Reply #8: India Will Not Send Troops To Iraq

[LoneStarLiberal]

No way will India send combat troops to Iraq. They might send support untis but I don't think there is a very good possibility of that.

The first and foremost issue with India and the U.S. is Pakistan. The Indian government and Indian voting public care about the preferential treatment that the U.S. has afforded Muzzy in Pakistan and how we have rewarded his government with lavish amounts of aid while tying not one penny of it to the progress toward a peaceful Kashmir. They remember well that when India stood beside the U.S. as two of the world's foremost democracies, the U.S. took up with Pakistan, a military dictatorship, out of blatant convenience.

Although they were not seriously challenged, the ruling BJP-led coalition was recently threatened by a no-confidence vote from the Congress party led by an Italian with the last name of Gandhi. They have active terrorism both in Kashmir and recently in Bombay (Mumbai). The last time the Indian army was deployed overseas (granted it was a very short distance overseas), the LTTE gave them a beating they didn't forget for a long time and Tamil terrorism both occured on the continent while they were deployed and followed the Indian force home.

I don't see where there is any reason, any need, any incentive for the Indian government to further incite Islamic wrath at them by deploying to Iraq. Like I said in the beginning: Support troops possible but not probable, combat troops neither possible nor probable.