Friday, July 21, 2006

Terrorism and us

The strongest challenge that we face today is terrorism. Nobody has any clue how to fight this. I don't understand who is the enemy of terrorism? Is the word terrorism itself a political jinx? Or is it the age-old fight of 'haves' and 'have-not'?

The roots are obvioulsy are not too old - may be not more than 25 years. Few say it is the by-product of cold war. Few say it is the by-product of power hungry nations. Everybody has a justification. Every to-be terrorist has frustration in life.

Mahamtma Gandhi's principles of non violent war were never more relevant. Terrorists don't need arms (who supplies arms to them anyway!) - they need to talk, express and negotiate instead of hiding behind civilians of Lebanon.

It is a complicated world and simple answers do not exist. A start of non violent war somewhere would be a new start. Mankind has seen the impossible before and I hope to see an end to terrorism too.

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