{"id":6519,"date":"2008-10-08T05:41:44","date_gmt":"2008-10-08T05:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/drishtikone\/2008\/10\/imho-mccain-its-game-over\/"},"modified":"2008-10-08T05:41:44","modified_gmt":"2008-10-08T05:41:44","slug":"imho-mccain-its-game-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/drishtikone\/2008\/10\/imho-mccain-its-game-over\/","title":{"rendered":"IMHO, for McCain &#8211; Its Game Over."},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>I saw the Obama-McCain debate tonight.  IMHO \u2013 Its GAME OVER \u2026 for McCain.<\/p>\n<p>Unless something totally untowards happens, McCain is History as far as his Presidential ambitions are concerned.  He might as well quit rather than go into attacks that he will regret when he looking back at his life after retirement.  Last two week and \u2013 if he continues like this \u2013 the next two as well, will be the four weeks that he will MOST regret!<\/p>\n<p>Another thing, it is becoming pretty clear to me that at a time when Pakistan is unstable and elements of its Army may try to hit at India, and while it intensifies the selling of the Nuclear weapons \u2013 winning of Obama is AN IMPERATIVE FOR INDIA!  If what is known to many who have had evidence of Pakistani Nukes \u2013 the Chinese help, North Korea\u2019s help in missiles.. proliferation to Iran and Saudi Arabia\u2026 and if what is going on in the minds of the Pakistani establishment* right now is to be perceived, then instability of Pakistan will come at a terrible cost for India!<\/p>\n<p><i>*I was listening to a debate of Indian and Pakistani who\u2019s who compered by Geo and NDTV in Dubai and it was interesting as to what General Aslam Beg suggested that he thinks (and he seemed pretty charitable) that after the Iraq War, the foreign fighters will troop right into Kashmir just like it happened after the Afghan War after throwing Soviets out!  He SHOULD know!  He was one of the Architect of the entire \u201cinfrastructure\u201d for terrorism in India and specifically Kashmir.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><!--break--><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw the Obama-McCain debate tonight.  IMHO &#8211; Its GAME OVER &#8230; for McCain.<\/p>\n<p>Unless something totally untowards happens, McCain is History as far as his Presidential ambitions are concerned.  He might as well quit rather than go into attacks that he will regret when he looking back at his life after retirement.  Last two week and &#8211; if he continues like this &#8211; the next two as well, will be the four weeks that he will MOST regret!<\/p>\n<p>Another thing, it is becoming pretty clear to me that at a time when Pakistan is unstable and elements of its Army may try to hit at India, and while it intensifies the selling of the Nuclear weapons &#8211; winning of Obama is AN IMPERATIVE FOR INDIA!  If what is known to many who have had evidence of Pakistani Nukes &#8211; the Chinese help, North Korea&#8217;s help in missiles.. proliferation to Iran and Saudi Arabia&#8230; and if what is going on in the minds of the Pakistani establishment* right now is to be perceived, then instability of Pakistan will come at a terrible cost for India!<\/p>\n<p><i>*I was listening to a debate of Indian and Pakistani who&#8217;s who compered by Geo and NDTV in Dubai and it was interesting as to what General Aslam Beg suggested that he thinks (and he seemed pretty charitable) that after the Iraq War, the foreign fighters will troop right into Kashmir just like it happened after the Afghan War after throwing Soviets out!  He SHOULD know!  He was one of the Architect of the entire &#8220;infrastructure&#8221; for terrorism in India and specifically Kashmir.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1517,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,51,57,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-pakistan","category-politics","category-us"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>IMHO, for McCain - Its Game Over.<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I saw the Obama-McCain debate tonight. IMHO - Its GAME OVER ... for McCain. Unless something totally untowards happens, McCain is History as far as his Presidential ambitions are concerned. He might as well quit rather than go into attacks that he will regret when he looking back at his life after retirement. Last two week and - if he continues like this - the next two as well, will be the four weeks that he will MOST regret! Another thing, it is becoming pretty clear to me that at a time when Pakistan is unstable and elements of its Army may try to hit at India, and while it intensifies the selling of the Nuclear weapons - winning of Obama is AN IMPERATIVE FOR INDIA! If what is known to many who have had evidence of Pakistani Nukes - the Chinese help, North Korea&#039;s help in missiles.. proliferation to Iran and Saudi Arabia... and if what is going on in the minds of the Pakistani establishment* right now is to be perceived, then instability of Pakistan will come at a terrible cost for India! *I was listening to a debate of Indian and Pakistani who&#039;s who compered by Geo and NDTV in Dubai and it was interesting as to what General Aslam Beg suggested that he thinks (and he seemed pretty charitable) that after the Iraq War, the foreign fighters will troop right into Kashmir just like it happened after the Afghan War after throwing Soviets out! He SHOULD know! 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Last two week and - if he continues like this - the next two as well, will be the four weeks that he will MOST regret! Another thing, it is becoming pretty clear to me that at a time when Pakistan is unstable and elements of its Army may try to hit at India, and while it intensifies the selling of the Nuclear weapons - winning of Obama is AN IMPERATIVE FOR INDIA! 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