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I
was amused to read that India had unilaterally
decided to scale back it's 'natak' at the flag
lowering ceremony at the Indo-Pak border.
Pakistan, however, wants to go on with their 'natak'.
It seems that they have built a large tourist
attraction around their show of scorn. I guess
now their tourism brochures will call it a, "See
our one-sided display of scorn".
Maybe the Indian army should reconsider their
whole stand on this. Yes, we must tone down the
aggressive display, but after conclusion of
their aggressive display of scorn, one ordinary
guy should walk up an give them the finger!
Of course, I said that for mirth only. We must
look at it rationally. Pakistanis profit
economically from this display of hate. In
short, they eat the fruits of hate. Fruits of
hate make you stupid and insane. We all know
that.
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The world will remain a very
dangerous place till the huge arms
manufacturing infrastructure set up
in the cold war days is not
demolished. The countries selling
arms will continue to fuel discord
and hate. There is a chain of highly
influential people profiting from
hate and conflict the world over.
The logic of creating market for
arms by sowing and encouraging
hatred is fine. The wise always
profit when there are fools around
who are ready to fight, at the cost
of education, healthcare and
infrastructure back home. However,
it comes with a very large
pre-assumption. That pre-assumption
is made by the conflict designers
when they plan conflicts on their
drawing boards. They think they have
complete knowledge of past, present
and future and that they will always
be in control of the situation. They
think that they control the knob of
the oven and they can twist it from
high to sim or off positions at
their will.
The designers of conflicts may
consider themselves very intelligent
and very much in control but do
things always go as per plans? Were
the outcome of Vietnam war,
occupation of Afghanistan, the
Iran-Iraq conflict, the more recent
Afghanistan war, Iraq war, Kargil
war etc, etc as per plans of their
designers? Were the designers in
control? In the world today, most
countries, who are the major buyer
of arms, sit with an arsenal of
nuclear arms. How much room for
error do we have? If a nuclear
conflict starts will humanity
survive? Will the designers of
conflicts survive themselves?
The designers of conflicts are a
fistful of people but they are the
most immediate dangers to everyone
on this planet. Summing up, huge
arms manufacturing infrastructure
set up in the cold war days is not
demolished and replaced with
industries and research facilities
beneficial for mankind. The
conflict-mongers must be isolated
and their playing with fire must be
stopped. History has shown that
hardly any conflict has gone the way
it was planned and now the stakes on
all sides are higher than ever
before. - Rajesh - Nov.
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