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Jaipur, and tribal truce.


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Jaipur, and tribal truce.

Topic started by GT on May 13, 2008 9:47:32 am


So, the Indian state could not prevent bombs going off in a crowded market. Six innocent guys are dead. A tribe has lashed out at another. A point is made by killing helpless members of the other tribe. The equilibrium between tribes is disturbed, the act is justified, ignored and condemned as per the requirements of respective tribalistic objectives. When the state does not do what it is supposed to do or fails to do what it is supposed to do, then the only way equilibrium can be brought back is when tribes DEMONSTRATE their ability to retaliate. Often, as we have seen time and again, this is done by killing other innocents. The point is to create so much horror that the equilibrium is not destroyed in the near future.

Equilibrium is restored but we move back to tribalism. What is the alternative? I really do not know. But I am toying with this strange thought that maybe .... just maybe ... the way out is to arm individuals ... I know this sounds a bit dramatic ... but I believe that it is a better option than making an INEFFICIENT state more POWERFUL.


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Post by laddu on May 13, 2008 6:25:52 pm

Boycott Pakistan !! Boycott Pakistanis!!


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Post by Salim_Chauhan on May 13, 2008 12:36:08 pm

Post by CreateAlpha on May 13, 2008 12:24:13 pm

{"look around the muslim world, there are fires going off, the jihadis wanted US out of muslims lands...well guess what...US is in more muslim lands now than ever before...."}

You stupid idiot. At $200M/day per country, how many countries do you think Dubya can afford to be in? ...and this yoyo is called a financial genius! :D


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Post by CreateAlpha on May 13, 2008 12:24:13 pm

GT, MAD worked when there is a prescribed command and control and communication mechanism (RED PHONE). In the case of combatting jihadis, it is asymmetric. What is needed is more insidousness....look around the muslim world, there are fires going off, the jihadis wanted US out of muslims lands...well guess what...US is in more muslim lands now than ever before....they have created a clear wedge between the jihadis and the rest of muslims...lebanon is burning,palestine is halved, SE Asia brand of militant islam is all but dead, chinese are sqeezing he life out of the uighers, pakistan is getting bombed by US drones, bi-weekly...and the Jihadis are claiming victory for Iraq bascially getting dismembered into three...ummah ki phati hui hai...these conflagrations like Jaipur etc are not worth getting upset over...it is a larger war...and the islamists are reeling. Except on the internet where they are devoid of reality and have Kaal as their new prophet:D


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Post by Salim_Chauhan on May 13, 2008 11:30:31 am

{"So, the Indian state could not prevent bombs going off in a crowded market."} *-)

GT,
...and neither could the Pakistani state, nor the UK monarchy, nor the US administration, nor the Spanish government, nor the Turkish rulers. 8-|

The best thing to do is to remove the root causes of terrorism by punishing those behind the actual terrorist and then solving the issues that motivate such acts. Abolutionist terror subsided and ended with the end of slavery. (T)


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Post by GT on May 13, 2008 10:27:49 am

CA,

Yes, I agree it is MAD. But actually I was thinking about it yesterday, not today. In Jammu 3 terrorist got into a politicians house and killed him and his wife and injured their daughter (the brave jihadis that they are). Then they slipped into another house and took the family hostage as the army surrounded them. They casually they shot a girl in the family and threw the body out ....

.... why do such things happen all the time in Heengbustan? If the above mentioned families were armed they would have at least died fighting ....


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Post by CreateAlpha on May 13, 2008 10:13:20 am

MAD


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