07-14-2006, 08:14 AM
<!--QuoteBegin-bhushan+Jul 13 2006, 12:13 PM-->QUOTE(bhushan @ Jul 13 2006, 12:13 PM)<!--QuoteEBegin--><!--QuoteBegin--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->We're not Jihadis and our way is as opposite from theirs as Hinduism is opposite to Islam<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
That is the equivalence trap we keep falling into. Similar ways and similar ideologies are two different things. You have to use the tactics that are necessary to win the war (albeit an internal one), and using similar tactics (violence in this case) does not make you like your enemy anymore than Indian and Pakistani militaries using same tactics are equivalent.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I agree we are not jihadis. logically who should have a better chance of sucess and making friends in the global comunity those who hate every one but their kinds or those who have grown up to be secure among diverse community. secularisim is our strength if we don't feel sorry about it we can clean fanatisim clean.
That is the equivalence trap we keep falling into. Similar ways and similar ideologies are two different things. You have to use the tactics that are necessary to win the war (albeit an internal one), and using similar tactics (violence in this case) does not make you like your enemy anymore than Indian and Pakistani militaries using same tactics are equivalent.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I agree we are not jihadis. logically who should have a better chance of sucess and making friends in the global comunity those who hate every one but their kinds or those who have grown up to be secure among diverse community. secularisim is our strength if we don't feel sorry about it we can clean fanatisim clean.