12-25-2006, 06:05 AM
<b>Blundering peace </b>
<i>Again, we have the US pushing us on a perilous course with Pakistan.</i>
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The PM has stressed in the past of making borders irrelevant. <span style='color:red'>That is a very European concept. </span>It is dangerously Utopian as a South Asian, leave alone India-Pakistan, concept. Borders become irrelevant only between states with comparable economies and similar, democratic political structures and societal aspirations.<b> No European state would have wanted open borders with, say, Fascist Spain or Fascist Italy or Fascist Germany, although Germany foreclosed the issue by trying to conquer everybody</b>. <span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'> We would be utter, contemptible fools to envision irrelevant borders with a Pakistani state which is failed, expansionist, and which practices terror as state policy. We have hardly lived down the sell-out at Havana before we see the spectre of another sell-out, now at Amritsar. </span>
Back off, Mr Prime Minister. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<i>Again, we have the US pushing us on a perilous course with Pakistan.</i>
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The PM has stressed in the past of making borders irrelevant. <span style='color:red'>That is a very European concept. </span>It is dangerously Utopian as a South Asian, leave alone India-Pakistan, concept. Borders become irrelevant only between states with comparable economies and similar, democratic political structures and societal aspirations.<b> No European state would have wanted open borders with, say, Fascist Spain or Fascist Italy or Fascist Germany, although Germany foreclosed the issue by trying to conquer everybody</b>. <span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'> We would be utter, contemptible fools to envision irrelevant borders with a Pakistani state which is failed, expansionist, and which practices terror as state policy. We have hardly lived down the sell-out at Havana before we see the spectre of another sell-out, now at Amritsar. </span>
Back off, Mr Prime Minister. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->