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"Spank" here means "hit" you; there are ways other than direct action to do so. True, but US isn't leaving Afghanistan and neither is it leaving Iraq. Again, why would US attack Pakistan when it has alternate means to accomplish what it wants? Again, Karzai is not talking; it is...

Telepathy?

A country which had everything to loose if it did not intervene. We did; you did not bother. These "so called refugees" were your own countrymen then. Your government did not give a hoot about them though. Dude, we had no choice. Innocence is not in question here, and nor it is in any...

AM what choice did we have? We stepped in after things hit the fan, and they reason they hit the fan was not our poking through Mukti Bahini; it was the inherent Bengali nationalism (initially, Bengal was at the forefront of the Independance Movement) and West Pakistan's sheer arrogance...

Dude, what can Pakistan (including both GoP and PA) do? Afghanistan is Washington's toddler; you mess with the toddler, daddy comes to spank you, real hard. You are missing the point. Karzai is saying this because Washington is telling him to do so.

How was it our doing? You left us with no choice. Either we live with the mess you created or we take matters in our hands. We, obvioulsy, chose the latter.

I don't think anybody saw "Bangladesh" when the crisis began. We armed Mukti Bahini to poke you; we gave them serious thought once we realized either we live with the mess you created or we get in and sort things out ourselves. Obviously there was no goodness of heart... But, if I go by...

^In that case I thought I'll counter the argument itself. Most of today's progressive states had some rather good investment-friendly state governments in place, and hence have managed to prosper. Just because a state is well to do today does not guarantee that it will remain so in the...

Common dude, don't give me that. I would love to see the real problem and would be interested in your argument. But as far as Modi is concerned, let us just agree to disagree.

What is the Congress expected to say? Modi started the pin-poking; either shut him up with a sledge hammer or the others start blabering as well. We all know what happens then. This is from the paragraph: "Modi has raised a serious issue. But he has also let loose the argument that...

I genuinely do not see anything wrong in the Centre-State relations. We all know how good our State Governments are. Most of their money goes in feeding their own employees. While I support more local self-empowerment, the current set-up is rather okay, especially in matters related to...

Dude, Modi barked because Congress is in the Lok Sabha. Would he say the same thing if the BJP was in the Lok Sabha? The article was trash, and I did read it.

That is exactly what he is doing... nothing unites a country more than an outside threat. It also gives the administration a bit of leverage and popularity, not to forget competency: "we are trying to save you." I'm surprised as to why is everybody getting so worked up? The only thing to...

You mean assasination? I would love to argue ISI's immense-collateral-damage-causing operations that you claim; sadly, we'll go off-topic. Second, what will killing Karzai achieve? Somebody else will come into his place and will talk the same thing. What will you do? Kill the second guy? A...

And how do you propse to do that?

Closing borders is easy? Stopping flow of refugees is easy? The primary purpose of India in providing limited support to Mukti Bahini was to poke you. We gave them serious thought once we realized things have hit the fan. We had no choice; either we live with the mess your mistakes...

When did I deny that Mukti Bahini wasn't active earlier? The support was nowhere near the level that can be termed significant and effective. It was nothing more than poking back then. Serious stuff started when everyone realized things hit the fan. As far as opening the doors to refugees is...

Why are they crossing? Not because they are being nihilated, but because they seek a better life in India.

Your mistakes were causing us dear. That is why, we stepped in. Our initial support was nothing but pea-shooting. Its once we realized that this is our problem that we chose to step in. If I go by your definition, every country in the world is into cross boder terrorism.

Frankly, any other government (civilian/military) would do the exact same thing. I doubt the PPP has a choice in this matter. You cannot confront Uncle Sam... and cannot avoid the collateral damage... so the best way is to minimize civilian casualties, win the propaganda war against the...