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To: JD who wrote (49380)	11/3/2005 4:46:31 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Respond to of 50167

I concur and have been very vocal about this decade of peace.. The deliberate quietening of the hotspots of the world is not because of the fact that people have overnight realised that "end of war is great" and "concord and togetherness" is preferred over death, it is rather the global carrot and stick approach that has worked wonders. Though little credit will be ever given to the chain of events, we cannot help but to see things in isolation not continuity of strategy, present political changes in the world are the fastest since 1990 implosion of communism and need fresh insights. The hidden iron curtain descended upon nation of Islam by the self-styled tyrants and bunch of terrorists is finally lifting. Can we rejoice to think of new opportunities which freedom brings! iranian.ws Things between India and Pakistan look so rosy now, but not in the very distant past the two countries were about to go to war and faced a threat of nuclear annihilation. The countries have fought three wars in the past half century. The two gentlemen responsible for change, General Pervez Musharraf, President of Pakistan, and Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister of India, made the greatest step towards a permanent peace between their nations since the two countries were first established by the Partition in 1947. It was a series of meetings after a one-day cricket match in which India were utterly defeated. Simon Barnes puts it very passionately 'I should point out here that when I say India were defeated, I don't mean that Pakistan laid waste to the land, raped women, shot children, leveled cities and played football with severed heads. No. Pakistan won by 159 runs. Not a single person died. It was, you see, a sporting event. India and Pakistan had fought out -- though not actually fighting, of course -- a wonderfully fraught Test series, and followed it with a series of one-dayers. At the climax of these hostilities came the outbreak of peace.' In a joint statement, the two leaders said, 'the peace process was now irreversible.' In 2002 the two countries were daggers drawn. With the benefit of hindsight it seems appropriate to suggest that it was post 911 active engagements of belligerent powers that led to present peace between the neighbors that constitute nearly 20 percent of the world population. It looks very appropriate to deem that this very realization was indeed reached by the very pragmatic Indian leadership under the prodding of USA, when forces were daggers drawn and massive Indian build-up was about to derail the war on terror; it was the gentle handling of a crisis -- a direct consequence from post 911 strategy, a departure from insular American under Bush as we all envisaged; the Americans that kept the two nations focused on not becoming hostage to terror outfits. The legs most responsible to take Israel through the qualifying match for the soccer World Cup finals for the first time in 35 years belong to a devout Muslim. NYT writes that after his big goal against Ireland - the pun in Hebrew, on the word "equalizer," was that "finally an Israeli Arab gets equality" - Suan was hailed by numerous Israelis as "gibor Yisrael," a Biblical phrase meaning hero or savior of Israel. It was just a couple of years ago that at Wimbledon when the world saw a Muslim player being cheered on by Israeli fans...while the Pakistani fans were cheering for a Jew... All these were no-go areas for Muslims. The thaw has set in and the change is visible! Minuscule it might be by the exacting standards of the liberals, but a definite move forward. Today we are achieving the objective of peace, but those who helped cannot be forgotten. The shroud and garb of 'freedom fighters' has been torn; the terrorists with a global agenda of coercion are being accurately scrutinized. The world since 11th September has become a smaller place for these fringe elements. The blood money rewards for the ringleaders have made these leaders fear even their own shadows. If Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda represented a cancer within Islamic societies, 11th September is undoubtedly represents the day of reckoning when surgical removal of the tumor commenced and continues to treat the metastasis. Unlike other trigger incidences, we can safely say that 911 strategies did not bring a war between civilizations or a global war; rather, they expedited the 'spring revolution' and ignited the lost renaissance long awaited within the Islamic world. iranian.com