More talk....enough is enough, really?!

Have been watching the news channels - on one hand, enough is enough- let's not forget and on the other, let's see Leopold Cafe getting back to business, spirit of India. There are media channels that lag and others that sensationalize. "Who is taking sides?" by one such tabloid channel is taking sides in the middle of accusing Pakistan's press of doing the same.

In the middle of all this, there are few sane voices and lots of emotion. Emotion has its place but not if this means that we make the same mistakes as the US did in the wake of 9/11. I see a couple of solutions that might work, in the long term.

One is following the world's example in the case of South Africa. For long years, they were boycotted in all aspects for their policy of apartheid. Enough actually was enough and it stopped being rhetoric when they rejoined the real world. It was like magic....slow working but magic that sticks. Can you see them slipping back into apartheid any time soon?

The second one is the economic solution.....pragmatic but hits where it hurts. Help Pakistan's economy, come down hard on corruption (in OUR country), beef up security and stop the rhetoric and we can get past this - get things right and do it the right way. Both are equally important.

And we might want to stop glorifying the Bollywood movies that show violence. How many plots have we seen like this when terrorists/army/police 'takes' a hill/secures a location/sanitizes terror? Funny how hard that strikes in real life.....Bombay film industry, are you listening? Can you think beyond Dawood's money?

Two questions for Pakistan: When will you change the name of your country to "The ineffective terrorist State of Pakistan" and can you please define 'evidence'? Can you really believe that the mumbai terrorist attacks have no links to Pakistan or is it that you can't sleep nights if you admit it? Denial just delays the inevitable!

To the BJP: Want to relive Kandhahar and hostage negotiation? The arithmetic does not work - 154 + 25 hostages saved in 1991 for how many lives lost since then! Thank god, we didn't provide the funds for that. $200 million that day would have given immediate credit to terrorists. Maybe Masood Azhar should replace the BJP lotus.....he will help them win this election. Irony of ironies!

Can't say g'night.