Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2017 15:25:59 -0400
From: Roland Francis <roland.fran...@gmail.com>
To: goa...@goanet.org
Subject: [Goanet] India and Pakistan - Change Your Mindsets.
News today says that India's Defence Minister Arun Jaitley declares that
"Terrorists in Kashmir are under great pressure".
This is typically peacock-preening behaviour on the part of India.
It is high time both countries opened their eyes and realized their
hostility is unnecessary and inimical to each other. There is so much
development that needs to be done for the welfare of their citizens with
money that is currently being frittered in huge military spending that
would become redundant if they take steps to eradicate hostility and
build trust.
If you open the TOI "Pay Tributes" (obits) section, you will see the
death notices of young Indian career commissioned officers between the
ages of 25 and 35 losing their lives on the northern fronts. The non
commissioned officers and soldiers are not represented. Their families
are too poor and illiterate to put such tributes.
In a war the top brass, the politicians and bureaucrats are far from the
front. They don't experience the magnitude of the suffering their
pseudo-nationalism and puffy chests cause. All they know is to put up
hostile demonstrations of false valour like can be seen at sunset at
Wagah on the India-Pakistan border every day.
The British have long gone and time has long surpassed the memories of
their betrayal and treachery in the form of Mountbatten's callousness in
a total hands-off reaction when slaughter was taking place at
independence time.
Time for them to forget the past and make use of their common culture
and language to find things that bind them and make them prosperous.
Roland Francis
Toronto.
Hear! Hear!
India and Pakistan look like a mix of Western Germany (RRD) vs. Eastern
Germany (DDR) - now resolved, if not always elegantly, and Greece vs.
Turkey . still unresolved, alas.
My re-interporetation of Clausewitz' famous dictum: "Foreign war is the
continuation of _domestic_ politics by other means " ...
Cheers from Pula/Pola, Istria, the former Austro-Hungarian empire's main
naval port, now entirely peaceful ....
p+2D!
