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Danger Room - Wired Blogs: "Petraeus to Pakistan: Forget About India
By Nathan Hodge EmailApril 22, 2009 | 8:52:00 AMCategories: Agony of A-Stan, Perils of Pakistan, Strategery

Petraeus_testimony_2 CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts -- For more than six decades, Pakistan and India have been enemies: The two countries fought a series of wars, the most recent of which left an estimated 4,000 Pakistanis dead. And last year's spree killings in Mumbai were traced to a Pakistani militant group with government ties.

But yesterday, at a forum here at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, U.S. Central Command chief General David Petraeus had a message for the Pakistanis: Get over it. These days, your biggest enemy isn't India. It's home-grown extremists."