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Politics : Idea Of The Day

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To: George Mc Geary who wrote (40562)9/19/2001 5:22:49 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF  Read Replies (3) of 50167
 
<Because to get any troops to Afghanistan, we'd have to go through Pakistan. Would they let us? Not likely. The conquest of Pakistan would have to be first. Will other Muslim nations just stand by? You see where I'm going. We're flirting with a world war between Islam and the West.>

I agree with all of his points but this one point based on which the theory of Osama invincibility is developed is based on a premise that is completely presumptuous. From day one Pakistan government at least had no problems. I think that without Pakistan on America’s side his deductions would be material but I think he made an erroneous premises about this. Pakistan has not only allowed but the secret war against terrorism has already started the planning in my opinion is in very advanced stage, it is going to be swift and fast, and probably fought out of hinterland of Afghanistan capital. A Kabul lead government will most probably lead this fight around Kandhar and East of Afghanistan if Osama is not handed over very soon, the government in Kabul will be toppled in a time that may surprise many. I don’t think that anyone agrees about killing any poor Afghan; I have been hearing US offering a carrot by helping rebuilding the country and trying to get AFGHANISTAN BACK WITHIN COMITY OF RESPECTABLE NATIONS. They will be protected from this black terror that has cleansed them completely of any recuperative ability. Strongman heads all Muslim nations, mine included. These strong man are the target of Osama, he wants to lead the 1 billon masses he wants to be the ‘Ameer-ul-Momineen’ of the entire Muslim nation, he is already the leader of that under-class that detests progress hates freedom and likes to take us back to the middle ages, I for one in the Islamic world will fight against that to my last drop of blood.

Every conflict has different parameters, road map and resolutions, this is not Pearl harbour nor it is Gulf war, most of the time generalising conflicts and out of context references to history or past yield poor results. I think as a student of history we need to know that in present situation terrorist have taken hostage an entire land these terrorist are few thousands in number the cohorts of Laden and Mullah Omar are future Ladens, they are now available as whole bunch to be arrested and brought to justice, now some hostages may in the process suffer but overall this poverty stricken nation like mine own has to be released from these chains. Without that in my opinion huge mass geographical expanse of lands left to be governed by cave age man will bring about new lows in expression of hatred, what we saw in NY was the result of our total neglect and creation of vacuum, insular instinct and the feeling that we are protected has to be given way to see that evolution of a global thinking even in the extreme societies that they have to respect the basic law ‘innocents should not be made canon fodder of dispute.’ In NY exactly that happened, we need to see that it never happens again, never again. Vacuum anywhere should not be tolerated, an idle mind can become deranged, and world community can’t tolerate this vacuum and safe haven of terrorists. This is one bitter lesson of NY.
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