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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Jacob Snyder who wrote (114621)9/13/2003 1:55:45 AM
From: k.ramesh  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
Other places that have nothing - Tibet, North Dakota,Yukon..
To say that Kashmir has nothing and hence is negotiable, ignores georgraphy for one thing. Kashmir is on one side of the Himalayas, China on the other. It is the most natural boundary defining India in the minds of a billion people. India has a collective memory of invaders from the NorthWest pouring in from about 1100 - 1600. It also reinforces the secularism that Indians have come to accept as the only sane way of dealing with diversity.
Kashmir is 1% of India's population 10/1100 million. So if nations lived by the bottomline alone, Indians would not have continued the struggle to convince,cajole,and at times coerce Kashmir to see the bigger picture for 50 years.
As for India hesitating to send troops, a 12% muslim population is one part of the story. There is the reality of coalition governments that can collapse any moment. Then there is the national myth that Indians hold dear of never having invaded any other nation. Everything anyone needed was already here etc.

Of course being part of a UN peace keeping force is not invasion. But with all the phony talk of the UN providing a 'fig leaf' for other nations, 'putting an Iraqi face' etc. you have to wonder who is buying any of this. Any one who can read a newspaper in any language can see through these feeble attempts. And Indian elections have proved in the past that even 'illiterate masses' can figure out for themselves if they are being fooled.
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