For your ignorance, Hindu the word was used by the Greeks to address all the people who live around the river Sindu, which is in Pakistan. So just keep your mouth shut.
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Inside Pakistan's New War on Terror
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The Bush administration's resistance to the new approach is likely to die away quickly. In a little noted comment on April 14, Rice noted that a "new strategic opportunity" had arisen with Pakistan's democratic transition and that "Pakistan now will need to find a way to have very solid civilian control of the armed forces." The new Islamabad government's hopes lie with her, Hayden and other savvy players such as Defense Secretary Bob Gates and incoming CENTCOM commander Gen. David Petraeus.
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Note: In my column last week, "How the South Won (This) Civil War," I used some careless language to describe certain tendencies in Southern and frontier thinking. When I wrote that after the settlement of the South and frontier by Scots-Irish immigrants, "a substantial portion of the new nation developed, over many generations, a rather savage, unsophisticated set of mores," I didn't mean to say that these tendencies described any particular ethnic group today, or that such mores are representative in general of the thinking of people in the South or West, only that they had emerged historically among some subsections of the population as part of the Jacksonian warrior culture in those regions.
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