tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13437119.post1199003034671138747..comments2024-03-01T13:51:47.721+05:30Comments on Reality, one bite at a time: Hard line diplomacy is not homeland securitySiddharth Varadarajanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07721228307097170092noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13437119.post-23270396716928381392009-12-24T09:46:23.980+05:302009-12-24T09:46:23.980+05:30One year of the hardline has given India one year ...One year of the hardline has given India one year of relative peace. Why mess with success? If the hardline is forcing Pakistan to drown in the storm that it created for itself......better Pakistanis suffer than Indians.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13437119.post-57771739460451127162009-12-13T07:06:50.826+05:302009-12-13T07:06:50.826+05:30I agree that effective counter terror measures sho...I agree that effective counter terror measures should be on the worst case assumption and should be professional. Educating civilians on simple things they can do to protect themselves and others (such as looking under your seat in bus/train to spot unclaimed baggage) is also important.<br /><br />But dialog or not is a matter that should rest on the answer to the critical question - is the official Pakistani regime (not its rogue elements who may be beyond control) part of the problem or not?<br /><br />Forgetting everything else, a key symbolic test is the Pakistani action on Dawood. It should be quite easy for Pakistan to bundle him in a van and deliver to Wagah check post. It has chosen to treat him as a star guest. There are other far more serious 'tests' where Pakistan has failed miserably.<br /><br />Dialog can and should wait in such circumstance. If isolation of apartheid S. Africa can be justified, it is perfectly justifiable to isolate Pakistan until it officially gives up on terrorism as tool of state policy, as MMS so eloquently put it. It is futile to expect states not threatened by official Pakistani terror (as opposed to the unofficial brigade that threatens everyone and anyone, including Pakistan itself) to agree with us on this.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13437119.post-4960837930799673272009-12-12T04:12:15.492+05:302009-12-12T04:12:15.492+05:30No one has said that suspension of talk makes Indi...No one has said that suspension of talk makes India safer.<br /><br />But it has been proved beyond any doubt that talks do not make India safer either.<br /><br />Then why waste time and energy ....?<br /><br />Safety for India has to come from within, by strengthening internal security mechanism, and by preparing to make the required sacrifice. There is no soft option.<br /><br />Peace and freedom do not come cheap, specially for a country like India, where nationalism is considered a dirty word !anjan288https://www.blogger.com/profile/05928307658547876901noreply@blogger.com