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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: kumar who wrote (94178)4/17/2003 11:05:31 PM
From: Dayuhan  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 

Of course, the politicians have different motives, and thats where noise comes from.

The politicians wouldn't be making that noise if they didn't think it was striking a chord somewhere.

You compared the Gujarat violence to the LA riots. I said that the difference was the presence of Pakistan. Look at it this way. For purposes of discussion, let's reduce the LA riots to a race conflict, white people and black people fighting each other. Now, hypothetically, imagine that Mexico was a nation entirely composed of black people. Imagine further that the black people in Mexico were firmly convinced that their brethren in the US were being violently repressed, and that the white people in the US were as convinced that the black people in Mexico were the ones stirring up the violence. Imagine that the black people in Mexico had a nuke or two. Imagine that there was a powerful black power movement active in Mexico, and that there was a real possibility of that movement taking over the country.

Don't you think that would complicate matters just a little bit?

I think you may be oversimplifying matters just a little bit. I wouldn't say the problem is imminent and desperate, but all the symptoms of a problem are there, and if Pakistan goes Islamist I expect it would get a lot worse very fast.
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