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

[Pawan Durani]

Hello Ravi,

It is not about the rhetoric..... it is about HOW MUCH , HOW LONG and TILL
WHEN ?

Pawan

On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 10:59 AM, Ravi Agarwal <ravig64 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear all,
> I do not write on these issues. However what has happened is not something
> which concerns people of one ideology or another, or without any. It
> concerns all of us, even those who choose to remain quiet, but who observe,
> absorb and react to everything going on around us.
>
> It has been said before but it needs to be said again that it is not in
> terms of nation states, or religious divides alone we need to think. These
> may be issues which do not fit into categories of nation states. It is
> futile to talk about India /Pakistan,  Hindu/ Muslim, when the situation is
> far more complicated and complex. Every one of us can sense
> that complexicity, even though we do not know how to grasp it.
>
> It is not useful for those of us to hear the usual rhetoric all the time.
> If
> people can help others understand the different aspects of this complex
> story, then it will help us all. Else I think many people like me are tired
> of this rhetoric, and have already moved beyond this. It does not help us
> understand better, and does not clear our confusions.
>
> Rather than rhetoric, it will be more helpful to hear stories/ narratives/
> evidence etc, for example. These are the ways of understanding and knowing.
> Otherwise if people want to just slug it out, it is really what they want
> to
> do, not others.
>
> best and thanks
> ravi agarwal
>
>
>
> On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 10:45 AM, Pawan Durani <pawan.durani at gmail.com
> >wrote:
>
> > Hello Vivek,
> >
> > How long would India keep suffering like this? How long would the
> innocents
> > keep losing their lives ? How long would the terrorists bring cities to
> > halt
> > ? How long would we remain spineless ?
> >
> > We have been taken for granted.
> >
> > For decades India has been telling the world that "terrorrirst training
> > camps" are being run by Pak Army in POK and India claims to have proof.
> If
> > India is so confidant , let them carry on air raids on these camps.
> >
> > Else , India does not have to fool all of us.
> >
> > It is time , WE ACT.
> >
> > Pawan Durani
> >
> >
> >
> > How lo
> > On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 8:01 PM, Vivek Narayanan <vivek at sarai.net>
> wrote:
> >
> > > 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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