Disturbing stuff

Read this and cringe

The lone terrorist arrested apparently told police that they use Google Earth to study geo layouts and its apparently explicit that they were trained in pakistan.

Im imagining a scenario where some1 carries out an attack of similar scale in America or for that matter in China or in Europe and then it gets revealed that the blokes involved are trained in Pakistan - They would go into a state of war with pakistan - wont they ? - I havent a SHRED of doubt - they would go to war - the next moment.

Why do i get this sinking feeling that we'll (or a coalition of nations) be at war with Pakistan in the near future - its probably the most popular thing for some government in India to do anyway - Heres something here - about all the Government bashing thats going on in Bombay and all around the country -

If there are a couple more sparks and if all diplomacy fails - thats pretty much the ONLY way Congress can hope to get reelected.

Theres this article about 'South Asia's Deadly Domino effect - Here - it concludes like this:

'' The Mumbai terrorists “wanted to create a problem for the whole region, because they knew this could radicalize the population more.” But, he said, none of that has to happen — if the Indian government resists the domestic pressure to hit back at Pakistan. It would be too much, to start a war just to keep a government in place.''

If ONLY things quieten down from here- just a FEW more sparks - diplomatic or otherwise - and India' government WONT sit by and be accused of not acting - and there will be this godawful border tension - there will be troops taken out of western pakistan and brought to the Indian fronts -

Our generation (born after 1980) havent really seen big Indo-Paki wars and stuff - But basic ramifications from such incidents will leave - fundamental ones / religious tolerance related ones

I remember a telecon with a friend couple of days back - he was saying crap like 'Basic islamic stuff is all wrong / radical teaching is corrupting muslim minds / religious tolerance is going too far now in India etc.' - i am often accused of pussyfooting around the issue - adopting a fake 'ever tolerant, pseud - pragmatic, non-confrontational stance' - but seriously i cant muslim-bash at all - its plain stupid - heck, there are more muslims in India than in pakistan for pete's sake

With stuff like Citibank, GM, Most US job losses in a century - things can only go from bad to worse if theres war.

*Sigh* all so worrying.

Right!

im attempting a french beard and im now going back to - 'Hierarchy of beards': Evolutionary history of facial fur' on Boing Boing (a subscription of which comes HIGHLY recommended) and this close up of the beard catalogue - to try and visualize myself in one of those dos when im like 60 or something.

Busy DND ;-