....did anyone notice that the Pakistani government just handed over a chunk of their nation to the Taliban??
Being in India, you learn how deeply the dynamic between India and Pakistan sits on the psyche of Indian people. It's amazing. Even recently, I watched a debate where people expressed different opinions about Gandhi. There is actually a portion of India that thinks that his easy acquiescence on the partition, or even it being his own idea, was the roots of so many modern-day miseries that they don't feel Gandhi should even be revered.
I simply never knew that there were people that felt this way in India. It's almost orthodoxy in the West that Gandhi was a man of incredible moral and intellectual traits. At the end of the day, he was human....
Anyway, back to the Taliban.
So, they have been given authentic self-governance by the government of Pakistan. There was a cartoon in the newspaper today that showed a Paskistani politician saying "We will defend the 1947 border [with India] and dissolve the 1447 border [with Afghanistan]." Pretty funny.
I don't think there are easy answers on this one. I authentically hope they have a plan of some sort behind the scenes that will help. As one friend stated, "Look, that region has always been that way. There are simply letting it come into the open."
What really surprised me was that our acting US State Department spokesman, Gordon Duguid said, "Islamic law is within the constitutional framework of Pakistan. So, I don't know that is particularly an issue for anyone outside of Pakistan to discuss."
Wow. I'll just leave it at that. Wow.
