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The problems of India, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh are now bleeding into one another, and any purely national approach is not going to work. The best outcome of these attacks would be if they spurred cooperation and reform. If instead they feed rivalry, bitterness and finger-pointing, the victims will have died in vain, and there will be more victims and an insecure neighborhood.

The crucial point is to remember the common enemy. When discussing causes and cures, never forget who is to blame first and foremost: the terrorists, the evil men who chose to deliberately kill innocent men, women and children, to burn young families to death. They are the ones who did it.

And while Indians have many troubles, they have one great counterterrorism policy—resilience. The Mumbai stock exchange reopened last Friday and closed higher. The country will persevere, the city will bounce back, and all those who have reasons to go there should not be deterred.

I have a trip to India planned in a couple of weeks. I'll be there as scheduled. And I will make a special point to pay a visit to the Taj Mahal hotel in Mumbai, which I am sure, will be humming with life.

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  • Posted By: mountainbreez @ 03/10/2009 9:00:39 AM

    Fareed Zakaria is a slef loathing Muslim , and a political hack.

    The guy showed once and again an incredible and embarressing lacking of knowledge and grasp of realities in almost every topic he chooses to engage in analysis and debtae!!!

    He has been caught by keen obersvors as well as ordinary listeners while flip flopping about the same issue , often adopting on one stance a staggering 180 degress change of heart and an acrobatic somersault ony befitting of a clown!!!

    Fareed Zakaria is a political hack of the largest caliber, a pseudo pundit who thought he could conquer his humble racial and national origins by adopting hawkish neocon attitudes and false -unbecoming of him in particular- guise of elitism

    Gees Fareed, you almost fooled the whole lot of us to believe for a moment you were an all American WASP like
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    GET OVER YOURSELF YOU HINDU ISLAMOPHOBE SCUM Bahindi..

  • Posted By: mountainbreez @ 03/10/2009 9:00:08 AM

    Fareed Zakaria is a slef loathing Muslim , and a political hack.

    The guy showed once and again an incredible and embarressing lacking of knowledge and grasp of realities in almost every topic he chooses to engage in analysis and debtae!!!

    He has been caught by keen obersvors as well as ordinary listeners while flip flopping about the same issue , often adopting on one stance a staggering 180 degress change of heart and an acrobatic somersault ony befitting of a clown!!!

    Fareed Zakaria is a political hack of the largest caliber, a pseudo pundit who thought he could conquer his humble racial and national origins by adopting hawkish neocon attitudes and false -unbecoming of him in particular- guise of elitism

    Gees Fareed, you almost fooled the whole lot of us to believe for a moment you were an all American WASP like
    conservative elitist.

    GET OVER YOURSELF YOU HINDU ISLAMOPHOBE SCUM Bahindi..

  • Posted By: Trooper101st @ 02/12/2009 8:26:40 AM

    SALIM, me thinks ur the pot callin ye kettle black...oh, thanx for letting us use the airbase WE built during the course of these wars. With friends like you, who needs enemies. If we didn't need ur oil, ur "kingdom" would be a vast glass parking lot. You 2 faced m-f*^%er!!!

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