Zardari’s Admission
By Rummuser. Filed in Raves and Rants, Religion, Sociology, Uncategorized |Tags: India, Pakistan, Taleban
Today’s Times of India has an interesting editorial. What many of us in India have been predicting and cautioning about has come about. Sixty years of hatred towards India, jealousy and envy of India’s achievements as an alternative to a theocratic state, a desire to cause damage to India through the promotion of and active support to Islamists to terrorize India, a desire to take revenge for military defeats after repeated attempts at war, etc, have finally turned the monster created by Pakistan to turn itself against its creator.
Denial of truth, duplicity and betrayal have finally resulted in Pakistan’s establishment to accept that their ways have failed and are about to cause damage to themselves.
Quite what happens to Pakistan is their business. What can happen to India is ours. I have written a letter to the editor of the Times of India which reads as follows:
Dear Sir,
This refers to the editorial “Zardari’s Admission” that appeared in your today’s edition.
India will face tremendous difficulties when, not if, the Taliban take over even the territory just bordering Pakistan and Afghanistan. Our opinion makers and leaders do not seem to foresee the problem of Pakistani refugees that will flood India. These will meet with hostility and their very move towards India will cause problems for the Muslims in India.
Kashmir will once again be prone to mischief from the Tribals from the Pathan areas and unless our armed forces are equipped and on alert the Taliban will try to bring about in Kashmir and then on to the rest of India, what they have
already achieved in Pakistan.
Our leadership has not yet come to grips with this issue and particularly the issue of local elements that support LeT etc. There has been no news whatsoever about the six persons who are claimed to have arrived with the ten accounted for in the Mumbai carnage. Their local supporters are yet to be apprehended and the story goes on.
The time for politcking is long past and we need to protect our land from imminent catastrophy.
RAMANA RAJGOPAUL
In another related development, U.S Envoy Richard Holbrooke has been in India and the Voice of America has this to say about his meetings here.
Two other articles will be of interest to my American readers. The first one is about the Taliban and Pakistan making peace with each other and the other, quite what the Taleban is doing in the USA.
In a response to Conrad, I had said that events will overtake us and we shall be left watching catastrophe develop, unless we realize what we are up against and unite to protect non Islamic ways of life. Events are beginning to overtake us much earlier than I had anticipated.
I leave my readers to interpret these news items and come to their own conclusions. My Indian readers, I hope will understand my angst and despair.
Tuesday, February 17th 2009 at 21:25 |
We live in very troubled times……perilous times. All I can do is pray to God for deliverance.
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Rummuser Reply:
February 19th, 2009 at 13:25
@Delirious, Yes indeed. You and I at least have our votes that can speak for us. Once the Taliban takes control, Pakistan will deny that to its citizens.
Wednesday, February 18th 2009 at 00:14 |
“For its part, the government is handicapped because of its failure to offer good governance, guarantee livelihoods, and restore people’s faith in the frayed judicial system.”
That quote pretty much sums up why the militants are doing so well. Some people in the US are saying we shouldn’t be fighting the Taliban, we should be persuading them to break their ties with Al Qaeda. The argument is we can’t reform the whole world…we can’t even protect the ordinary Afghan from corruption and violence.
Thanks for the links and for writing about this.
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Rummuser Reply:
February 19th, 2009 at 13:23
@Jean Browman–Cheerful Monk, At some point of time, this will have to be said. In all countries where this exists, including India, extremists crop up and flourish. In India we have a non religious phenomenon called the Naxalites, also known as Maoists, who cause a lot of damage in fairly large parts of our country, primarily in the poor and tribal areas.
Thursday, February 19th 2009 at 03:04 |
Whenever I come here, Ramana I learn so much from what I read in your postings. Thank you for keeping us informed, it gives me more of a worldly view which I need in my small corner of the world.
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Rummuser Reply:
February 19th, 2009 at 13:21
@Renee, Thank you for your very kind words. You truly inspire me. Those words coming from a pro, are music to my ears.
Thursday, February 19th 2009 at 06:00 |
Ramana, every turn of the screw, the situation seems more ominous. On 60 Minutes, there was an analysis that Zardari had accepted the battle against the Taliban as his own, but that the Pakistani people had not accepted it as their battle. If it is Zardari’s battle and this is how he wages it – well, it shows no hope at all.
Afghanistan looks no better. As one analyst said, you couldn’t bomb Afghanistan back into the Stone Age, you’d have to bomb them forward. Both countries seem like the perfect breeding ground for terrorism, the perfect countryside for hiding away. And one of the countries has nuclear weapons.
Because of this scenario and because of our 9/11, I am hoping that America does not develop tunnel vision and simply home in on the border region between these two countries, taking it’s eyes off of the region as a whole. The enmity between Pakistan and India is a powder keg awaiting a match, Pakistan is mostly out of control and Afghanistan is a nation that looks unbuildable by any outside government. Obama is at least aware that military might by itself can never solve this situation.
What do you know of other nations in the region, their vested interests and rivalries?
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Rummuser Reply:
February 19th, 2009 at 13:20
@Conrad, I am enthused by your question at the end of your comments. I am writing a piece on the subject which is more complex than can be accommodated in a response here. I shall post it anon.
Thursday, February 19th 2009 at 06:59 |
Every angle of the media has a vested interest in what it broadcasts. The perception of each viewer is based on cultural, emotional, religious or other baggage unless a person has evolved to move beyod these mental obstacles created within limited physical space.
An intriguing juxtaposition is offered by the film, Slumdog Millionnaire. Media have portrayed that the government has offered “better” housing/ living conditions to poor people from that area. Apparently, some people do not desire to change their way of life. Similarly, some people do not choose to shift how and what they take in with their senses. It is always possible to evolve to rise above thought and rediscover something else.
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Rummuser Reply:
February 19th, 2009 at 13:15
@Liara Covert, I draw your attention to my latest post on Slumdog Millionaire. Your observation is amazingly realistic! The film has evoked mixed reactions and reactions to those reactions and the cycle has started off in a merry go round! As an interested bystander, I am enjoying the show!
Thursday, February 19th 2009 at 11:30 |
Conrad,
I’ve read that Obama realizes we need a regional solution, but I haven’t heard what he proposes to do about it.
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Rummuser Reply:
February 19th, 2009 at 13:17
@Jean Browman–Cheerful Monk, Please see my response to Conrad.
Thursday, February 19th 2009 at 12:39 |
Jean, I’ve heard – and not heard – the same that you have. The man is really busy on a lot of fronts right now, so I expect details to emerge as soon as he has the chance.
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Rummuser Reply:
February 19th, 2009 at 13:16
@Conrad, The subcontinent here is eagerly awaiting something, anything except the platitudes that are doing the round.
Friday, February 20th 2009 at 03:32 |
Let’s hope we’re not all disappointed. In the fullness of time we shall see.
Jean Browman–Cheerful Monk´s last blog post..Not a Game for Control Freaks
Rummuser Reply:
February 20th, 2009 at 07:25
@Jean Browman–Cheerful Monk, Yes. I hope so too.