{"id":178127,"date":"2019-02-27T20:47:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-28T01:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/02\/27\/kind-of-like-west-side-story-with-nukes\/"},"modified":"2019-02-27T20:47:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-28T01:47:00","slug":"kind-of-like-west-side-story-with-nukes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/02\/27\/kind-of-like-west-side-story-with-nukes\/","title":{"rendered":"Kind of Like West Side Story, With Nukes"},"content":{"rendered":"
I am referring, of course, to the recent hostilities between India and Pakistan in Kashmir<\/a>: <\/div>\n

In the most ominous military confrontation between India and Pakistan since both tested nuclear weapons two decades ago, Pakistan said it shot down two Indian military aircraft over its territory Wednesday and launched strikes in Indian-controlled Kashmir, while India claimed it shot down a Pakistani fighter jet in the \u201caerial encounter.\u201d <\/p>\n

An especially volatile aspect of the confrontation was Pakistan\u2019s capture of an Indian fighter pilot. Pakistani military officials posted a photo of him on Twitter sitting in a room, and they said he was being treated \u201cper norms of military ethics.\u201d <\/p>\n

But Pakistani television showed a video<\/a> of the pilot, blindfolded and apparently with blood on his face. India\u2019s Foreign Ministry said it \u201cstrongly objected to Pakistan\u2019s vulgar display of an injured personnel\u201d and expected \u201chis immediate and safe return.\u201d<\/p>\n

While experts warned that the clash could easily escalate out of control, Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan told his nation Wednesday that he wanted to avoid war with India, saying, \u201cLet\u2019s settle this with talks.\u201d There was no public statement, however, by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.  <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I really hope that this does not get out of hand, because there are no good dance numbers involving nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am referring, of course, to the recent hostilities between India and Pakistan in Kashmir: In the most ominous military confrontation between India and Pakistan since both tested nuclear weapons two decades ago, Pakistan said it shot down two Indian military aircraft over its territory Wednesday and launched strikes in Indian-controlled Kashmir, while India claimed …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[394,477,402,373,377],"class_list":["post-178127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-foreign-relations","tag-nuclear-weapons","tag-south-asia","tag-terrorism","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178127"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}