[Reader-list] Is India Within Its Rights to Attack Pakistan?

[Vivek Narayanan]

Dear Pawan,

Again, you have presented this without comment.   I would like to know, 
are you, in fact, advocating an attack on Pakistan in response to these 
blasts?  That would be surprising, but if so, who, what and where should 
we attack?  Should we just drop a  nuclear bomb on Lahore?  Or perhaps 
we should send a team of twenty five commandos there to take over the 
major hotels and shoot Pakistani civilians randomly on the street?

And are you saying this would reduce the chances and possibilities for 
further attacks on Indian cities?  How?

Please let us proceed with great caution and think very carefully about 
what we want to say, or more innocents will suffer at the hands of the 
trigger-happy few (and their advocates).

Vivek

Pawan Durani wrote:
> From someones Blog :-
>
> "So here's the thing: If the U.S. was almost unanimously considered as being
> within its legal rights to attack Afghanistan after 9/11, wouldn't an Indian
> attack on Pakistan be equally justified? Doesn't a country have the right to
> defend its citizens from outside aggression? What, if not an act of war,
> would you call 10 simultaneous terrorist
> strikes<http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=105055855763538009401.00045c9d8b16af3ad1008&ll=19.095538,72.84472&spn=0.028428,0.030341&z=15>in
> a country's financial capital? And, most importantly, does the fact
> that
> both you and your opponent possess nuclear weapons mean you cannot retaliate
> at all?"
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