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Nation to ensure unity in our ranks and, if at all possible, develop aīackbone.MONTREAL – Transat AT Inc. Meanwhile, it would be in the fitness of things for us as a What we can do without is the constantīarrage of pinpricks from the very quarters that possibly engineered the Given the quagmire in which we find ourselves today, we are fightingĪ battle for our survival. Its instigators, as well as what it has spawned. Import to also look closely at the root causes of the War on Terror and Than look for ready scapegoats to chastise. The rational thing to do would be toĪnalyse and effectively tackle the root causes of such terrorism rather Have proven - if proof was at all needed - that terrorism is a worldwide This said, one must add the caveat that it is not atĪll fair to jump to the unwarranted conclusion that 'the epicentre It becomes all the more reprehensible when the victims are Violence in any part of the world can under no circumstances beĬondoned. Of the Brazilian young man was that he looked like an Asian and was, The culprit was 'Asian' and that was that. 'conclusion' in this case - as in many other cases - was that Shutting one's mind off to other sources. His tragic deathīrought home the utter futility of first jumping to conclusions and then Years back of the hapless Brazilian young man (remember?) who was soĬruelly shot dead by policemen in civvies in London. To take just one example, one can recall the incident of several 'Islamic extremists' and those too of 'Asian Inevitable result is that the finger of suspicion invariably points to One would have no objection to this except that when makingĪnnouncements the spokespersons, more often than not, jump the gun. In a while the US and Western security agencies make it a habit toĪnnounce that they have unearthed another 'terrorist plot'. One wonders if the perspicacious reader has noticed that every once No prizes for guessing who continues to be The whole Muslim World is inĪ state of sixes and sevens. The two American military assaults - first on AfghanistanĪnd then on Iraq - resulted in unleashing forces that the world is nowįinding it difficult to come to terms with. Most of the travails of this region can be traced back to this Receiving end, as a consequence of something that was not our doing. 'Terrorism' became the new buzzword! Through noįault of ours we were sucked into the vortex. The advent of the 'War on Terror' engineered a
Nine/eleven and its aftermathĬhanged it all. Our own VVIPs, itĪppears, had little else to talk about and so they instinctivelyĪll that now appears to be behind us. Visitors to call on all the high-ups in the capital. It was normal practice to arrange for foreign No conversation in the capital was complete without a longish reference What our policymakers were pleased to call the 'core issue'. Not all that long ago, the 'Jammu and Kashmir dispute' was And, what would be a better place to make a start than Memory lane every once in a while, if only to gauge the march ofĬivilisation. It may be a good idea, therefore, to take a look down the 'Plus ca change, plusĬ'est la meme chose' remains as true today as it was whenįormulated. A look over the shoulder." Retrieved from
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