On Wednesday 15 Oct 2008 7:50:49 pm Deepa Mohan wrote: > Shiv hasn't jumped into this conversation yet?
Will do. No time now but the first reading suggests idiocy and blinkers on the part of the author. He says terrorists are swayed by a blog or conversion weeks before. Fine. But he misses the forest for the trees. Who maintains those blogs and who perpetautes and funds the ideology to attract young terrorists? I will answer that with a rhetorical question. Why don't you find Osama or Mulla Omar blowing themselves up? Or Prabhakaran for that matter. Or Saudi Arabia suddenly allowing in a flood of Bibles, Gitas and preachers to bring them in? That is because the leadership survives at the expense of idiots who go and kill themselves on a whim. The author wants to socally target the buffoons who do that on a whim with no word on the fact that the leadership Pakiistani army) needs to be eliminated/disempowered. And from my viewpoint the author (is he American?) has a criminally negligent/inexcusbly naive view about terrorism from Pakistan by imagining that Chechnya was their intended target. Pakistani terrorists were trained primarily to fight India and acquire strategic depth against India by expanding into Afghanistan. GIGO in other words. "Seven habits"? Pah They eat, they crap, they breathe, they love, they hate, they fight, they die. How's that for "seven habits"? shiv
