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2007-07-04 India-Pakistan

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Posted by lotp 2007-07-04 07:46|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top
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#1 If ever there was a country worthy of nuking its this one!!!!

Posted by Paul 2007-07-04 09:29|| 2007-07-04 09:29|| Front Page Top

#2 The best thing we could do for the world is turn that region into uninhabitable glass.

Posted by anymouse">anymouse 2007-07-04 09:33|| 2007-07-04 09:33|| Front Page Top

#3 Mouse: If President-General Musharraf tumbles, your dreams will come true. An Indian "Raj" (rule) will not be long in coming, I assure you.

Posted by Besoeker 2007-07-04 10:00|| 2007-07-04 10:00|| Front Page Top

#4 'Great will the slaughter be, O monarch, in this battle. I see here also (numerous) omens indicative of terror. Hawks and vultures, and crows and herons, together with cranes, are alighting on the tops of trees and gathering in flocks. These birds, delighted at the prospect of battle, are looking down (on the field) before them.

Carnivorous beasts will feed on the flesh of elephants and steeds. Fierce herons, foreboding terror, and uttering merciless cries, are wheeling across the centre towards the southern region.

In both the twilights, prior and posterior, I daily behold, O Bharata, the sun during his rising and setting to be covered by headless trunks. Tri-coloured clouds with their extremities white and red and necks black, charged with lightning, and resembling maces (in figure) envelope the sun in both twilights.

I have seen the sun, the moon, and the stars to be all blazing. No difference in their aspect is to be noted in the evening. I have seen this all day and all night.

All this forbodes fear. On even the fifteenth night of the lighted-fortnight in (the month of) Kartika, the moon, divested of splendour, became invisible, or of the hue of fire, the firmament being of the hue of the lotus. Many heroic lords of earth, kings and princes, endued with great bravery and possessed of arms resembling maces, will be slain and sleep lying down on the earth.

Daily I notice in the sky during night time the fierce cries of battling boars and cats. The images of gods and goddesses sometimes laugh, sometimes tremble, and sometimes again these vomit blood through their mouths and sometimes they sweat and sometimes fall down.

O monarch! drums, without being beaten, give sounds, and the great cars of Warriors move without (being drawn by) animals yoked to them. Kokilas, wood-peckers, jaws, water-cocks, parrots, crows, and peacocks, utter terrible cries. Here and there, cavalry soldiers, cased in mail, armed with weapons, send forth fierce shouts. At sun-rise flights of insects, by hundreds are seen.

In both twilights, the cardinal quarters seem to be ablaze, and the clouds, O Bharata, shower dust and flesh. She, O king, who is celebrated over the three worlds and is applauded by the righteous, even that (constellation) Arundhati keepeth (her lord) Vasistha on her back.

The planet Sani also, O king, appeareth afflicting (the constellation) Rohini. The sign of the deer in the Moon hath deviated from its usual position. A great terror is indicated. Even though the sky is cloudless, a terrible roar is heard there. The animals are all weeping and their tears are falling fast.'

Mahabharata, Book 6 (Bhisma Parva), section II

Posted by lotp 2007-07-04 10:17|| 2007-07-04 10:17|| Front Page Top

#5 I think roughly 2/3 of Pakistan is non-Islamist and 1/3 is Islamist. In money, skills and assets the divide is even larger. Unfortunately in WILL the Islamists have an overwhelming advantage. The same pattern, to greater or lesser degree, is repeated throughout the Muslim world. For most Pakistanis, as for most Westerners, there is no willingness to act, no belief system that drives them to defend it; "It's all about meeee!" rules. And an Army of One is an army of none.

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2007-07-04 10:43|| 2007-07-04 10:43|| Front Page Top

#6 Or, more succinctly:

Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds - Bhagavad Gita

Which is where the situation in Pakistan is leading, I fear ... glass somewhere and maybe many wheres.

Posted by lotp 2007-07-04 10:51|| 2007-07-04 10:51|| Front Page Top

#7 About 1 million people of Pakistani descent are living in Britain and some 400,000 travel back to Pakistan every year.

There's 400,000 Pakis whose er, passports are not in order and cannot return?

Posted by JohnQC 2007-07-04 13:31|| 2007-07-04 13:31|| Front Page Top

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