Rage

Few things can up the blood pressure of an Indian like the mention of the word Pakistan. Things had been cooling off for a while at various points before and after the Kargil war, but after the Mumbai attacks, atleast for this writer, the hatred is back. And it is hatred, it's not rational. For example, while I don't want them to suffer, I want all 300 million residents of Pakistan to disappear. It's not like me to be violent but at some point you have to draw a line and this is my line. I suppose I'll settle for the elimation of all males of the ages 14-80. But yeah, they've got to go.

The attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team is just apalling. There are no words to describe the insanity. The Indian team was supposed to tour Pakistan and that tour got cancelled as retaliation for "26/11". So SL very graciously offers to tour in their stead to help out a fellow sub-continental team. (Now, SL was going to make money off this too, make no mistake, but it's certainly a nice gesture to make, since Pak had a lot more to lose than SL had to gain.) And instead of protecting the Sri Lankan team to best level possible, they threw them to the dogs.

Call this conspiracy if you will but there's a lot that stinks in this affair. Why did the Pak team leave the hotel at a different time? Where were the commandos? I'd bet a $100 to get $1 that the Pak team got a call beforehand warning them not to accompany the SL team.

And now we have Idiot #1, Ijaz Butt, denying there were security lapses. Idiot #2, Younis Khan basically threatening the world that if they boycotted Pakistan, it would lead to more terrorists. And my personal favorite Idiot #3 Javed Miandad calling for a ban on Chris Broad. Yeah, the guy only threw himself on another person to save his life. Perhaps Miandad would have liked Broad to shoot the innocent man? Then does he get a medal Mr. Miandad? Or maybe, like your personal heroes, the Taliban, Broad should kill innocent women and children?

And Younis Khan, how about you clean up your country first AND THEN ask for teams to visit your country. Tell you what, here's a deal for you. You start by killing a 100 terrorists each day, and say after a 100 years when you make a dent into this terrorist factory you call your homeland, and the rest of the world feels a little safer, we'll think about entering that festering hell-hole called Pakistan. Deal?