Innocents Quotes
He was echoing proposals that he made in the Delhi Emergency Committee that had been called to cope with the butchery and murder when the Hindus and Sikhs were trying to leave the areas that were to be part of Pakistan under the Partition and the retaliations against the Delhi Muslims who were trying to flee to the new Pakistan. Unfortunately, the Muslim leadership did not want such a truce as while the land had been partitioned, Indian Money, military equipment, and other resources were yet to be divided and the Muslim leaders who had been so successful playing the violence card to gain and independent Pakistan, did not want to give up that option in the remainder of the division of India. Also, it was not at all clear that the Muslim political leaders could even then control the mobs who they had already whipped up to violence.
The Russians had contended with Islamic terrorist attacks on Russian territory for years before 9-11. To a great extent when they sent troops into the Muslim neighborhoods where the terrorists had come from, they were frequently criticized by some Americans and others for responses that were too harsh and/or disproportionate. However, many Americans became more empathetic to the Russian plight and when we invaded and occupied Afghanistan and Iraq, the Russian responses looked mild in comparison.
