On Friday 17 Nov 2006 2:44 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > You cannot wish away that plebisicite
Fine but at the same time you cannot wish away history and the fine print in that plebiscite document. It was never meant to be a one sided affair and there was the little matter of withdrawal of invading forces which never occurred. Since then there has been both ethnic cleansing and a gift of occupied Kashmir territory to China. If you can't reverse time - you can't have your plebiscite. Period. This plebiscite business is dead and if Indians want to keep talking about the straws that successive Pakistani military governments clutch for their survival as the only ethnic minority army in the world that owns a country - they are likely to remain untroubled by geopolitical realities. I believe there is a problem of attitude here with people who discuss this issue and I must point out that to the credit of successive governments of India - (after Nehru) - they have not suffered from this attitude problem. If one is going to walk down the centuries of history feeling that one is carrying a "Plebiscite burden" without taking into account the water that has flowed down the Indus - then one will never move forward or even begin to understand the compulsions that move nations and the very human leaders of nations. The "plebiscite" is history and the sooner people can come to grips with that fact the clearer geopolitical events will become. I kid you not. shiv
