'Israel cannot stop Hamas, nor could Britain stop IRA...'

Mon Sep 30 19:03:24 2002
Name:Satya
Email:deeepglue@yahoo.com
Your Views:Hey, what prevents the government from atleast conducting 'black ops' style operations against Pakistan. We sure have intelligence on who is the terrorist, and where they are in Pakistan etc. Just go in and decimate them slowly but steadily - the good thing about this approach is that it is legitimate and legal (self-defence). Plus it will sow some fear into the jehadis about what they are up against. The only minus point is that our leaders need to have some knees ... for undoubtedly, attempts will be made on their lives. Netas, are you guys willing to do something for the country ...this is your chance to show!

Mon Sep 30 19:04:00 2002
Name:Brahmin
Email:gentlemaan@aol.com
Your Views:Yes we are cowards. It's an historical fact. We were ruled for thousand years by Muslims and then the British. We cannot fight Pakistan because they are too bold and daring. Sure we have a large army but quantity does not matter. It's the quality that counts. Pakistan has that qualitative edge. Our military planners are fully aware of that. We can show our courage by mob violance as we did in Gujrat and Punjab, killing our own fellow citizens,raping, burning,looting etc. I guess we can only show our bravery by killing our own kind and then blaming it on Pakistan.

Mon Sep 30 19:29:44 2002
Name:Pallav
Email:abra_ka_dabra@hotmail.com
Your Views:Not so. It is impossible to stop determined terrorists from carrying out such attacks. Israel cannot stop Hamas, nor could Britain stop IRA. Americans were beaten in Vietnam, and USSR was bruised in Afghanistan. Guirella tactics was invented for the situation of small guy fighting the big guy. And nothing has changed in the world since then to prevent this. To others who believe that we are a bunch of losers: You might be losers, but not I, and there are thousands others who win steadily. Losing a battle does not mean losing a war. It it those (like you) who have lost their self respect and courage who end up as being losers. War with terrorists is a costly battle and we will suffer casualties. What makes is tough is Pakistan, which is the haven for these mindless killers. And for those who advocate fighting Pakistan: Wake up. Pakistan is a nueclear capable nation and fighting Pakistan will lead to enormous losses to our side. The fact that Pakistan will cease to exist does nothing to alleviate the suffering we will have in that case. To sum up, If you use your brains and reason it out, there really is no other way to combat terrorism that what we are doing now.

Mon Sep 30 19:04:20 2002
Name:ton
Email:ton@yahoo.com
Your Views:we are a nation led by a bunch of indecisive illiterate 'leaders' who only thrive on playing religion for the most unholiest crimes. if ever a messiah was needed for our country, it is now. if ever history witnesses a truly democratic nation that is truly ruled by its people, then that moment has to be now. we the people have to stand now before illiteracy and corruption rot us into an unbearable stench.

Mon Sep 30 19:07:30 2002
Name:Khushhal Mahajan
Email:khushhal@hotmail.com
Your Views:Are we soft state? yes we are softbacause Murderer of 2000 innocent people is still cheif Minister instead of being on death row. Yes we are soft because we gave opportunity to terrorists to have roots in Gujarat. Do not blame pakistan for this . Where is proof. Why can't it be just somebody from Gujarat whose innocent family was burned with the help of govt which is supposed to protect them . yes we are soft when VHP is spewing venom against our own citizen and we can not do any thing. We are soft because we are corrupt and insincere to anything human. We should be placing our house in order instaed of going out and start accsing pak of everything. And one more thing , what pak could not do for 50 years Modi did with in 1st year . think abt it. And if attack was handiwork of some local Muslims who lost families I am not angry with them I am just sorry for India.

Mon Sep 30 19:08:23 2002
Name:Ajit Kumar
Email:ajitkumar_us@hotmail.com
Your Views:We are a soft state for all the wrong reasons : 1. We are soft on Poverty (Bank Scams and Stock Scams have made many people poor, but the responsible minister was just transferred and not jailed ) 2. We are soft on Corruption (George and Ram Naik are still ministers) 3. We are soft on people who bring Wrong laws which violate human rights like POTA (Which was being told as a panacea against terrorism and after the implementation of which , terrorist strikes have increased) 4. We are soft on rioters (Advani and Uma Bharti are not in jail for encouraging people to riot and demolish a mosque) 5. We are soft on fundamentalists (People who demoished the Babri Masjid) Lets take action against the Cancers like Veerappan in our country and then talk about taking action against Pakistan. We are soft on Bureaucrats and Ministers who dont stop on traffic signals . No action is taken against them.Lets act on them and then talk of Pakistan. First lets put our own house in order and then talk of the Foreign Hand .

Mon Sep 30 19:08:50 2002
Name:sultan khan
Email:sultank1@rediffmail.com
Your Views:yes, India is a soft target because we ourselves are providing ground to others to come and attack us but we can not blame to others since we are responsible for the same. Unless we control the hindu militancy which is being spread by the sangh parivaar i.e. RSS, Bajrang Dal, V.H.P., B.J.P. etc. we can not fight with the others. Their militancy has been proved to be counter productive and has given rise to terrorism. Attacks on muslims, christains and other minorities has become very common, The massacre of muslims in Gujarat riot which was state sponsored as evident from the statements of Narendra Modi, L.K. Advani, Praveen Togadia, Ashok Singal. The Pakistan is using the activities of Sangh Parivaar and its leader as a fuel to its ulterior motive. Unless and until the minorities are safe and protected by the Govt. India shall remain as a soft traget for others specially for Pakistan.

Mon Sep 30 19:09:58 2002
Name:vivek
Email:vampire_rock@yahoo.com
Your Views:no we r not a soft state we can give an answer to their attack but will this do is give chance to al-queda to get away and once they get out to safe place the first target will be use we can not take that risk

Mon Sep 30 19:12:48 2002
Name:Dr Krishna Prasad
Email:dr_krishnap@hotmail.com
Your Views:I understand the angst and anger which goes up everytime such an incident happens. This is basically because we never prepared our nation for covert operations as the national policy based on sickening "non-alingnment" and "secularism" principle, prevented us from doing so. Our media still sucks up to powers to be and still harps of Tehelkas and Godse's fault completely ignoring the fact for example how many days did the opposition actually let the parliament to function! The jingoism wont work as we are not fighting an "armyless' Palestine or a rag tag Taliban but a nuclear country run by a dictator and led by ISI who are autonomous. What is the big use in occupying a useless piece of junk land called POK? What we should we do is to take away stupid seperate laws for Kashmir prohibiting non-Kashmiri Indians from owning land there. This will allow influx of industry and improve the economy at Kashmir and there won't be anyone left to think of Jehad. You fight terrorism with economics not with war mongering. It's easy for all of us sitting in front of PC to blab about war ever thought about difficulties under which our defence sector performs. First be honest citizens and pay taxes

Mon Sep 30 19:13:35 2002
Name:indian
Email:jayabala77@yahoo.co.in
Your Views:Yes, we are made a soft state by our politicians. we should take steps to contain this or else this type of attacks will be carried out by pakistan. we should give those brats a befitting lesson so that they will never rise or even dare to make comments on us.

Mon Sep 30 19:13:39 2002
Name:Vikram..R.Aswani
Email:vickyra001@rediffmail.com
Your Views:Kind Attn:- To impotent Indian administrators India will never attack or wage a war b'coz "It needs man to fight a war"not bunch of impotent administrator who are ruling India.

Mon Sep 30 19:19:53 2002
Name:Keyur Patel
Email:dbex1@rediff.com
Your Views:Attacking Pakistan on basis of this kind of attacks will not go well in the world, as Pakistan is ready to say ( Or argue ) that these attacks were handy work of ROW to provoke war and destroy pakistan. India needs to do more productive Police work and present hard evidance to People of India and World.Instead of killing thoes attackers, they should have made some effort to arrest them.

Mon Sep 30 19:19:55 2002
Name:Sri Rajasekhar
Email:jsrajasekhar@rediffmail.com
Your Views:Who ever said this, i think, is a great pessimist. This has been off-late become a fashion of sorts to ridicule our leaders. But lets keep one point in view my friends, we are a billion people and any form of aggression with out balance and hindsight will have a profound effect on our society as a whole. I would like to ask one question. Are we prepared for aggression ? Can the whole nation sing one tune to our leaders? Can we stand united in tough times as we did for our freedom? Put these questions and you will have answers for our restraint. But times are changing, and I firmly believe that we should start voicing our concerns much more firmly than we are used to. Think what a roar it would be if 1/6 th of world population lends its voice to a cause. If there is a moment that we should all come under one roof it is this. Finally, I should say it better stay calm and punch a death blow to our opponents than to huff and puff out aggression. One sting is better than a thousand hisses.

Mon Sep 30 19:21:42 2002
Name:War is the solution???
Email:Naah@yahoo.com
Your Views:I bet all the people who r talking about war/attacking pakistan r NRIs...let the RIs decide what they want! We can't afford the war at all...US can do so because they have $$ and Israel can do so because they've US... Lets spend that efforts to make people love one another...and value the human life...

Mon Sep 30 19:22:11 2002
Name:vishal
Email:bihari@yahoo.com
Your Views:We are not a bunch of losers or cowards - we are simply selfish and corrupt. Which leads to our behaving in a manner which may sometime make us look like losers or cowardly. Our politicians are not cowards. They are simply greedy. Let's face it. They are not in Delhi to serve the nation. They are simply there to loot as much as they can from the nation's coffers. And waging wars and placing themselves in the way of harm by way of possible bombing of the national capital or such likes, does not jell with thier looting operation. You think a Laloo or a Mulayam or a Kanshi/Mayawati care about india and our prestige enough to wage a war ? BAH !

Mon Sep 30 19:23:23 2002
Name:Ranjeet Vaishnav
Email:ronjee@hotmail.com
Your Views:For all those who think we are a nation full of losers and cowards: we are not losers and cowards because we do not take a strike at the terrorist camps in Pakistan -- We are losers because we cannot make peace with our own people -- We are losers because the citizens of this nation do not stand up to corruption -- We are a nation of cowards because we let people like Laloo rule the roost -- We are a nation of cowards because we mutely accept whatever politicians throw at us - even if it is to divide us in the name of caste and religion... this list can be endless.

Mon Sep 30 19:26:21 2002
Name:Niraj Rachh
Email:rachhnn@rediffmail.com
Your Views:We are not only softest but foolish !!!!. Its clear now that Mr. Vajpayee is a man of words, not action. "Yeh Kerange, Who Kerange" This should & must end. A full fledge war must be launched against Pakistan at all fronts. From Real War to Cyber War & Pakistan should be made to cuddle & crawl. A movement should be launched to Divide Pakistan, by giving support to Sindh & Baluchi activists.

Mon Sep 30 19:27:53 2002
Name:Ramesh
Email:rameshgetsmail@yahoo.com
Your Views:I think that the man whose principles have made India a soft state is Mahatma Gandhi. His principles are simply outdated and probably misused badly in today's world.we see strikes,Dharnas, taking the form of "Hartals" in india. Where else is there a practise that an organization stalls the country in the name of an attack by a terrorist. Did american's call for a strike on September 12.If they had called for a world wide strike on sep 12 india would have been the only affected country. We indians by calling for strike after terrorist "strikes" have made the terrorists more proud as they could stall the country's growth, buisiness for a day..Pity....what a shameful situation When we defeat ourselves through our cowardly acts, then how can we defeat our enemies.. i wonder ..how india is a real fight to china as many say..if India is to surge ahead as a gutsy the only possible way is to remove the bullshit politicians and give the ARMY the complete power. Democracy is not for those who have always misused them.Democracy should take taken off when it is not for the people,by the people.

Mon Sep 30 19:28:04 2002
Name:Ramesh
Email:kats_oldtimes@yahoo.co.in
Your Views:India gives the image of a Nation which cannot move. How can it be until we elect responsibile leaders. We are cowards. We dont have guts to insist that our leaders should not be criminals. What can you expect from a polity which has no agenda other winning another election and cornering vote banks. These b******s use such unfortunate happenings (Akshardham) to gain political milage. Apart from shedding croc tears in the glare of the media and issuing statements blaming the ruling b******s for security lapses they do nothing. Why do you want to fight Pakistan when you have a 'greater enemy', the corrupt politicians to deal with right under your nose.They blame Pakistan for all their ineffeciencies? What were the policy makers doing? These b******s cannot catch one small Veerappan, the hell they will fight terrorists. Each one of them is worse than a terrorist. Send them to the border for 10 days with their chamchas and the b******s will realise what it is to be a soldier. From now onward let us make it a policy to have atleast 50% of our ministers with a military background you will see the discipline and the seriousness with which this country will be run bharath matha ki jai

Mon Sep 30 19:29:50 2002
Name:Alok Bhansali
Email:alokbhansali@rediffmail.com
Your Views:Yes, India is certainly a soft target, if US can give Saddam a hard time as a preemptive move agans t terrorism, why can't we go across the LOC and destroy all the terrorist activities there. But we we don't even think about such moves. This is the height of tolerence for a nation, how many more lives are going to wake us up???

Mon Sep 30 19:31:57 2002
Name:edwin mendonca
Email:edwin_mendonca@rediffmail.com
Your Views:a nation of 1 billion and an army of the size of another cannot get rid of a petty criminal known as veerappan. do you think it can face a brave country such as pakistan. leave aside pakistan look in our own country how many people have been killed by our own people.a country where there is no law for rich people like salman khan, puru rajkumar and a delhi guy known as nanda getting away with crimes such as killing people.when you cannot punish these guys are you kidding you are going to wage a war against a brave country like pakistan who is just out to destroy you like a pack of cards.come on india punish the corrupt politicians wage a war against the corrupt people and then go ahead and tackle outside issue. do not hate the kashmiri muslims they are also our brothers this is a christian brother telling all of you take care.

Mon Sep 30 19:32:16 2002
Name:Ninad
Email:ninadj@hotmail.com
Your Views:Loser leaders and spineless citizens. Isn't it high time we stopped crying. Isnt it high time we bypassed our loser leadership, corrupt posse and beaurocratic defense.; and took it in our own hands to respond to the repeated insults that the anti-national elements has subjected us to. It is our nation, and our job to keep it safe and healthy. It is timewe booted the leadership and its limp machinery, which has always dissappointed us.

Mon Sep 30 19:32:28 2002
Name:ganesh
Email:ash11f@yahoo.com
Your Views:we are not cowards, the time is not not there for a war to occur, people must realize its a a desparate effort of pak to divert our attention for the ellections,which is such a success. let it get over they will surely know what india is all about

Mon Sep 30 19:39:11 2002
Name:pc
Email:javed@yahoo.co.in
Your Views:yes!we r bit soft.Our neighbour is misunderstanding it. enough is enough!!!! i request our army now, just erase the name of pakistan from world map & make it one & only india

Mon Sep 30 19:39:43 2002
Name:Srikanth Remani
Email:srikanth@udel.edu
Your Views: Well the way our "Nationalist Leaders" run to Uncle Sam and cribb makes me feel bad. India should stp from uttering noises and should be resilent. Dont talk of war if you are not planning for war. Secondly, since we live in a Nuclearised South Asia, things are easy said than done. It would be blunder on our side to think we can kick pakis. And moreover some people are giving the example of Israel, get real people Israel is not a "terror free state" inspite of their hard stance. As long as we as people entertain extremist right wing tendencies with in our civil society (both Hindus , Muslims, Christians, Sikhs) violence will continue. Change should come within Pakisthan is root cause of atttitude is replacing, British rule is root cause of all (this thought was predominant in 80s). Any change should start within, the pain and greif that follows war is too costly and we cannot get those valuble lives. Extremists argue that we are losing lives daily, that is a consequence of our inability to keep our folks home (it is Indians who are killing or helping others kill). My point it we should retrospect and change the mindset of average indian towards growth, secularism and tolerance.

Mon Sep 30 19:40:34 2002
Name:rahul
Email:r55zor@rediff.com
Your Views:hey folks.... i ain't from you country to comment on it but what i can feel and see that you two countries are the major setbacks in the development this region....its coz you all our SAARC hold no meaning nothing at all...you want war you go atleast it may bring solution to cease fire and make life easier...what was the fault of those people who went to temple?were there fault was to be hindu?why hinduism,muslims comes in count...what is most biggest religion ? blood...humanity...where are you all going to realize...no one is the citizen of coward country..its the people who make it? This time they hit the sentiment of all people in south asia...no just indian...we nepalese are too shocked what we want is ..we are sick of this hid'n'seek..hit the damn enemy of peace...hit them ....hit then damn hard......don't mind if you have to fight with country tooo..we are always with you... get them******

Mon Sep 30 19:40:36 2002
Name:Tijji
Email:tijji@rediffmail.com
Your Views:Wat we need is a clear cut policy on our standing, against issues regarding terrorism and other issues which are in reference to the national security. It is not Hindutva, nor the eye for an eye policy nor any separatist policy that that has to be taken. We have to each a national agreement on how our stand will be. and we have to standby those declacratives even those our loved ones are on the hook. These are not to be taken on the basis of religious nor on the basis of caste or creed nor do the politicians have to decide them .this has to be by the people of india.

Mon Sep 30 19:41:00 2002
Name:Prashanth
Email:Capablanca@rediffmail.com
Your Views:India should do this, India should do that!!! What are you boys doing for the country other than being corrupt or further encouraging coruptions both mental/physical/spiritual/political. What we do is nothing compared to a day of the army man who risks his life for us or the farmer who sweats his brow for creating paddy. Learn to respect them first and grow from boys to men. Talking for the country or serving the countrymen is not giving great fundas in mailing lists/ review boxes. And regarding this idea of " Bunch of losers and nation of cowards" with people like you and others who share your views and are armchair experts, we defenitely dont have a dearth of cowards or losers in our country. Just do you daily part of following civic rules even something like proper traffic sense, do something wherein atleast you make a sincere attempt to being a true Indian. Then see if you have the guts to make such loose talk. And this applies to all those armchair experts especially sitting outside India and giving irresponsible comments day in and day out. Good luck boys!!!

Mon Sep 30 19:41:26 2002
Name:Abhishek lal
Email:abhisheklal456@yahoo.com
Your Views:No , we are a bunch of selfish ppl.We want to live in peace and let our soldiers die at the border.

Mon Sep 30 19:42:27 2002
Name:LOKESH ASWANI
Email:lva45@hotmail.com
Your Views:we are not a bunch of losers and a nation of cowards. it is just that we understand the consequences of war. we are soft but not scared. you are spreading wrong message and wrong notion by writing this. it is at this point i agree with the proposalof war, cause terrorism has crossed limits.if you want to send a petition to the pm we are doing it at www.groups.msn.com/THENATIONALISTFORUM

Mon Sep 30 19:43:42 2002
Name:Vaibhav Shete
Email:vaisal@rediffmail.com
Your Views:We should give you our Cowardly "No First Use of Nuclear Weapons" doctarine and warn Pakistan that if you make another Kargil or Militant attack against India, We will use our Nuclear Option!

Mon Sep 30 19:46:28 2002
Name:Indian citizen
Email:kiriti_kumar@yahoo.com
Your Views:I am an indian and i am also an impotent. U know i never feel anger or pain anymore. Even if i feel like that its only temporary. If my fellow indian dies i can shed some tears for him but i don't(infact to be exact i can't) do anything because i am an indian and i am impotent. But there is one thing i can do i can talk very well. I can talk about any atrocity untill the next one and then i can talk about another. I can do this because i am an Indian and i am an impotent. I would like u all to know one more thing I was not like this before! I think this is some kind of disease. I just want all indians reading this message to just think for one send about this disease and u will all realize that u all have it!!. We are all indians and ....impotents. Jai Hind

Mon Sep 30 19:50:26 2002
Name:Dr. Kuldip
Email:dr_kuldip@rediffmail.com
Your Views:There is a system in all of us where the person on honest tracks is only answerable and the culprits roam at large.The same is repeated in this case where the media is busy hypothesising a cause for this daylight murder. There is no coverage of those who died or those who fought but now they are trying to say that most of the dead were due to bullets of our soldiers . How can a nation move ahead on these irresposible notions of media.

Mon Sep 30 19:51:03 2002
Name:Raj
Email:prajesh@tehelkamail.com
Your Views:Well, isnt this question coming up for the umpteenth time. it must be clear to anybody that we can just talk, cannot act. look what is happening is pak sends terrorists to attach some place, kill some indians and what our "so called leaders" do? they organize bandh, we lose people and then we lose economically. and pak gets off with some platitudes from our Leaders and crippling our economy a bit more. some body (our so called leaders) says it is disgrunteled muslims. communal tensions already pretty bad, raises it hood and we can see some more cold blooded killings of our own. arent we playing straight into hands of paki. looks like Gen Zia's plans are bearing fruit for pakis. and our leadership is helping them. cant we do anything. why? fellows indians, we have to do somehting about this. there is no use in saying the obvious. action plan is needed with time bound implementation. wake up, please. we should not allow it it continue. and we cannot lean on "our so called leaders" to do anything.

Mon Sep 30 19:52:58 2002
Name:Ram
Email:ram@yahoo.com
Your Views:Indians are bulls.... I am an Indian but I feel very sorry to say this. These people will never come to glory in future. Past history of India says that basically all leaders in this country are "Napunsak". And even people, who choose these leaders. That is why I came to USA and 7 yrs back and became citizen here. I am very proud of India but the leaders and people in this country are totally bulls.... No wonder, within some years there will be a civil war in this country and leaders in this country will fly away to other countries, taking their bribed money, to save their asses. This country just produces people nothing else. F.... these people!

Mon Sep 30 19:56:10 2002
Name:Vik
Email:vikasb@hotmail.com
Your Views:Heads off to the bearing capacity of we Indians..who are represented by Politicians whose blood and hearts are so well refrigeted in their cozy power houses.. To Preserve the peace and security of the people of India should be the Top most agenda of any and all the citizens of our country. so to do that the first thing to do is to flush out all terrorist groups from the country...i will say just kill them by special operations as done by US in Afganistan and Isreal in Gaza Strip dont send them back to anywhere so that no one will dare to come inside this Black Hole anytime. And believe me its possible with the Talent and Technology we have with the Indian Army. But the problem is not what to do its why to do as for doing this we have to flush out f**** terrorist from the Political system also who uses them as agenda for election campaign. Now politicians are not the only one to be blamed we as the citizens also have a hand in it and so does the media except for few instances. We all are part of it which is why the politicians srry terrorist are taking advantage of our patience/ignorance/yechaltarahetahai/whatcanwedo attitude. we have to resist them all the way to thier end.

Mon Sep 30 19:56:54 2002
Name:Ashutosh Mutsaddi
Email:Ashutosh.Mutsaddi@gepc.ge.com
Your Views:Its an irony that the battle against terrorism was lost on the day India tried to shed the 'soft' image by going Nuclear. Since then, Pak has followed suit and now we have to think twice before invading Pak. We can amass our troops on the border, but we cannot risk a N-war. Hence, we are forced into being a 'soft' spectator, afraid to retaliate. The dream of regaining POK, the plans to destroy the terror camps are all empty rhetoric. At the back of our mind, we all know that Pak's Nuclear reply can be deadly.

Mon Sep 30 19:57:10 2002
Name:Aditya
Email:aditya.kedia@wipro.com
Your Views:I am overwhelemed seeing that most Indians think alike, but I am equally disappointed that nobody in power is willing to implement what the people of India want. I believe this is the time when we will have to take it to the streets to make the politicians realise that only the party that is willing to implement some tough steps against all the menance created by Pakistan can stay in power. Mere warnings don't help and neither do they bring any pride to the nation. I wonder why does India spend so much on its defence, when it does not intend to use it for any good. Come on India lets show to the world that we are next to no one when it comes to self defence and self esteem.

Mon Sep 30 19:57:11 2002
Name:hindustani
Email:mesniper@rediffmail.com
Your Views:we have been made to look like bunch of losers and a nation of cowerds by our own leaders whose speeches are most hawkish but actions are zero. its time to beat the shit out of paki bastards now. musharraf is a rotten piece of shit. let us not get scared of his nuclear threat. if he goes nuclear, india will loose a couple of cities, but pakistan will be wiped out from the face of the planet. if it is only the fear of paki nukes, let our so called leaders understand that "empty vessels make more noise" and that is excatly what musharraf is doing. he wont dare to nuke inida. else neither will he be there nor will his pakistan. moreover our VHP and bajrang dal goons, instead of vandalising our own cities should go to border or even pakistan to vandalize them. that way they will do some good to the country. jai hind]

Mon Sep 30 19:57:28 2002
Name:Lawrence Albert
Email:lawalbert@rediffmail.com
Your Views:We indians arent a bunch of losers or Cowards . but it is the political head who are a bunch of losers & cowards cause they arent a indian at heart at all. Do away with these farse political leaders & u will find India far ahead in all the dept especially economy as more than half of it goes into the pockets of these morons .

Mon Sep 30 19:58:08 2002
Name:Soumitra Sinha
Email:ssoumitra@rediff.com
Your Views:I do agree that we are a soft state. But our pm must be replaced by his deputy. He is quite efficient to handle this. Now our PM is busy to attend meeting with big guys like US president, Russian president which is of no use. We must teach Pakistan a lesson without taking approval from anybody. If sept 11 prompted US to attack Afganishtan, we have every right to go for war with Pakistan so that there will be no more Pakistan in history.

Mon Sep 30 19:58:26 2002
Name:sandeep
Email:sandeepcricket@yahoo.com
Your Views:who cares for Hindu lives? not the politicians for sure.if the congress is responsible, so is the BJP.wat the hell are the gutless guys vajpayee and advani doing? everytime innocents are killed, they talk abt fighting terrorism.every sentence of theirs blames pakistan. wat are they doin abt the Indian muslims who are bigger criminals? an open enemy is definitely better than a back stabber.we've lost all faith in our leaders.we have to lift arms to teach all militants muslims a lesson. JAI HIND!!!

Mon Sep 30 20:00:51 2002
Name:Satej korgaonker
Email:ksatej@hotmail.com
Your Views:Yes indeed, we are a soft state.Our prime minister is too weak for having an attack on Pak.Instead he is delivering only speeches and nothing else.The attack on the Akshardham is shame us on Indians.This is the height of any loyalty,Instead we should have attacked Pok & wipe out the camps immidiately, otherwise this will be not an end to terrorism ,it will induce the terrorists, to carry on more such attacks.I think the leaders of this great country should wake up and support the prime minister to launch the offensive right from this moment.The great jawans are gaurding our country , take them in to account the daily hardships they go through and staying far away from their family.

Mon Sep 30 20:01:17 2002
Name:Yogesh Kokatay
Email:yogesh0607@rediffmail.com
Your Views:India has been made a soft target, by the politicians and i entirely blame the congress party for the same. By using all the unethical means they have ruled the country for over 40 years. Thus we cannot expect anything from Congress party. Just for example see the statements of Kapil Sibal, after Akshardham, he said on Sahar TV, that this attack was due to Gujarat riots, the same statement was made by Musharraf, Then on a discusion on Star TV he said "They say the letters in Urdu were planted on the terrorists". Now we should ask Kapil Sibal who are "they". I would ask him who is he an Indian or a Pakistani to say such things. Or is there an underdstanding between the Congress and Mushraff. In the end it would like to say that "We are NOT a bunch of losers and a nation of cowards", but we have been made to appear like that by the politicians, especially of the Congress and communist cult, and by our biased media. India can be much stronger nation if strong patriotism in inculcated in the new generation and for that we have to learn the correct history of our nation and not the communist version writen specifically to suit the british needs, which we learn in our schools.

Mon Sep 30 20:03:16 2002
Name:tintin desai
Email:desaitintin@hotmail.com
Your Views:i dont think that we are a bunch of losers and a nation of cowards.by not reacting violently we have proved to be more understanding and we know that there can never be a result in a war,as both parties in a war lose.so i think we should maintain our policy of diplomacy but at the same time we should not let others take advantage of our kindness.

Mon Sep 30 20:08:17 2002
Name:Bibek Singh
Email:singh_bibek@infosys.com
Your Views:War cannot provide long-term solution to any problem on earth. Most of the time we hear comments like "India should immmediately launch war against Pakistan" , "War is the only solution to Kashmir Problem" and so on, from people neither of whom or anyone among their forefathers have ever tasted the war or its results. "Uptill nobody from my family is in armed forces, I support WAR", is what is our current mentality.It is very easy to make a comment by sitting in a chair in a comfortable AC room.But one should realise the intensity of the remark, understanding the ground realities, before making it. Consider a situation in which Pakistan might use a bomb similar to one being dropped in Nagasaki/Hiroshima during the 2nd World War. Atleast next three generations of our country will get effected by that, as proved by Japan's case. People of Punjab/Kashmir and surrounding areas were and have been the worst suffers of all wars(which involved India) , since centuries. The same people suffered the most in all the three recent wars with Pakistan as well. The irony of the fact is that maximum percentage of people in armed forces of India is from Punjab only.

Mon Sep 30 20:08:30 2002
Name:Sudhin
Email:sud_len@hotmail.com
Your Views:A crippled PM, a crippled nation. Andher nagari Chaupat raja. Forget Musharaf.... get rid of these morons first... Laloo, Jayalalitha, Sushma Swaraj and the other Jokers....

Mon Sep 30 20:08:56 2002
Name:Ashutosh Verma
Email:verma_1@rediffmail.com
Your Views:Dear Sir, India has always been a peace loving nation and others have always taken benefit out of it. Any nation, no matter how small it is will attack us in this way if we have a history of having a king who has pardoned same intruder 17 times and then eventually killed by the same intruder in their 18th clash. And we haven't done anything after that to make for that blemish. We are forgiving, non-violent and ours is a land of great saints. But, is politics a saintly endeavour?No, we love peace. We dont have policy of attacking others to occupy their resources or land or whatever. But, if we dont respond to their attacks direct or otherwise, we are bound to face more and worse. Politicians are in deep slumber. Their one point agenda is how to be in power for the remaining of their old lives. What we need is overhauling of system. We need young leadership and also we dont want life-long politicians. Politics is not a profession. Talented people from various fields should come ahead and serve country for a term or two and then go back to their professions. Wake up common man. Reject these old, tired politicians and be the master of your own destiny. God bless my country!!!

Mon Sep 30 20:11:16 2002
Name:srikanth
Email:ps_kanth@rediffmail.com
Your Views:What is going on????? It was Punjab then Jammu & Kashmir and now Gujarat. It seems that our neighbouring country has learnt that it can never win against India in a war, so they are going for terrorism. We also have to blame our government for failing miserably in the diplomatic front. Outside India how many countries know what exactly happened in gujarat? India has failed miserably to make it point to other countries as to how terrible the attack was. India has failed to get the international attention on this issue. There is no value for life of the indian soldiers and common people. The politicians are all concerned about saving their careerds. No body gives a damn as to what happens to people or the country or the soldiers. We need a bold leader who can kick the hell out of the terrorists and the nations supporting it. We no more can tolerate this nonsense, It is high time Indian politicians raise above their greed and think about the country and stop these brutal killings. Jai Hind.

Mon Sep 30 20:12:54 2002
Name:R Sood
Email:teddyme@indiatimes.com
Your Views:We are a bunch of losers-?..No (Did we lose hopes ever whether it was '65.'71,84,'92) Are we nation of Cowards?..No not at the core level.so where's the problem.? It is the "sick" and "f******" politics played by all the parties (BJP,Cong or other) which have from time to time made us feel low and coward.To take a recent example, to make its dwindling popularity rise, BJP made a hue and cry of attacking Pak. and deployed forces (which are yet there and all becoz of political point winning strategy). If they had will, why shud they make statements..just either attack or either call off troops and try negotiating(which again is useful to lipserving the West whenever time comes). What we need is a strong willed nation with a common goal like Israel has or even Pakistan has.!! for that matter. There are no two voices in Pak. and hence the people continue to have belief in their Govt.I'm not favouring the Undemocratic govt. but citing an example. If you give a funda that india is mixed country, then people very well realise that we first are indians!Whether you attck Pak or Nepal?..no one ..neither Muslim nor Hindu votes will be reduced!!

Mon Sep 30 20:17:44 2002
Name:Rohit Garg
Email:rohitg_kgp@yahoo.co.in
Your Views:Forget about capturing any terrorist,what have we done with those whom we have in our custody.they are enjoying a life of peace and comfort in our jails.And some day might get released in exchange for some bloody minister's daughter. What needs to be done in order to send a message across the border to those who think that they can go anywhere in india and kill at their will without much to fear is --don't give a simple jail sentence to a captured terrorist,cut their limbs and throw them across POK or publicly execute them . Then see how many are willing to indulge in such terrorist acts against india. This idea at the forset may seem to be wild,but always keep in mind countries like Soudi which have similar laws against drug trafikking. Terrorists are not humans and only brutal punishments like these can deter such fanatics. Execution and prosecution is a must.

Mon Sep 30 20:17:59 2002
Name:maha
Email:amg_24@indiatimes.com
Your Views:yes we are ,made by our great potitical leaders before and to be inside the house and looking through the windows yes we must fight with full forse and destory if not now then never they will be more strong day by by aids given by the americans

Mon Sep 30 20:18:22 2002
Name:s.s.raman
Email:ss921@yahoo.com
Your Views:There is no point in crying and accepting that we are loosers.Required for the day: action 1. Suspect every politician who takes shelter in name of religion. Real one is one who loves our country with out caste or creed. Patriotism shold be our priority. 2. Call the people in Kashmir and ask them who are not interested in India. Those who say yes want to go across the border must be allowed to go there those who trouble us by staying here must be hanged.No human rights should be thought. Those who donot love India must be kicked out there is no place for them. They have no right to disturb the peace loving people in Kashmir. It should be done immediately. Should take a leaf out of Hitler's book for merciless burial to burry the cowards and those who donot love their country. Hitler's thinking was only Germany but nothing else. Our politicians also should do the same for the people who donot love India who ever they may be.will it happen to save india from clutches of foreign and local greedy elements?

Mon Sep 30 20:20:48 2002
Name:Kim
Email:kim74@rediffmail.com
Your Views:Sorry guys but it seems that we are calling our own brave soldiers cowards. To me our bunch of politicians and bureaucrats are cowards. We should not loose hope because one day new Prithviraj Chauhan will born and change the history and geography of this great nation. It's just matter of time.

Mon Sep 30 20:23:42 2002
Name:Vinod S
Email:vinod@unforgettable.com
Your Views:Most people who have responded say that India is a "soft" state. They we roar only in our dens and have no guts. My question to all these people is: aren't they doing exactly the same thing? Roaring from the safety of their cosy homes? With the added benefit of the anonymity afforded by the internet. I want each person who thinks we are a bunch of losers and a nation of cowards to ask themselves two questions: Am I any different? If not, am I willing to do something about it? Instead of simply criticising ad nauseum, why don't people think of some way of solving the problem they perceive? It is always convenient to play the blame game, but when it comes to doing something, most people put personal convenience and comfort before the nation. As far as my personal views on this matter, I don't think the average Indian is a loser. Considering that he is at or below the poverty line, faced with herculean problems in every aspect of his life, it takes a lot of courage to boldly face those problems and continue to live and often succeeds. Weaker souls would give up at far less! The problem we have is one of pride and genuine patriotism - which translate to gutless leaders running things.

Mon Sep 30 20:23:50 2002
Name:Vinayak
Email:gentle034@yahoo.com
Your Views:My God!! Almost everybody here is blaming our politicians, as ifpoliticians are some other species, not people from amngst us. And how self righteous almost all of you who've posted before me sound. I think not one of us is willing to look within, just going for our favourite whipping boys, the politicians. As far as I'm concerned, "we get the politicians we deserve" is not a mere cliche. It is THE truth which we all our too blind to admit. And the other thing that bothers me is that most of your readers are making America nad Israel some big heroes. Accordng to you all,Israel is not a soft state, but how come it is in the grip of severe terrorism? And what has America done to prevent future 9/11s, merely gone out and killed a rag tag bunch of Taliban. The al qaeda is almost intact, their motivation probably higher than ever before. All that I'm driving at is that by merely posing as a Hard state a nation doesn't become hard. I would concede Israel and america are not soft if the can secure peace and security for their citizens. They may be swift to reatliate, but that is not all, that is not an end in itself.

Mon Sep 30 20:23:51 2002
Name:Kishore Ramkumar
Email:kishrk@hotmail.com
Your Views:'Hum isse bardaash nahin karenge' is too often a sentence repeated by Indian leaders. But what are we doing to show that we indeed do not tolerate Pak's nuisance. India is diligently gathering evidence against Pak sponsorship of terror,for what? Aren't we convinced ourselves? Noone is gonna fight a war for us. There is no point in sucking up to the U.S, no point in troop mobilisation. We have lost 1000s of our soldiers and citizens in 'peace' time. A war can't be far worse? Nuclear blackmail is all hogwash. India sure has a strategy to defeat any of Pak's nuke designs. But we need a leader of inspiring qualities like indira gandhi and not someone who goes,"hum ise bardaash nahin karenge" or someone who declares bandh at the drop of a hat playing into terrorist's mastermind's hands.

Mon Sep 30 20:26:35 2002
Name:nandu
Mon Sep 30 20:27:35 2002
Name:Prakash
Email:prakaash_77@hotmail.com
Your Views:In a way Yes... We have been keeping our mouth shut and hands tied for long. In India there is no value for a man's life because, even after 100's getting killed througout India we are silent. So others are going to take advantage of our nature. it is time we show the world we are not "Soft targets" anymore. In the US as serial killer killing 2 or 3 women becomes national news and they are on alert but in India, the terrorists take 100s of lives each day and they go scott free. I would say we have to attack POK and take over the region and show the world the truth. Oh... Let me stop... we posting our views and frustrations here is not going to make any difference, provided the top brass in Indian politics... clean up their eyes and see what is going on. Whereas people up there are always scared of losing power...

Mon Sep 30 20:31:34 2002
Name:KV
Email:kv_online@yahoo.com
Your Views:Friends, Enough is enough. I'm making an army to fight against these bastrad politicians. Presently i've a backup of $1 Million. Join me and lets kill these paracites. If interested then do mail me back. A revoution is necessary. Come friends Be indian We have to fight a war for independence again. Hurry up and mail me. I'll give u traing to fight. How to use AK 47 against these bastard Politicians.

Mon Sep 30 20:37:38 2002
Name:gyandeep singh
Email:gyansonia@rediff.com
Your Views:I have read all the views before giving mine . first we are selfish (eshanframohse),greedy,careless peoples).we do not respect our fellow indian then how come youll are patriots.i am a sikh(max.no.of sacrifices given then any other indians)gets lots of disrespect from the young generation (so called teenagers)this is faced by other brave sects also like ladhakis,tamils,all of north east).youll make sensless jokes on us youngsters make unapropriate action on us.which hurts us much.first respect your own fellow indian then speak about patriotism.we (sikhs,ladhakis,n,e,tamils)are true patriot because inspite of all this harresment we are very much indian and have more fire then rest of the crowd. by respecting others youll will know the value of indianess,then there will be a fire in youll like us to f**k any hostile neaighbour (pakistan,china,bangladesh).mother india dosent need paper tigers, bollywood type patriotism.she needs real action,respect for all.inspite of joking and pulling fellow indians legs unite and finish of with pakistan, bangladesh,china.have the real fire like us(sikhs,ladhakis,norht east tamils).dont dream of being likes of sanjay,salman,sunilsheety. JAI HIND.

Mon Sep 30 20:38:05 2002
Name:Ashvin
Email:cupa@rediffmail.com
Your Views:I saw a couple of replies saying we should act like isarael. But look at it this way. We dont have the big bro support whereas both Israel and Pak enjoy it considerably. We dont enjoy world wide support. Even though u put the toughest prime minister at the top his hands are tied. Considering the recession that we are having as of now, it is almost impossible to hold on to a war. Our country has a budget deficit of nearly 30%. The govt will not spend money on other issues during war unlike US of A where war promotes defence spending and hence promotes jobs. Look at it this way. Pakistan is not our biggest enemy. It is a small country with virtually no scope for improvement. The fact that such a country can support this kind of a defence spending for such a long time itself implies that they dont spend their money...Their defence spending is 30% of their GDP (We spend 2-3%). Which country can afford such a luxury unless they are supported externally (Alias Big Bro). So even though it is our concern that pakistan harbours terrorists or militants or whatever, it is imperative for us to destroy the support that it is getting externally.

Mon Sep 30 20:38:41 2002
Name:Amit
Email:amitpkulkarni@rediffmail.com
Your Views:India is a bunch of cowards... like me! we only can talk on message boards, when time comes for action we just sit in our home and worry about our lives and lives of people dear to you.I don't know when the comman man in India will learn to react like people used to do during the british rule...We need people like BhagatSingh, thats wht we are lacking.We need to act rather then just talk on the message board.

Mon Sep 30 20:38:45 2002
Name:Vijay
Email:AnIndianPatriot@somewhere_in_the_world.com
Your Views:We are like any other nation. We do have enough technology, enough manpower, enough ability to deal with these issues. It is a collective effort. But, what we lack is an abled leadership. We need some (dedicated) leaders who *really* want to solve the problems we are facing. Someone who is willing to get to the root of the issues and resolve them by whatever means (diplomatic, millitary, whatever...). We need some real leaders who is also interested in putting his/her energy towards the country instead of just concerned about keeping the throne in the next elections. We have suffered enough. And, enough is enough.

Mon Sep 30 20:43:01 2002
Name:suresh mullapudi
Email:msuresh_9@rediffmail.com
Your Views:India is a soft state.There should be limit for testing our patience.India should act though and leave back traditional beliefs that makes our country weak.A strong central government with able and powerful leadership will solve all the problems india is facing.At this point of time our country is lacking able and strong leadership.

Mon Sep 30 20:45:44 2002
Name:Keks
Email:sbegrajka@usa.net
Your Views:Yes we are a nation of cowards but then it is not just our politicians to blame. A country gets the politicians it deserves. Has anyone of us ever decided to do something about the pitiable state of our politics. Has anyone tried to organize a mass movement against these same people whom everyone is spitting venom against. None, why, because all everyone wants is that someone else should do things for us. This collective psyche is reflected in the actions taken by our leaders too... The way out is for us to unite ourselves and make whatever sacrifices we can to make lives better for ourselves and future generations. I am seeing so many mails where people are so vociferous in criticizing. But if I suggest that we get together and do something about it I know no one will turn up. The day we change our attitude and learn that our actions can change the country and take efforts in that direction, we will have begun on the path to a great nation. Vande Mataram.

Mon Sep 30 20:46:10 2002
Name:Gautam
Email:Indian@nowhere.loser.com
Your Views:Stupid country, stupid attitude, bunch of faggots running the country. Come slap us and we wont attack you back because we believe in Gandhism of not hitting back. We need civil war, throw the faggots out of office, attack and brutally kill every dickhead in Pakistan

Mon Sep 30 20:46:26 2002
Name:vinay
Email:vinay_pp100@rediffmail.com
Your Views:Dear Citizens of india,well al these comments which are written here are read by the government authority or any party ,this will be another webpage of no use .Instead of writing here come outside of this internet and stand outside united and then see the changes we can make rather writing stories ,now the situation has changed " sword is mightier than pen"

Mon Sep 30 20:53:21 2002
Name:sanjiv dravid
Email:sanjiv_dravid@rediffmail.com
Your Views:Yes we are a soft state .Indian politician just hide themselves behind the name of Mhatma Gandhi.This politicians from Congress,BJP,Janta Dal or any other party is not interested in the Nation but only fight for their sake.They are in a habbit of making great speeches but they cannot fight for a common man rights in jammu & kashmir and other parts were in a day light thousands are killed by terrorist.We dont belive in any of them they are all cowards.All are "chor chor mausare bhai".We really dont require them.We need somebody who could destroy the terriorist and instead of shouting peace peace could really restore a peaceful nation. Jai hind.

Mon Sep 30 20:54:46 2002
Name:Deb
Email:cdebarun@yahoo.co.in
Your Views:Most of the people who joined this debate want a war. But the problem with us that we want prosperity in life. Are we really ready to sacrifice for our country ? During wartime prices will go up.. many people wil lose job .. that time most of us will criticise PM of taking this harsh step. Remember 'battle of onion' election in 1998. The price of vegetables were high for just 3 months. That lead to heavy loss for BJP in Assembly elections. People forgot everything. We want war unless all our demands are fulfiiled. Can we really act like Pakis by ( like taking half meal a day and sacrifice everything for India during war? The attitude between two country's makes the difference.

Mon Sep 30 20:56:36 2002
Name:Amitabh
Email:ab@hotmail.com
Your Views:The issue is not about softness but about a will to fight. We are so corupt that we would even take a bribe to die. There is absolutely no patriotic fervour in the country. We know what and who the cause of religous extremism is. These handful of rogues can easily be taught a lesson. There is a strange nexus between them, the politicians, the cine stars and the police. To break this we ourselves have to initiate action. And the best way to do so is strike the roots of corruption and then terror. Its high time something be done now or else it will be too late. Stop the brain drain too. There has to be some way we successfully drive this great nation into the millenium.

Mon Sep 30 21:03:07 2002
Name:Maverick
Email:maverick_venky@hotmail.com
Your Views:Has everyone mouthed their views? A/c to 90% of the people have told that we are a nation of cowards, we should not use the principle of Ahimsa. Ok let us accept what you say ? Go ahead fight with Pakistan, wipe that nation off... let us say that they not even use their nuclear weapon[assume that they don't have one]. Do you all think that terrorisim will stop, terrorisim will then be formed in full swing. we will have terrorist act everyday. If war and peace by force was the only way out, Israel should have got peace long time back, Did they get it... no and they will never get it. War or violence can and will never be a solution for any of the problem in this field. Instead of asking whether we are a bunch of losers, ask yourself how can this problem be solved ? Why do teenagers and youngsters ready to kill themselves ? when we are enjoying our life. what drives those people to death ? And how can we stop it. Ask our leaders what are they doing to stop this unnecessary and merciless killings, but our ministers have only one answer " This was done by our neighbouring state and we are going to give them a strong reply" Think " How do we stop this, not by war, but by peace "

Mon Sep 30 21:07:39 2002
Name:Andy_RAY
Email:ar111@hotmail.com
Your Views:Yes India is definitely a soft target. in fact she is gradually becoming a joke to the international community. There is not a single country in the world who wouldn't take any direct action against a neighbour when the neighbour has caused as much harm as Pakistan did. The whole world knows that what India will do is blow hot a lot and act as if they are close to a war but eventually will do nothing. That's what the paki's are hedging onand doing what they are doing. Vajpayee is gradually turning into a mascot like figure. When he should be going to war, he is busy writing poetry. I am not suggesting that the Congress would do any better. What we need is a real leader who will not be scared to do the obvious. Again the foreign minister hs talked about any country having the right for a pre-emptive strike. But will India ever do it? If not why talk about it and give the wrong impression. The leadership of India is all talk, talk, and talk but has no balls to go to war. The leaders talk about Pakistan holding the world commuity hostage with nuclear weapon, the fact is it is not the world community but India. And they will continue to do so as long as they realize that India is soft.

Mon Sep 30 21:17:43 2002
Name:Muthukkumar
Email:ksmkumar@yahoo.co.uk
Your Views:Not at all, see India is land that has a splendid culture combined with secularism. The method of acting in a rash manner by going on a war with pakistan will, in no way help us come out or solve our problem.What we need is politicians with no self interests, which we wont get. The problem of terrorism in one way can be solved by increasing the internal security within the country rather than blamming pakistan for each and every harm that is being inflicted on us, ofcourse its a wide known fact that pak is responsible for all acts. What we should not do is act in a rage when som terrsorist attack is done. we have the power to attack a country, but are we prepared to receive the strikes from them, are we ready if there is a nuclear attack. how far our medical facilities are good interms of helping war ravaged areas. Again this doesnt mean that we are coward, everythin that we should do is in terms of long term interests of the country. we wont get anything by attacking pak, after som 3 or 6 days of war UN will interfere and coz a stalemate. So what we need is strategic planning and improvement in internal security to accomplish a selfsustained develeped India.

Mon Sep 30 21:32:59 2002
Name:Leila Purandare
Email:leila@rediffmail.com
Your Views:We should STOP comparing ourselves with the losers across the border, who have achieved nothing for themselves. The more we compare ourselves with them, the more we become like them.

Mon Sep 30 21:33:58 2002
Name:Tauqueer Ahmad Siddiqui
Email:ahmadtauqueer@yahoo.com
Your Views:Definitely 'we are not a soft target', but we have been weakend by our present inept political leadership, which at all times is looking to remain in power either by hook or by crook, there by neglecting the intrests of the country. Their sole aim is destined to create rift between the different peace loving communities & spread hatred among them & then reap its fruits in the form of electoral gains, this particular motive, has time & again let us down in front of the world. Terrorism definetly needs to be wiped off,& violence of any form against the innocent civilians is a direct attack on a civilized society & is unbearable. But, terror cannot be fought the way we have been doing, we need to unite the nation first, lets forget whatever differences we have & put a united front to tackle the mennance of terrorism. Our power hungry leaders will have to shed their lust & hunger for power & look beyond political power & adopt a more firm & aggressive attitude towards the problem. The integrity & nationalism of any person of any community should'nt be tested the way its done at present. Until & unless this happenes, its useless to repeat our resolve each day to fight terror to its end.

Mon Sep 30 21:43:43 2002
Name:Suman
Email:suman_kumar_roy@rediffmail.com
Your Views:Yes India is a soft state. India is an elephant that does not know its strength and is suseptible to bullying by all and sundry.The only option left for India is to strike forcefully at the terrorist bases in Pakistan and in the eventuality of retaliation, be prepared for full fledged war.But if war happens this time the outcome has to be destruction of Pakistans'military and to completely disarm it. Also to kill all Pakistani generals and senior army officers and completely destroy the entire fighting machine of Pakistan and leave Pakistan totally dismembered so that even in a million years it may not even think of doing any mischief .India would also have to occupy Pakistan for a short while to completely destroy the terroism infrastructure.And during such an occupation civilian casualties are to be ignored and termed as collatrel damage.Short of that war will be a waste of valuable resources. However before doing all that we have to first get rid of the old impotent buggers in power now._Jai Hind

Mon Sep 30 21:43:53 2002
Name:Ramesh Vellanki
Email:rvellanki@adelphia.net
Your Views:My father who is retired from the army has a funny hindi saying. "Hijdon ki desh ki aabaadi itni kaise baDh sakti hai?" In English, " How can a nation of eunuchs have such a huge population?".

Mon Sep 30 21:47:51 2002
Name:Uma
Email:udongre@rediffmail.com
Your Views:It is one thing to be a peaceful nation, another to use it as a shameless excuse to do nothing as thousands of people die. We didn't drive out the British with slogans and poetry. We had strong and decisive leaders who knew how and when to fight the mightiest powers in the world. Our nation has lost its identity, all we have is a flag, a song and a slogan.

Mon Sep 30 21:54:20 2002
Name:secularist
Email:secularist@secular.com
Your Views:NO. We're winners and we'll be a great nation once again as we used to be in ancient times. We have to do two things. Gradually bring our population down over the next many generations to about 3 to 5 crores or 3 to 5 per cent of what it is today. We must also clean up the language mess and replace all languages now operating in the country with a single new world-class national language of our own.

Mon Sep 30 22:05:52 2002
Name:anish
Email:anishjan@hotmail.com
Your Views:We are heading the Israel way in becoming victims of suicide bombers be it at the Parliament or at the temple. Unfortunately unlike Israel our babudom is only interested in shooting verbal nukes as civilians become victims of bullets. What is the breaking point? It seems only when an unfortunate incident that will involve our politicians becoming a victim will we begin to show signs of action and move away from being a soft state. But our unsung heroes-the commandos, the jawans, the security guards are too good for this slip to happen. When will we as a collective nation begin to solve a problem and not just understand (this email included) it? I hope you carry a section asking for "Solutions". I am at a loss of what is a possible solution that won't invovle more killings.

Mon Sep 30 22:09:30 2002
Name:Bhawna
Email:funkewonz@hotmail.com
Your Views:Everyone knows the problems. How many out of us are willing to use our integrity, and passion for India, Patriotism and Truth to fight the system. Stand Up!! Y don't we lead our nation? Y r we not trying, sitting in our cushioned jobs, succumbing to everyday rigmaroles of life?? Its time the Youth of the nation rises and takes control from those destrying our future.

Mon Sep 30 22:23:01 2002
Name:Dey
Email:bdey@tikva.chem.utornoto.ca
Your Views:Are you ? when we have Sunny Deol, Amitav bachhan, Akshay Kumar, Govinda so many of them. After seeing them in Hindi film I dont think we are soft.

Mon Sep 30 22:39:53 2002
Name:Saurabh Vats
Email:vatstav@rediff.com
Your Views:Lets keep our outraged sense of security, and juvenile urge to hurt those who are hurting us and think for a second. The nation that we are all outraged about, what was it before the british? The soldiers, the "Hindu Kshatriyas" and the rest of them creamies, they fought against each other and didn't give a damn about the people. The 1857 revolt was suppressed with the help of the gurkhas, and the Sikhs... So much for a "nation" which reacted with "firm violence" The "mahatma" was one of the rare few who realised the potential of a nation in a rabble of discordant kingdoms that the subcontinent was before this century. He brought the POWER to the people for the first time since the pre-Alexander democracies. It is foolish to fight nuclear misslies with khadi, agreed, but we should stop trying to cover our cowardice by showing our false machismo and bravado in maligning the name of one the very few GOOD things that happened to this "nation". And no, we are not a soft state. period. No "nation" has achieved what we have in our 55 years of independence with our kind of odds. We are a giant that is stumbling, but stumbling forward. We have conquered much worse... jai hind

Mon Sep 30 22:57:23 2002
Name:Miral Shah
Email:miralbshah@lycos.com
Your Views:Is there any doubt left regarding this? Hey, the people running this country are a bunch of shameless cowards. One after the other, our neighbors keep attacking us and take a part of wht is ours with them.. China, Pak and even a teeny weeny country like Bdesh who were depending on us to get their basic freedom rights, has the audicity to infitrate and kill 20 of our soldiers.. And wht did we do? Nothing, absolutely nothin.. And I am sure its just gonna continue like this cos all our leaders are only intersted in is holding on to their chairs.. lives of innnocent dont matter anythin to them.. And as long as we continue on this stupid gandhian philosophy of non-violence we will continue to bleed.. and the day is not far when we will dis-integrate like the former soviet union..

Mon Sep 30 23:01:20 2002
Name:True Solution
Email:pwq@hotmail.com
Your Views:Everyone thinks india is coward and have to act like Isreal. but what they forget inbetween is to understand what Isreal has acheived doing the so called "attack". Where they able to contain the death from the hands of the thugs?? It all we the people are responsible to this sutivation. we never take the pain of electing the right person by going to the polling booth. we never participate in even removing a small block in the road which causes harm and expect the govt dept to do. Let us get to the street, clean what we can, go to the election booth and pick the Mr.right and clean to handle our issues. if we do this certainly the terrorist are gonna to be no where in no time. Let us stop critizing the politicians (rather they r elected by us!!). Enough of Laloo's and jayalalithaas in the authoritative seat.

Mon Sep 30 23:05:13 2002
Name:vinod
Email:vinod@indiatimes.com
Your Views:right ,. we should kill the snake not the tail. we indians should bomb the us of a now we india have the a bomb and missile president so now we should go for the kill pakis are small fry we should rule the world vande materem

Mon Sep 30 23:16:39 2002
Name:Ravi
Email:uma.k@mailcity.com
Your Views:Yes we are . Guys dont blame Politicians . They are our products . Even i m ashamed when my family members voted for a corrupted person for a peet issue with a good Party local Secretary . We need accountability . If we are saying Enemy are involed in any attckes , when we presented to UN ? why we are garned any support ? Due to negligence and racisim of our culture . Our culture is best ? Still we have HIV Victims are second to Africa ( not USA) . We are fighting with stupid pistols against AK47 . We will remains same as we are born slaves for others .....

Mon Sep 30 23:22:35 2002
Name:Panicker
Email:jpanicker@indiatimes.com
Your Views:India has been historically soft. When Europeans, the moghuls and the British invaded and ruled India, we never fought back. Now we think Mr. Vajpayee will fight? He will file another protest note at UN! Indians were not even informed for long, that Pak and China captured chunks of Kashmir! Are we destined to be like this, until, say, Shri Ram comes again to defend us? We are cursed with a group of dirty old corrupt long living politicians. India is converted from land of milk and honey to land of dirt and misery! There is no drinking water for millions even after 55 years of independence, while politicians made millions! Gandhi said to dissolve Congress party, instead Gandhi was killed and they are still expoliting the name!They die at 99 only, when another dirty old corrupt politician takes over. I am delighted by all these messages on these columns with such unanimous view. But what is required is action! I am against any kind of war, as the thousands getting killed really are not the culprits. Just get rid of the leaders! Concentrate on covert operations against Pak and other extremists; fight with them their own way; and change India so none has to be an NRI!

Mon Sep 30 23:25:51 2002
Name:Raj Mohanka
Email:rajmohanka@hotmail.com
Your Views:Need to Apply Pressure on Politicians: The one amazing thing about this plethora of opinions is that they are all in agreement! If everyone agrees that India is truly a soft state and that the politicians do not take strong action, the citizens must make that point clear to politicians. Any elected official is a reactionary - not a leader. The official does what makes his constituency happy and keeps him/her in power. Ordinary Indian citizens must band together and approach their local and state politicians and express to them repeatedly that strong action must be taken, or else those politicians will be voted out of office. This is a message any politician will understand! ;-) Politicians DO follow the people's desires. After all, when the people of India decided that 40 years of Congress in power was enough, they voted the BJP into power. Likewise, they can now demand that the BJP leadership listens to their concerns. If the ruling politicians do not listen to the public's concerns and they nevertheless cannot get voted out of power, then you do not have a real Democracy. India however IS a Democracy! TO DO: Apply constant pressure on the politicians

Mon Sep 30 23:27:23 2002
Name:VJ
Email:vjanapati@hotmail.com
Your Views:Ours is one of the weakest state considering gdp/population/diversity. Our strongest streangth is righteousness and diplomacy. Any one can inflict damage easily at the same time even the strongest country respects us. Several factors have to be considered to go to war which can cause immense damage to the human/material/image of the country. But it might happen, I think time has not come for that yet.

Mon Sep 30 23:30:17 2002
Name:Raj
Email:1@onebox.com
Your Views:Yes. And Our country as a whole is proud of it. It's really sickening.

Mon Sep 30 23:50:01 2002
Name:Sandeep
Email:sandeep@rediffmail.com
Your Views:No India is not a soft state. I respect the opinion of the people that are criticizing India here, but Vaj and co have the toughest job in the world. How to keep India growing, keep Paki terrorists out, and keep everyone else from killing each other. Winston Churchill said: "jaw-jaw is better than war-war." India is doing exactly the right thing by not letting things get out of control and waging a full war. Indians do not realize the tremendous pressure Pakis are under. I'm giving them 3 more years, after which Pak will either re-join the civilized family of nations, or disintegrate into a squabbling quartet of states, each vying to be more fundy than the other. The worst thing we can do at this point is play into the jihadi's hands by being extremists ourselves. Enough is enough. I support Najid Hussain.

Mon Sep 30 23:56:18 2002
Name:M. Vaishnav
Email:mehul_vaishnav@hotmail.com
Your Views:Rather than worring about a physical characteristics of the state (soft, medium or hard). Lets worry about how to integrate hindus and muslims. Hindus need to feel that majority muslims are as patriotic as "Indian" as Hindus at the same time Muslims need to feel that not all hindus are not fanatics and biased. As far as Pakistan is concerned! East and West Pakistan are like armpit hair. They stink and nothing can remove that stink, not even Arm and Hammer.

Tue Oct 1 00:17:55 2002
Name:Hindustani
Email:hindustani@hotmail.com
Your Views:As long as we keep electing eunuchs to rule India, the same fate will keep befalling us. It is time a radical like Balasaheb Thackeray (whatever his shortcomings) takes over and puts an end to this vote-bank hungry political landscape. When the blood of people of India boils at such incidents, it boggles my mind as to how the rulers can sleep peacufuly at night. At this rate, we will return back to the age when Ghazni invaded and plundered us at will. We need the thunderous roar of 'Hara Hara Mahadeo' to send a chill down our enemy's spine.

Tue Oct 1 00:20:29 2002
Name:Amir
Email:Amir72@hotmail.com
Your Views:India is not a nation of cowards but india is a looser because of the wrong policies of a bunch of jokers leading our nation. These politicians also play politics with the emotions of indians. They never try to correct the system and put India and Laws on the top. Its high time that we indians realize that India and its Laws are above all, Hindus or Muslims. Its should be firmly implemented without any bias and all these extremists,Hindus or Muslims, who preach hate among indians should be banned and brought to justice. If this is done once and for all it will send the right signal to the international community that India is no more a country governed by a bunch of jokers who put their political interests first, not the Motherland India first.

Tue Oct 1 00:39:38 2002
Name:Shashi Thakur
Email:shashi_thakur@hotmail.com
Your Views:India has never been a soft state. It has only been portrayed as a soft state. Look at the history of India. When ever there was attrocity or social misconduct carried out against Indians there was an uprising and that is the example which can be derived from King Puru to Maharana Pratap to Shivaj Maharaj to Savarkar to Bose to name some of the popular ones. There was always an action which was taken but that action was neither anticipated nor planned with little or no logistical support and most importantly an element of betrayal pan-handed by traitors. So the aggressiveness which croped up was crushed immediately and most of the event are not worth mentioning because it is marked as unsuccessful. See the tremendous support which India mustered during the Kargil War and that made the war swift and decisive. Today we are unmatched by our neighbouring countries in the fields of science and technology because of the bitter lessons we learned and there is a consolidation of feelings and emotions with the help of media (rediff.com is doing great job). Still what we lack is a response from the politician which has failed inspite of tremendous support inside the country. ASK WHY?

Tue Oct 1 01:24:37 2002
Name:rajesh chowdary valuri
Email:rvalluri@syr.edu
Your Views:hahaha, nice topic and great views. we of all people on earth are talking about who is soft. yes we kill 2000 muslims in a span of 6 months and yes we are soft. we kill police officers in broad daylight as they opposed a local goonda and yes we are soft. we tease women on the streets , young girls in city buses and even rape teenage school going girls , yes we are soft. we kill women in the name dowry, yes we are soft. stop this non sense and do a honest soul searching. we r the cruelest people on the planet. and to add salt to the injuries we r coward. we show our cruelty only on the weaker sections. we ill treat people of lower castes in villages, rich families treat their maids like animals , people in power treat normal ones with utter cruelty.now tell me who is to blame. please understand that all these temple incidents and godra incidents are the result of decades long social injustice.dont even think that politicians are coward, they are too busy making fortunes for their next 10 generations. if you think the politicians are coward, just check them during elections when they show thier true colors. just ask them to show the same attitude while they deal with pakistan.

Tue Oct 1 01:30:21 2002
Name:vasanth
Email:vasanthtvs@hotmail.com
Your Views:yes we are soft state. all those old lazy guys in BJP or any other party if cannot react to the atrocities in the state or else where in the nation and against OUR nation should quit stay at home and tender their grandchildren. The people who minister the state should also minister their health. These old guys dont even have strength to walk properly and they come to rule the state. we have a pathetic democracy where in 70 yr old person is made PM or a CM and more over as soon as they get elected they have parties. after getting elected these guys do nothing but go to temples all over india. They cannot react properly either. There is a limit to patience. No where its said that be patient for the enemy will retreat by itself! They will plunder us and then retreat leaving us with deaths all over. Damn man cant these politicians see so many soldiers die daily what the hell are they doin about that. Why did these soldiers lay their lives for just to be patient. stupid old buggers of indian democracy get the hell up. dont keep ur eyes wide shut.

Tue Oct 1 01:47:02 2002
Name:arjun127
Email:arjun127@hotmail.com
Your Views:What do you expect? A selfish people,divided on traditions,languages,local cultures and casts. The same history at the time of Prithviraj is being repeated over and over again. Why the foreign muslim maurauders,kill maime and plunder,Indians just wait and talk about peace. Shame ... A nation that does not help itself can not survive. Like Iqbal haad said "Na samjho gay to Mitt jaoagey Ay Hindoosthan walo, Tumhari daastan tak bhi naa hogi daastano mein"

Tue Oct 1 02:13:23 2002
Name:ateeq "attack"
Email:ateeqahmad@earthlink.net
Your Views:no to both!!! Jingoism that leads to wide-scale destruction, killing and mayhem is definitely not our cup of tea. We are strong in identity, very wise as a culture and thank God!!! not trigger-happy or self-hating as a nation. If going to war with Pakistan was an answer we would have done it a while ago....Gujarat needs folks who can forge bridges in a broken society and cohese together. We need to talk less and less of violence. The gujarati is a hard-working honest and cultured businessman and he/she will come through OK even with all this trauma

Tue Oct 1 02:13:56 2002
Name:baba
Email:JustFunny_Sac@hotmail.com
Your Views:I've seen all the comments from people that we are cowards well INDIANS include the ARMY, NAVY,AIR FORCE and NSG Commandos and how can everybody make a statement of no base. Please don't forget INDIA is the birthplace of Subhas Chandra Bose, Chatrapathi Shivaji, Bhagat Singh, Guru Gobind Singh, Chandra Sekhar Azad and also the birthplace for Goutham Buddha, Gandhi and a bunch of other non-voilence believers. Well this country is equally populated with warriors and non-warriors, but the power makes a difference wait and see the young blood which is full of frustration and anger will wipe out the evil forces in pakistan and bangladesh. these paki and bangladeshi beggars begged a piece of land from us and are fighting against us. If the Indians spit on them they will have major floods imagine if we pee on them. These beggars doen't have any shame it is the same old saying if we offer them blanket they will beg for shelter, a nature of a beggar. We are not coward, we are being patient as we were when britishers and moghuls invaded us but the history will not repeat and the Indian government has every reposibility to protect their citizens (ps remember your oath guys) MERA BHARAT MAHAAN

Tue Oct 1 02:41:09 2002
Name:Strategy
Email:askmeonpost@yahoo.com
Your Views:We are not soft. I m pretty sure that our leaders are waiting for right opportunity. I hope that when crackers start going off in Iraq, our leaders would make a move. This way, we can achieve better results without drawing too much international attention or criticism.

Tue Oct 1 04:27:23 2002
Name:lucky
Email:minhas07@yahoo.com
Your Views:India is definiely a soft state when it comes to the life of an ordinary citizens. When the kids of these politicians no matter from which party BJP OR CONG.are kidnapped or held hostage, the whole nation gets especially the ministers get proactive and do what ever is in their hands and shake up the whole parliament.But when it comes to the life of an ordinary citizens,it becomes a chess for the politicians.I dont understand when these politicians are going to consider a normal person as the citizen of the country except when begging for votes.

Tue Oct 1 05:02:24 2002
Name:medhavi
Email:medhavidhawan@rediff.com
Your Views:Who ever says that Gandhian ahimsa is pacifism and loser concept is a moron. I think we have had our fill of morons for the present times. Gandhi's genius produced the idea of waging a war without having to spend on weapons. He just demonstrated a concept a philosophy, he did not ask the morons to follow it everywhere. Now if our people can only blame dead geniuses and not the existing brain-dead, money/power hungry, visionless politicians, then I think there has been a major dip in the average IQ of our country. Those who believe in violence, well then wipe out these old,slimy politicians and let the new generation come to power. But the fact is, this call for violence will be met with a sly smile, and a tacit admission that that it cannot be done for those old cronies in power are too strong to be brought down. These attacks on akshardhams have never been a problem,the problem is the government not doing anything about the identity cards for all indians. The only cards indians ever got were the voter-id cards. Now that rests my case.

Tue Oct 1 05:15:40 2002
Name:abc
Email:mdas@excite.com
Your Views:We all are not cowards. It's the nation's politicians who are coward and biggest enimies of the state. While they put their and their party's interest before nation's, we will be bashed in our own country by the hand of terrorist. This is the high time that some concrete steps needs to be taken to uproot militancy and destroy those who are responsible for this shame, be it Politicians or militants.

Tue Oct 1 05:57:25 2002
Name:North American Indian
Email:indntango@hotmail.com
Your Views:The State represents the People historically our race is Peaceful and Civilized Yet we have placed many inhumane conditions on our own people;the state is trying to eradicate such conditions State governments are not all Bad if you have elected officials who are Nationalistic in there Vision of the country This nationalism is evident in the U.S. leaders and the American People Its evident in Pakistan and Islamic countries through the propaganda of Islam Indians have to become more nationalistic and Less Regional in there outlook I have noticed this in Indians from all over Bharat when they come here to North America, they seek out people from "their region in Bharat" to associate with. So you must change the way you view the country an attack in one part is an attack on all parts of the country If you believe in Peace? You must be willing to defend it !!! No your not a Nation of losers and cowards- this simply is not true Have faith in your selves PLEASE. Finally All religion is Man Made One Main Pillars of Hinduism is th e "Awareness of the Real" ie the awareness of reality This principle must be applied to all belief systems to determine if they are reality based One

Tue Oct 1 05:59:49 2002
Name:Suresh
Email:sesh_s@rediffmail.com
Your Views:Confused is what weare.Confused because we live in opposites.Asa nation we face alot of threats. economic, foreign, environmental, social etc.We need to be economically strong cos only then we can spend billions paying our army personnel and wage a war against our enemies.only then can we implement security for all citizens.But..we are not a capitalist nation.we have been a socialist nation so far.Foreign threats.The best wedo is to complain to bigger and more powerful nations.We should strike But we dont.We dont wage wars.Why?Because we have always believed in ahmisa and diplomacy for all this time.Opposites.Environmental threats are rampant in the nations.we face floods in the gangetic plane and fight over water down south.Opposites again.Social.We are supposed to be secular.Yet we have political parties catering to the needs of one particular religion.We are supposed to be secular and yet our constitution has different laws for different sects.Opposites. We have a huge amount of illiterates and yet we rank first when it comes to exporting educated people to other nations.Opposites.Weface these opposing idealogies everyday andyetdont see.Opposites.Weneedto search fora Unified vision

Tue Oct 1 06:14:16 2002
Name:vivek
Email:nvivekshankar@rediffmail.com
Your Views:I think we need to act more and talk less.But a thorough strategy both militarily and diplomatically is essential to guide our moves.We need to use the world media more effectively to show the world the scourge of terrorism in India.That will sensitise the world to our view point .Consequently ,we will be better supported in all our future moves against terrorism.

Tue Oct 1 06:18:14 2002
Name:som khanna
Email:skhann2587@rogers.com
Your Views:There is no doubt that we are the softest state on this earth. The main cause is our bloody Hindu religion Mouse Worshippers). Our PM, Vajpayee is the weakest PM in Indian history, and I am ashamed of this party, BJP. Even Sonia Gandhi would have been much better PM of India. In fact, if we have a Sikh PM ( excluding Dr. Manmohan Singh, as he is too gentle) India would be able to solve its problems with Pakis and their sympthizers. In fact, it is due to the supreme sacifices of Shri Guru Gobind SinghJi and other Sikh Gurus that this bloody Hindu religeon was saved. Let us vote this Vajpayee out.

Tue Oct 1 06:47:16 2002
Name:vnarula
Email:vnarula@hotmail.com
Your Views:I just want to say this one liner "Jo khud nahi chal sakta woh DESH ko kya chalaiga". Just because of people like him (PM) we are a soft state. Throw him out and bring some young guy as the leader of our great nation.

Tue Oct 1 07:14:09 2002
Name:Guru
Email:trgvt@hotmail.com
Your Views:India is not a soft state. We are not a hindu country or a muslim country or a christian one. We are a secular nation. We cannot act like Israel, not that what Israel does is all good in deed. Everyone wants something to be done, and me too, but removing Pakistan from the map is not going to help any bit. If people have faith in our ability to overrun an entire country in a military operation, why not place faith on ourselves, improve our relationships with people of other religions in our own country. If there is a government to blame, the easiest thing to do is to blame it. Why dont we see that the problem lies with us. Why do we get corrupted and swayed but radical fanatics who use religion as their tool to drive people crazy. If we all make up our mind and live in peace, then we can question the govt. to make sure it handles the intelligence divison well and keep law and order straight. And yes I agree that we are a bunch of losers (we have lost our faith in living as one in brotherhood and religious harmony - did u all forget the Unity in Diversity) and a nation of cowards (not brave enough to accept our own shortcomings, instead blame everyone else). Jai Hind !

Tue Oct 1 07:35:01 2002
Name:lolli
Email:lolli587@yahoomail.com
Your Views:I believe that we are more a nation of cowards. If you look at the happenings in Mumbai, Delhi Wherein, during the atrocities committed against women( the rape of a minor in a train in Mumbai, the rape of the women in a law college in Delhi in daylight) the public were just mute spectators and did not care to even intervene. This shows that the cowardly behaviour is rooted deeply in the common people. The politicians are no different and there is no point in blaming them as they are also the same people who were elected by the same cowardly peple. Only when the public begins to show some courage can you expect the poliicians to be more daring. It is like the politicians are the mirror of the public. So I dont believe anybody is going to do anything after the Temple attack by terrorists as we people are just a bunch of cowards.

Tue Oct 1 07:50:55 2002
Name:Ajay
Email:gannerkote@hotmail.com
Your Views:Unless and until we fight back and subdue the evil, the oppression of the truth by the evil will continue. We should leave no means untouched to stop this insance Islamic terrorism, be it by Pakistan or my a section of Indian Muslims. We should follow the path of France, Israel etc. to deal with these terrorists. The only way to deal with these people is to stop minority appeasement and treat everybody as equal. Does Mr. Vajpayee have any guts at all? Or is he hiding in embarrasment, afraid to act. .

Tue Oct 1 07:58:44 2002
Name:Raju
Email:ksg63@hotmail.com
Your Views:We, Indians, are cowards. We are ruled by a bunch of idiots for the last five decades. For an ordinary Indian, democracy means nothing. Because, the common man keeps losing his friends and relatives in these reckless acts of terrirosim without "Z" security. The rulers (the modern Kings and Princes of India) keep coming out with empty threats and warnings aimed at, god knows who. I think the time has come for all Indians to file something like a class suit against the State (government) for its failure to protect its citizens. Or, there should be a revolt to throw out these politicians and instal a statesman as the Prime Minister. With the BJP too letting us down, the Indians do not have any other option now. Sonia's Congress certainly is not a worthy option. So, all Indians should take more responsibility upon themselves just as orphaned children and fight our own battle. May be, the judiciary is the last hope.

Tue Oct 1 08:00:01 2002
Name:Rhea
Email:tweety007_ny@yahoo.com
Your Views:u know wat..Indian citizens shd first elect any politician who has completed his/her Major in Political Science and shd elect the ones who pass it by merit and not by caste system or by money. Bring out strict population controls and not like the CM himself havin' 11 kids. Prob. lies in the roots. ppl shd unite n work.

Tue Oct 1 08:36:48 2002
Name:Shivanand Bellad
Email:belladsb@hotmail.com
Your Views:Having read all these views/comments, no matter I agree 100 % with each of these, my concern is, would this anyways affect the Indian think tank. Is there any sensible person among our polticians who would consider Our views. I appeal to all of you and especially the journalist, do/write something to provoke a revolution and bring in the change. A revolution that will change the worlds views. A revolution to Wipe out every one, right from the corrupt offical to the anti social elements. What will we answer the next generation? Every time we lost lives... we called a "BANDH" and PM assured justice, c'on Are we fooling ourselves? Unless, donot expect anything to happen. Act Now or you will never be abel to.

Tue Oct 1 08:59:56 2002
Name:mc
Email:mc@junk.com
Your Views:Among all the people who speak about War, I doubt that there will be even 10% of them who will actually take a gun and go to the border. If you have any idea what war can do to your family, to your brothers, your sisters, your children, you would not preach it so easily. You have no idea what courage and intelligence it takes to resolve a problem through peaceful means. For tose who do not understand the true meaning of Peaceful resolution, all actions may seem cowardly. This does not mean that you try to please everyone and tolerate violence against you. And this does not mean that our India leaders are doing the right thing by waiting. We must as a ntion come together first. (Muslims, Christians, Hindus , Sikhs). We must stand together as one nation. That is our strength. No country, no terorist group, no religiously fanatical group will be able to fight us if we stand united. Kashmir will fight Pakistan to be part of us instead of against us if we achieved this. Our leaders must pursue peaceful resolutions honestly. Peace and Tolerance is the only real solution. It is the only solution at your own home, your work, your country and your life.

Tue Oct 1 09:29:41 2002
Name:cold revenge
Email:A@d.com
Your Views:We are a soft state, if at all a state. Doesnt the BJP know that the first dharma of a raja is "nyaya and danda"?One who doesnt do this is no raja at all. But we have no justice for our citizens(just see what the guys run over by Salman khan had to say) and no guts against our enemies. But immediate war might not help.It is better to have better weapons(our armed forces were starved for the last 10 years). It would have been even better if we had a defence industry.Remember that the USA came out of its great depression due to the second world war. Till then atleast police and courts can be improved so that we have a better chance of convicting terrorists than 2%( as it was under TADA).

Tue Oct 1 09:41:53 2002
Name:Vineet
Email:vineetall@yahoo.com
Your Views:I dont think India is a soft state or people here are blind, but with the ongoings these day especially chief ministers like Narendra Modi, Laloo prasad ,Jayalalitha...people are no longer sure that whether their own government is lieing to them or not..it is quite a possibility, and a good deal at that, that our media is jeoparadized by corrupt governments and is providing us with wrong information as so called Govt. Of India (BJP & Co.)wants us to see. Thus Indians are confused, but certainly not whimps.

Tue Oct 1 09:47:42 2002
Name:READ ME PLZ
Email:coolwiz00@yahoo.com
Your Views:I see a lot of postings here. that's a good sign. if any one is going to read my posting, i have a request. the only way we can crush the terrorism in india created by the bad people is, we need to be united. the unity can come from any level. from slum, or from internet. why not we form a group for all of us and post our views ? maybe one of the higher officials may have a look at our posting and something dramatic may happen. anyone who wishes to join the group or start one or have any better suggestions, please do email me. unity should be there within us to crush the terrorism. jai hind - SRIDHAR.

Tue Oct 1 10:00:17 2002
Name:Biyer
Email:biyer123@yahoo.com
Your Views:Soft State !! Any doubts about that. Anybody can come and attack our country. In fact u can take our land and gift it to a third nation too. Our honourable Home minister has a comprehensive list of registered terrorist organizations. Subsequent to every terrorist attack, he picks out a name from his magic bag. In fact he is so quick that minutes after the attack he can tell u who it was. Our defense minister has 1 million troops lined up at the border and infiltration is still on. The BJP govt has decided to observe Oct 1st as a day to awaken the indian people regarding terrorism. Is there any indian in the country who does not know what terrorism is ? Yes, we are waiting for the BJP govt to act. We are tired of hearing the leaders just speak ill of Pak and do nothing. We are tired of our leading ministers talking to the US and UK regarding terrorism in India. It is high time we act. Even a teeny weeny country like Bangladesh has the audicity to stand up against us. I believe that our country's face value needs a facial. We need to change our attitude, start acting strongly instead of just crying aloud. I hope our honourable ministers understand the need of the hour and act.

Tue Oct 1 10:48:31 2002
Name:vikas singhal
Email:singhal_vikki@yahoo.com
Your Views:I think it is more a matter whether we are internally strong rather then thinking about we are soft state. We should build our self so strong that we should be able to defend ourself internally from external forces.Rather thiking about attacking other contries .why not make our itnernal system so strong that no one can dare to do anything of that sort. I will end with the quote ."It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence." Mahatma Gandhi

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