Body Count

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Sat Dec 7 10:02:51 PST 2002


Ulhas Joglekar wrote:
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> I will take a hypothetical situation. A group of 5 Afghans is trained,
> armed, financed by ISI, they infiltrate into Indian Kashmir and blow up
> Kashmir legislative assembly. They escape and hide into caves of Taliban
> ruled Afghanistan. What do you expect Indian government to do?

I expect then _not_ to go to war, whatever else they do. This is _not_, in the present condition of world affairs, a legitimate _casus belli_, for the ill results of any war (for everyone) will far transcend the damage which you describe here. India perhaps should provide better guards at the kashmir legislative assembly. If some criminals (international or national) still break through, that's the way the cookie crumbles. One does the best one can to prevent certain evils, but if they happen, one lives with them.

I do the best I can to keep mosquitoes out of the house, but if one gets in, I don't throw a hand grenade in the living room to destroy it. That's what the U.S. is doing now. That's what India would be doing if it went to war to catch those who blew up the assembly.

Carrol

Provide
> evidence to Mulla Omar, who will promptly handover suspects to India? Is
> this like Sicily?



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