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2006-05-21 India-Pakistan

Militants threaten to disrupt Kashmir peace talks

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Posted by Fred 2006-05-21 00:00|| || Front Page|| [8 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 it occurs to me that the "militants" have shot their wad. At some point, the shock value of terrorism wears off and it becomes business as usual. Like auto accidents. 40,000+ die annually from auto accidents in the US. Death in an auto accident is a threat before every meeting or peace talk. But because it is so common, it has little impact.

Terrorists acts are beginning to have the shock value of auto accidents. The media keeps hyping them, but no one really is listening except those who were personally affected by it. As a weapon, terrorism's value is decreasing with each event.

Posted by 2b 2006-05-21 04:35|| 2006-05-21 04:35|| Front Page Top

#2 Even more so in India, where for a lot of people, life is cheap.
The death rate in Kashmir is dwarfed by traffic accidents in Delhi and Mumbai.

India doesn't consider itself in occupation of Jammu Kashmir and it will never surrender this state to Pakistan or grant it "independence" (where it beomes an islamist entity that threatens the gangetic plains). It is simply too strategic.

India has so many soldiers and police that it can swamp a region with security forces and grind down insurgencies over decades.

The Indian army has probably lost soldiers to combat every week for the last hundred years.
It expect this. There is no whining about this.
Counter-insurgency is taken as a necessary, expected, duty.

During the Raj there were insurgencies and wild areas barely under control. After independence, several insurgencies continue for decades, many backed by outside powers.

When an army continually fights in urban areas, villages, in deserts, mountains, glaciers, forests, jungles, plains and swamps.... when it readily accepts casualties... when it has manpower reserves in the millions.. no "militants" can defeat it or cause it to give up.

Posted by john 2006-05-21 10:30|| 2006-05-21 10:30|| Front Page Top

#3 India needs to rethink and settle the Kashmire problem. By settle I mean retroduce Hindus to the region and slowly use the Army to Over-Creep the area. The Paki can do no more than they're already doing and China is trying to go straight and is no longer the kick-ass big-brother of Pakistan.

Posted by 6 2006-05-21 11:01|| 2006-05-21 11:01|| Front Page Top

#4 The Hindu, Buddhist and Sikh populations are minorities in Kashmir.

Hundreds of thousands of the Hindus - the Pandits (Nehru himself was a Pandit) were driven out by the jihadis. Many still live in refugee camps, one of the largest internally displaced populations in the world.

Even if they were reintroduced, they would be a vulnerable minority.

Settling other hindus, outsiders, would violate the Indian constitution and the laws of Jammu and Kashmir.

Posted by john 2006-05-21 11:13|| 2006-05-21 11:13|| Front Page Top

#5 Settling other hindus, outsiders, would violate the Indian constitution and the laws of Jammu and Kashmir.

Seems to me that having jihadis cross the LOC and whack locals and Indian military also violates the Indian constitution and the laws of Jammu and Kashmir. Whatever the joint governments of India and Jammu & Kashmir decide about stopping that nonsense, short of selling out, is fine by me.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2006-05-21 16:53|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2006-05-21 16:53|| Front Page Top

#6 I seem to have been rendered nameless ?

Posted by john 2006-05-21 18:30|| 2006-05-21 18:30|| Front Page Top

#7 John it's the mods..they git moody on Sundays.

Posted by RD 2006-05-21 19:52|| 2006-05-21 19:52|| Front Page Top

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