War or no war?

War or no war ?

This one to address something most impending on each of us, even though I remain no accredited expert to deliver on it. My mind is a free world where any thing can click, and here is on such uncommon calculations:
The 26/11 Mumbai carnage has brought us to an unprecedented position with our western neighbours. What routes further from here? When reading about the event, minute by minute, on the Times of India news site , accessing the internet using a USB doggle from China, I was feeling the pain within. Perhaps every one of us , all Indians-- Muslims, Hindus, Sikhs-- each one of us must have questioned to himself if we were meant to die away suddenly by an unknown, un-understood bullet, or a bomb blast, while dinning in a posh hotel, or taking a tough journey in a train? What will be the purpose of our life? To suddenly die away?
And this bastard-y act from Pakistani soil has put every single mind under a mountain of self-doubts. Yes, that would contain Indian Muslims as well, whose allegiance to this nation has always been subjected to scrutiny by all non-Muslims, even myself, until the Mumbai carnage. Mumbai doesn’t settle the dust from their allegiance issue, but perhaps leaves them with no option but to side with the country they were born on, even if they didn’t like the cricket match victories of it. The ‘unknown’ bullets and the bombs have its targets quite as much unknown to itself; - it could be any --Muslims and non-Muslims - alike.
The 26/11 sent a message across to them too, that they are as much subject to the fear as the rest of us. Same fate and same Hoors or Angels wait for the non-Muslims in the Jannat or Heaven above as for the Muslims, even if the Indian Muslims are indirectly and silently intending to support the Jehad , if they are welcoming a self-sacrifice for the cause of Islam. Even Indian Muslims have families, and as much deep-rooted in the soil of this nation as the rest of us.
The question then reduces to that of life and death for all of us, A decision has to be made-- whether to break the 5000years of our history of never attacking a country, or, an as much old history of taking attacks from the outsiders. Changing times induces us to change the history from here on. It is a post independence India, taking steps for a self-improvement and struggling to make a good relations with its neighbours, unless the neighbours have some hidden agenda, like the victory of Islam, for themselves.
China is also slowly waking up to understand the inherent desires of us, even as the agendas of Pakistan become visible to the whole world. A nation created after a fragmenting of this continent, has no other purpose but to win us over, and then the whole world.
The US is as much in bad shoes as us. It may rather be seeing us coming in the same bad shoes as they already were in. The whole world criticized them, and Mr Bush, for his invasion of Iraq. This carnage leading to Indian assalut would give them a good partner to stand-by to face the bombarding questions from the whole world. The two could explain it better to the world, why they did what they did. Further it would ease the pressure, the workload in particular, from the cleansing job they are on, in Iraq and Afghan. The assault will leave us, Indians, less choice post the attack, but to become one with the US. And that is a cost much less to ask of us today, than the huge collateral damage we are taking otherwise. Repeated incursions in Pakistan by the US drone planes would not yield as much result as one single full-scale assault by the Indians.
The other Gulf states, despite sharing the common religion with Pakistan, are themselves undergoing some sort of democracy-kind of social-welfare awakening as the oil is weeding out or evaporating from their soil. The new world order, of Globalization and multi-nationalism, has taught them to start pushing the religion behind, into a closet and accept the advance of Indian Keralites with an open arm. They minght not be taken by the fact that Pakistan is Muslim state too, while the king of Saudi-Arabia takes some measures to establish the sincerity of Muslims people and Islamic religion to the whole big world staring suspicion at them. Maybe they would sense that Pakistan, now, is the one bringing a bad name to them, when India remains the home of one of the largest population count of the Muslims. SRK, Salman, Aamir, and many more belong to this country.
Pakistan seems to be cornering itself into an unperceived isolation by assuming more arrogance and denials to apparently us, but deep within, to the whole world. To the world, it is now becoming a common Bollywood story of two brothers, born of same mother, and who arrive a different fate some 60 years hence. Something like the movie ‘Race’.
In case of war, Pakistan, which is at present looking up to its nuclear arsenal will have lesser free-will to use, as many Indian Muslims over here stand along and wait for what there western brothers have kept in store for them for all the direct and indirect allegiance they had paid to the former. Nuclear bomb is an end device, meant to kill Muslims as much as the Hindu ‘Zionist’ and the western ‘Zionist’.
This becomes a question of life and death for each of us on the eastern side of the disputed border...