. Global peace and global trade is reliant on the world community's ability to communicate and cooperate. Keeping the two armed forces apart will allow both sides to begin the process of negotiations. 

Con Considerations:

    Opponents argue that the United States has no business interfering in the affairs of these two developing nations. Furthermore, the US does not have money to spend on Pakistan and India, and this force would most likely raise tensions rather than easing them. In fact, both India and Pakistan's major newspapers have stated that the South Asian people would prefer to solve their own independent problem. Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif told US officials, that the United States should stay away from Pakistan's military affairs. Indian Newspapers and Pakistani envoys to India agree that the United States help is unwanted. Opponents of this resolution maintain that the issue remains that the United States tends to display bias toward one nation or the other. During the Clinton Administration, India was favored in the Kargil War, but as the Bush Administration comes to an end, we see how many more billions of dollars the US has funded Pakistan than India in her war against terror. Our help is unwanted, biased, and futile; the US simply has no place in the region.

1. The United States should remain out of regional conflicts between two allies.
2. America must concentrate on its own domestic problems, not India or Pakistan's.
3. A peacekeeping force would most likely require massive amounts of American military aid, aid that America can not afford to give.
4. The India-Pakistan crisis is rooted in centuries-old religious hatred. There is little the United States can do to solve the crisis and will most likely inflame tensions.
5. If both sides were willing to find a solution, they would be instigating such talks themselves, without United States assistance or interference.

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