2004: One Year Closer to Nineteen Eighty-four

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arjun,

``My feelings?...i have no feelings..couldn`t care less...``

Exactly...all sympathy is with the small number of Russians dead...at this point I tune you out....needless to say, armies that use a disproportionate application of power and slaughter hapless civilians do indeed share an idelogy. You just happen to agree with it. Why sugar coat it?

``Your stronger feelings on the killings of civilians is because of your adherence to your religion..to me, it reinforces my belief that in a conflict between a non-mulim entity and muslims, muslims are required to come down on the side of their co-religionists``

Actually, it`s called ``common decency``....

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arjun_m,

``Some would claim the Indian army is using a ``disproportionate application of power`` in Kashmir...do you oppose that too?``

I most certainly did when they were...as I would if they did the same in any other area of India. But you and I know very well that the terrorism in that area is pretty much Pak Irregular soldiers. But, since a state backs it, I suppose that makes it ``all right``...

``A decency that was in short supply when iraqi civilians were being killed by saddam...how many marches were there in India against that? zero.. ``

My point exactly. Why the sudden orgasm of righteousness when terrorism is involved, but if some state does worse, everyone turns the other way? And look at how they get rid of him…when he was pretty much de-fanged, the world continued to starve his people, left this idiot in charge, then started to invoke his past history (when he was the good guy) and killed some 10k more Iraqis….and it’s the 2.5k deaths we’re all declaring a war on terrorism on!!! Duh…it doesn’t add up.

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arjun,

This sudden fit of realpoltic demonstrates exactly the same mentality as the terrorist. Idelogy-schmedology...that`s a laugable way of linking two unrelated conflicts.

Ms. Shiralli, I dont want to be rude..but Im truly sick of reading about the war on iraq. Most of the points you have raised have already been dealt with by countless articles all around the world, and even here on chowk. Look we all know theres stuff going on out there that isnt right. However, most of us are not American citizens, and there is no point going on and on and on about how Bush is a big bad white man - John Kerry will not be much different!
Lets concentrate on ourselves - and believe me theres plenty of material. Still I applaud your effort and look forward to your next article.

Thank you for your comments. Yet, again, my gender is male.