<In the case of India, however, because of its close ethnic and familial ties, I really have a harder time believing it's more than opportunistic sabre-rattling. >
SirR,
OJ cut his children's mother's throat.
USA civil war usacivilwar.com
USA independence war with Britain.
Mao vs Chiang
Romeo and Juliet
Andrea Yates drowned her 5 children cnn.com
Yugoslavia in tatters
Ypres
...there's no end of it...
Family fights are as old as forever...
Several wars already between India and Pakistan
Religious differences
Much murder during partition
They are fixin' to fight and will do so unless Pakistan pulls their damn horns in.
Terrorism in India is as bad as terrorism in the USA. People hurt just as much.
I will not be surprised if the second nuclear war is about to begin. What is surprising is that my decades of worry about the MAD Americans and totalitarian Stalinists turned out to be needless. Out of the blue come India and Pakistan, which will be a very limited nuclear exchange.
The UN should go into overdrive panic and the world should revamp the bloody thing into something with teeth, constitutions for places like Afghanistan, Kashmir and the like, finances and sovereign power of limited extent [like the USA federal system].
While everyone blunders around catching terrorists in each others' countries and generally behaving like animals, we are not going to make much progress.
The socialist bent of the UN has to be ditched. Telling people how to run their lives has to be ditched. A smothering, bureaucratic monster is not what's needed. George W and Tony Blair are in a position to make it happen. China, India, Japan, Russia and others would like it if something civil could be developed. The idea of Vanuatu having the same vote as India has got to go.
Votes according to funding and population are needed. India voting to spend USA money is not going to work.
Tony Blair is heading down that UN line. George W needs to pick up the pace and push it along. Jiang Zemin might like to be in on the act too. Putin and Musharraf too. It's really time for an international hui to sort it out.
Maybe hold it in Kashmir or Kabul or Palestine to give it the right flavour. Hey, an international hui could be held in cyberspace!! theworldcafe.com
A quote from that site...
<...abu atu te mata ki te ao marama kei kono nga reanga e utanga. (Maori proverb)
....Turn your face to the world of light. The generations yet unborn are waiting there for you. >
From the sidelines in Hobbitland,
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