I appreciate from where your coming from but patience. We are larger. We will win in the long run. Don't forget we have tortured history but after all the sacrifice now is not the time to do rash things. Relax we have India to think about. In the long run we will come out on top as long as we are patient and show magnanmity. Sometimes the people you are closest is the source of most bitterness.
I liken the Afghan-Pak relationship to the British-Irish relationship. It saw centuries of British medling in Ireland. Millions of Irish migrants in UK. Decades of IRish bombing inside UK but now by and large the British and the Irish are as tight as two peas in a pod. Do please read the British-Irish troubled history and you will see my point.
The British in the last 80 years showed remarkable maturity toward the Irish and today look sat them. Not long ago in Britain they had signs like "No Irish or dogs allowed". The Irish hated the English yet millions of them lived in UK. With these things you have to have breadth of vision. This is PDF and I expect people here to have longer horizins then the last tangle with some idiot.
Despite the fact that within England 10% of the population was made up of Irish migrants who mostly lived in poor inner city areas UK never sealed their border with Republic of Ireland. Throughout the worst of terrorism the Hollyhead-Dublin ferry continued to bring 1,000s of more Irish. I often travelled back and forth. The shocking thing was there was hardly any checks. All Irish in law could move to UK and enjoy British hospitality.
While all this was offered to the Irish they kept bombing London, Birmingham etc. I give you example of how much hatred there was between Irish and British. In 1988 two British Army corporals were murdered in broad daylight by Irish crowds in full view of a British Army helicopter.
Corporals killings - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In 1979 18 British soldiers were murdered in a ambush by IRA. Despite all these provocations millions of Irish kept moving from Republic of Ireland ( not Republic which was a separate country like Afghanistan and not Norhern Ireland which is like K-Pk in Pakistan and part of UK ) by catching a ferry from Dublin to Hollyhead in UK without any papers and could claim benefits as much as any English. Today they are the best of chums thanks to the patience that UK showed.
BTW There were claims that Gaddafi of Libya was supporting IRA with money etc.
Warrenpoint ambush - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Below is the photograph of Hyde Park bombing in London when the Queens Horse Gaurds were attacked. You can see the dead horses.
Despite all this the British stated cool and even like I said kept their border fully open even while they shut to all other commonwealth countries like Pakistan, India, and the rest. This is beforte European Community. The British knew in the long term the Irish would get tied into UK and today is exactly the case.
