TOM DILLMAN – AF-PAK STUDY GROUP: A SOLUTION
November 29, 2009 by Gordon Duff · 6 Comments
AF-PAK’S SOLUTION: THE GREATER HIMALAYAN COMMON MARKET
By Tom Dillman, Houston, Texas
My points of view comes from having spent a considerable amount of time traveling and staying in the Himalayan region with powerful Mystics and conversing extensively with Indian, Pakistani and Iranian friends in the U.S. and abroad. I confirmed my thoughts with a several well-thought-of, thoughtful members of the Indian / Nepal / Pakistani community here in Houston.
I will start by answering the troubling questions posed by the Veterans Today Af-Pak study group. I will link my answers to the regional solution, what I call the Greater Himalayan Common Market.
The Greater Himalayan Common Market (GHCM) hinges on the peoples’ economic arena being separated from the religious interventionism driven by the imans, mullahs, priests, rabbis, or whatever as they ever try to gain more control. Religious people have a valuable place, but it is in the processes (the stepping stones) of leading humanity to true spirituality. Their place is not in everyday commerce.
Finally, this is an attempt to consolidate in a few paragraphs a tome about some of the world’s greatest cultures.
Q1. Is the war in Afghanistan a war on terrorism or the continuation of a centuries old set of tribal rivalries?
A1. The bottom line is, the Afghan region war on terrorism is the age-old struggle of the old versus the new, fueled by the youth’s better tools of dissent, tools misunderstood by the elders.
The war in Afghanistan and throughout the Middle East is actually a battle of cultural change fed by rapidly growing populations. Youth versus the Aging, led by the instant and often error prone communications of movies, television and the internet that fuels the dreams of the younger people versus the desire for the hard learned safety of status quo in the older folks.
The educated young want to be acknowledged worldwide for their intelligence and expanding abilities. They want to be recognized as equals. And for the first time in tens of centuries, the intellectual power of young women is striving for that same equality.
The elderly wealthy want to be acknowledged for their hard learned wisdom. The elderly poor just want to see the sun rise one more day.
In the center muck are the emerging middle-aged class, who are driven for kingpin status by the great passions: lust, anger, greed, attachments to possessions and wealth, and ego.
Stirring all of this are the priests, mullahs, imans, rabbis and what have you. They want to maintain status quo with an ever growing influence that gives them personal comfort (wealth) and a narcissistic sense of prestige that comes from being the sellers of God (or whatever name they choose). Little do they know, or care, that God is not for sale.
Q2. Is the role of the United States one of nation builder and peacemaker or are they seen as simply another tribe or even a foreign invader?
A2. The educated, worldly young see us as a hope for a future of equality, of equal recognition in the worldwide social realm.
The weak-minded Nidal Hassans of the world are influenced and trained by religious bigots to see us as a threat that must be eliminated to protect their bigotry.
The elderly poor just want one more meal and another sunrise.
The elderly rich want to preserve their soon to end, false status.
The religious zealot rabble (they are NOT spiritual) find it advantageous to milk money and prestige from all of the above. If that means war, that’s okay.
The true spiritualists (Muslim or other) understand that the human body is the crown of creation (ashraf-ul-maqlukat) in which the Lord must be sought The true mystics understand the human body is sacred. The temple of the living Lord. They never condone terrorism. They never condone suicide murderers. They see the U.S. as peacemakers, albeit sometimes stumbling from the naiveté of over two hundred years of freedom.
Q3. To what extent does the 62 year-old conflict between Pakistan and India play out in the rise of insurgencies in Pakistan and the conflict inside Afghanistan?
A3. It’s easy to blame India for Pakistan’s troubles. But that is wrong thinking. India doesn’t want or need Afghanistan, or Pakistan. The Indian peoples suffered centuries of murder, mayhem, rape, subjugation and slavery at the hands of the invading Muslims, most of whose descendants now live in Pakistan. Yet, every East Indian I know forgives them – not fully trusts them, because they can’t trust the religious quacks – but forgives them.
The Portuguese and British used trade to step in to supplant the weakening Mughal Emperors. The British took control of the Indian population by controlling salt production. This lasted for about 100 years. Before the British left in 1947, they carefully and deviously divided the Indian sub-continent peoples into two nations, India (basically non-Muslim) and Pakistan (basically Muslim). The well-documented British plan was to have the two nations forever at war with each other so that British would always be needed. And therefore, always have an economic foot in the Indian sub-continent door.
The Brits did do some good things. They showed India how to organize and become the world’s largest Republic. They encouraged the many brilliant minds in India to flourish. Conversely, the Muslim religion squelched intellectual freedom in Pakistan. The only escape for the Pakistani brain pool was the military and ISI — or immigrating to countries like Britain and America.
Q4. If the Karzai government is closely aligned with India, how can it cooperate with a common enemy working with Pakistan.
A4. Our Pakistani brothers and sisters need to wake up. War has been a convenient political rallying point for their religious politicians for years. What else are they going to rally around? Building a wider road over Khyber Pass? I doubt that would do it. The British elite loves the way their plan turned out. It fits their need to be needed perfectly.
From my perspective, the only "common enemy" in the Greater Himalayan Common Market region are the religious freaks, the Taliban and al-Quaeda. I know it’s popular for some segments of the politically correct to believe bin Laden is dead. I don’t believe that. His family has too much money. Bin Laden’s bunch and the Taliban would love nothing more than to take over Pakistan with its "free" nuclear weapons. The religious zealots would be in their heyday. They would again ascend to prominence in the historical manner of murder, mayhem, rape, pillaging, etc.
To combat this, Pakistan, India, Afghanistan and others need to build their own regional Common Market—and common protection system, called the Greater Himalayan Common Market. The European model is one of the few things tribal Europe has gotten right. It is only through a similar non-religious mechanism that the Afghans, Paks and Indis will be able to heal their centuries old anger and distrust. Eventually Iraq and Iran will need to join, among other neighbors like Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, etc. Of course, that will not make the World’s elitists who want to control everything happy. Nor Israel, unless they find it advantageous to join a Common Market of their own.
Q5. If the Pashtuns (Pathans), the core tribal group making up the Afghan people, see the U.S. as their greatest internal enemy and Pakistan as their greatest external enemy, what policies or initiatives could diffuse this enmity?
A5. Under the Greater Himalayan Common Market, the "if" disappears. The answer again goes back to the question of what’s in the common good for all peoples in that region. The common good is to be found in common economic ties. The common economic ties and its principles for the members, will be laid down in The Greater Himalayan Common Market charter.
Q6. If a united Afghanistan with a powerful American trained military is likely to seek military conflict with Pakistan, as many suspect, what issues need to be addressed to eliminate this threat?
A6. In the Greater Himalayan Market scenario, there is no necessity for military conflict between the participating states. Conversely, if Afghanistan is left in a weakened situation, there is every reason to believe their peoples are in danger from the next set of invaders, whether it is Pakistan, Taliban kooks, or al-Quaeda searching for a new homeland. That would force India’s hand, and perhaps Iran’s expansionism.
Q7. If, as many believe, the current Taliban is willing to accept the inclusion of women into society and a program of modernization, unlike their predecessors, how can NATO best reassess its approach?
The Taliban claims to be new, reformed. They say they’ll liberate the women and have open schools for everyone. What a bunch of crap. Those zebras are either white animals with black stripes, or black animals with white stripes. Anyway you look at them, they are the same critters.
The only thing that will change them, turn them into self respecting and neighbor respecting citizens, is three generations of freedom surrounding them. What that means is they and their children will have to be recycled in the natural way, so the grandchildren will be free and positive thinkers and contributors.
Q8. Will Afghanistan, free of foreign influences and after a period of expected internal disruption, restabilize itself under a strong centralized leader as some experts predict?
The Greater Himalayan Common Market will reduce the need for foreign influence by encouraging Afghanis to be positively reliant on their neighbors. Without the GHCM, the "period of expected internal disruption" will revert to tribal warfare that existed long before Hannibal and Timur-the-Lame (Tammerlane to the undereducated) crushed, murdered and smashed their ways through this part of the world. With the GHCM, the all important ingredient of Hope (I hate to use a falsetto Obamaism) will bloom within the hearts, minds and souls of the people.
Q9. Can India’s long term financial investment and considerable influence in Afghanistan be stabilizing or is it likely to lead to increasing military threat against Pakistan?
India wants to be, and will be, a stabilizing influence, particularly under the guidance and ground rules of the GHCM. The Pakistanis have an equal responsibility. To meet this, they need to get over their angry inferiority complex and become pro-GHCM for their own survival leading to worldwide prosperity.
Q10. If, as many believe, Islamic extremism is a minor secondary influence in the Pashtun/Tribal conflicts in the Af-Pak theatre, why has this not been factored in?
I think it is ridiculous to believe Islamic extremism is a minor secondary influence in the region. Does anyone actually believe Christian or Jewish extremism doesn’t exist? Or Hindu extremism? How about Shinto extremism? Or Atheistic extremism? To believe otherwise is to be totally naïve. Of course they exist. Religious and anti-religious extremism is the devil’s workshop, not God’s. It has been responsible for the horrific deaths of 100s of millions of humans in this cycle of our lowly creation alone.
The answer is to neutralize religious terrorism. The way to neutralize it in the Af-Pak region is with the Greater Himalayan Common Market. This will not be trivial, but it is an worthwhile endeavor.
There will be time for the GHCM to be a thriving enterprise of economic well-being before I leave this creation for good. There will be a time for true spirituality to rise again, in parallel with prosperity and respect for the peoples of that part of the world.
What we’re doing in the United States may seem hard. It may seem difficult. It may seem expensive. But it is so much cheaper and beneficial to the world than the alternative.
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Omar Sheikh, Ilyas Kashmiri, David Headley, Zakiur Rahman Lakhvi, Bahaziq, 26/11, 9/11, LeT, ISI
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The inter-connections are so intricate that it will become almost impossible to state where ISI ends and where global terrorism begins.
Lets start with one point – the Mumbai attacks and then work back as well as front from that point out and draw logical inferences along the way.
26/11 – One terrorist was caught alive that gave India the first real face of terror brewing in its own backyard and the enormous tentacles that it has spawned within India itself. Brigade 313 of Ilyas Kashmiri (which is itself a part of Al – Qaeda’s Laskhar al Zil) and Lashar e Taiba (LeT) were in control of the operations. Hafeez Saeed and Zakiur Rahman Lakhvi provided the boys, facilities and religious indoctrination. The training and strategy came mainly from Ilyas Kashmiri – former Pakistani SSG commando.
I can safely say that my blog was the first off the blocks when on 27/11 – the next day after 26/11 – broke the SSG connection to the Mumbai attacks. My first lines were : “This was a classic commando raid replete with beach landing et al. It had all the markings of a thorough Pakistani SSG trained operation – which makes it a Pakistani Army action.
It has been a well thought of strategy of Pakistan Army to embed the Taliban and terrorist organizations like Lashkar e Taiyyba, Jaish e Mohammad, Lashkar e Jahagvi with its own soldiers and commandos. These army recruits blend in with Taliban and terror organizations, deemed to have gone “native”, maybe without the knowledge of Taliban / terror organizations who are just happy to have received high class “recruits”.
Pakistan Army, through ISI, now draws back its own cadres from Taliban and these terror organizations for special operations around the globe. For Mumbai attacks, Lashkar e Taiyyba was chosen – but the actual foot soldiers were ex-army soldiers including SSG commandos (leading the charge) already embedded in these organizations – as well as a few battle hardened fidayeen terrorists. These LeT “terrorists” were given rigourous training by either current or ex-SSG commando trainers (sufficiently bearded to evade detect) who will probably be known as Gen Saab or Gen Mohd (aka John Doe).”
(I did not know Ilyas Kashmiri would fit this to the T at that point)
New York Times on 19th October – at least a main stream US media now coming to terms with this factor – Pakistan military and its role in terrorism. “Ex-Military Officer in Pakistan Is Linked to 2 Chicago Terrorism Suspects”
People in the West have amnesia to article like these ones in Times Online:
1) Taliban leader killed by SAS was Pakistan officer
2) PAKISTAN is allowing Taliban fighters wounded in battles with British and other Nato forces in Afghanistan to be treated at safe houses.
Hi Mick,
There’s no doubt the ISI is up to no good, up to it clear to their eyeballs.
So what! That has been their job. We would all be doing the same thing if we were weariing their shoes (or sandals).
However, one of the main ideas of the Greater Himalayan Common Market is to refocus the ISI. That’s not trivial, but it’s doable. It may take a generation or two for the ideology to change, but it will.
Cheers, Tom
http://twelfthbough.blogspot.com/2009/11/hey-maybe-all-those-connections-arent.html
hey maybe all those connections aren’t such a good thing after all
Peter Chamberlin brings up another interesting angle: Naxalism in India.
Naxalism. It is a topic few in the West are aware of. The international media lends little attention to India’s Maoist insurgents, choosing instead to focus its attention on the more dramatic attacks of groups like Lashkar-e-Toiba. …
This silence is not sustainable. Indeed, last month an attack staged by the Naxalites was so spectacular that even the New York Times could not ignore it. On the eighth of October 200 Naxalites ambushed a large contingent of Maharashtri police commandos, killing 17 of them in a gunfight staged in broad daylight. As the Indian government begins a major nation-wide paramilitary offensive against the Naxalites, the ambush on the eighth shall surely be but the first of many battles. …
Naxalism thrives in the regions of India devoid of state control and subject to endemic poverty….Yet for these oppressed groups seeking recourse by way of Naxalite is an inevitable Faustian bargain. As it becomes clear that a Naxal shadow state has supplanted the authority of state government, police forces are sent to drive the Naxalites out. In the violence that follows it is the delits and tribals who suffer most. That Naxalite groups find continued support in rural areas despite the ills that accompany their presence marks another aspect of the regions Naxalites favor: the absence of an educated citizenry. …The area of India where support for the Naxalism runs highest has been called “the red corridor”, a long stretch of territory reaching from southern tip of Andhra Pradesh to the eastern regions of West Bengal.
Here’s the map of the “red corridor.” And here is a map of Chabad houses in India. You can see from these maps that the Naxalite movement and Chabad houses occupy different areas of India. They don’t seem to overlap at all. It could be they have nothing whatsoever to do with each other.
After all, the Naxalites exercise the most power in in poor rural areas with uneducated populations.
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Just after the Mumbai attacks, while reading up on Chabad, I learned that young Israelis flock to India to decompress on drugs after their stints in the IOF. There are Chabad houses around India and they clean up after these druggies, take them in, get their parents to come and collect them, smooth over ruffled feathers from the drug-fueled behavior, etc. There was a series of videos about this, which I posted, but it has been removed from youtube. Imagine my shock.
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About a month ago, around October 21st, some other news surfaced regarding India and Israel.
Bangalore: The notorious Dalai Lama, groomed by India’s Brahminical rulers to annoy China, is helping the zionists to set up a “second Israel in India”.
According to a P.1 story in the Milli Gazette, a Muslim English fortnightly from Delhi (Sept.1-15, 2009), over 20,000 Jews have already descended on Dharmashala, headquarters of the Dalai Lama, who it says gets large funds from the zionist state and also CIA.
The report by John Kaminski says the zionists are trying to take over three North-East states to fight Muslims and Islam.
The Aizwal-based Chhinlung Israel People’s convention with 0.25 million army is behind establishing the “New Jerusalem”. Streams of Jewish priests (Rabbis) are pouring into Mizoram and Manipur.
Anti-China hysteria: The writer asks why the Indian security forces and the Brahminical media ignored the fierce fight that took place inside Bombay’s famous Jewish centre, Chabad House, in the 26/11/2008 terrorist attack on Bombay.
Meanwhile, the media led by the Times of India has stepped up anti-China hysteria aided and abetted by top Brahminical leaders. The Govt. of India said it would prosecute the press but we have our own doubts.
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October 18, 2009
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel’s Counter-Terrorism Bureau warned its citizens against traveling to India due to a concrete threat of a terror attack.
The alert warns that the terror group identified as carrying out the terror attack in Mumbai last November is planning new attacks in India that will target tourists and Chabad houses and synagogues. Six Jews, including Chabad emissaries Rabbi Gavriel and Rivkah Holtzberg, were killed in the attack on the Chabad house there.
The warning follows a similar alert issued before Rosh Hashanah saying that Jews and Israelis could be targeted at Chabad houses and synagogues throughout the country.
So on the one hand a video about young Israelis flocking to India has been removed, and we also have a report that rabbis are streaming into the seemingly remote areas of Dharamshala (in the northernmost tip of India near the Pakistan and Tibet borders), Mizoram (on the far eastern border with Myanmar), and Manipur (north of Mizoram).
And on the other hand Israeli tourism to India is currently, officially, being discouraged because “the terror group identified as carrying out the terror attacks in Mumbai last November is planning new attacks in India that will target tourists and Chabad houses and synagogues.”
How do they know? And are these two things connected? And if the youtube videos about the young Israelis disappears, which it did; and nobody in the corporate media ever reports on the strange activity in Dharamshala, Mizoram and Manipur, which they won’t; does that mean that it’s all make-believe, urban legends, myths and conspiracy theories? Or does it just mean that some people want the information suppressed and have people in place to do it?
The Mumbai attacks were pinned on Lashkar-e-Taiba, but the terrorists’ bodies remain in the morgue unclaimed to this day. Does that mean Lashkar-e-Taiba did the attacks? If they’ve already been blamed, why don’t they just take the dead bodies and be done with it? What have they got to lose at this point?
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Meanwhile, in India the Naxalists have been around for decades, and as the top link explains, they kind of faded away until the 1990s, when they began a comeback.
On our first visit to study the naxalite problem in Chattisgarh (Sept.23-25, 2006), we were able to gather lot of information from the series of meetings we had at Raipur with journalists, Dalit and Tribal leaders, and some NGOs.
For the first time the Prime Minister himself in his Aug.15 “Independence Day” speech admitted the naxalite problem as a “national problem” and equated it with “terrorism”. But we don’t agree with his assessment. Naxalism is also terrorism and the two should not be separated but fought with equal determination.
Since India’s ruling upper castes (15%) are mainly urban-based and “terrorism” is an urban problem, they are forcing the govt. to concentrate only on “terrorism” (read Muslims).
However, not much importance is given to naxalism because the urban areas, where most upper castes live, are not affected. Urbanites are not interested in anything rural though naxalism is affecting a major portion of India and the Chattisgarh and AP states are the worst hit.
Both terrorism and naxalism are by-products of acute socio-cultural-economic deprivation which is affecting at least half the population of India. But the govt. is treating naxalism as a police problem.
The entire naxalite foot soldiers are our village-dwelling people — SC/ST/BCs, landless labourers or small farmers —who constitute over 65% of the country’s population and the worst deprived lot. The upper castes having scented the deep discontentment within the SC/ST/BCs exploited these innocents and taken over their leadership.
Both the Peoples War Group (PWG) and the Moist Communist Centre (MCC), now merged and renamed Maoist Party, are headed by Brahminical upper castes. But those fighting and falling dead facing police bullets are our people. That is why we are deeply worried.
The defeat of the BJP in the last election has made the upper castes realise that it is difficult to fool the oppressed SC/ST/BCs in the name of religion (Hindutva). But it is easier to exploit the SC/ST/BCs in the name of “class” (naxalism). Give a gun to the angry, deprived SC/ST/BC and make him kill the “class enemy”. And then the police, controlled by the same upper castes, are ready to rush and gun down the “naxalite killer”.
Naxalism has offered a short-cut to establish Hindutva — better than dividing people on religious basis by dubbing Muslims as terrorists.
Aha. So Naxalism provides a vehicle for class warfare, where the poor rural people do the fighting and dying and take all the hits, and the wealthy urban people perform the role of generals. How familiar is that? And here’s where it gets very interesting. Once again, we notice valuable things buried underground.
Already the Salwa Judum is fully infiltrated by the Hindu terrorist party RSS cadres. The Tatas and the Marwari Ruias of the Essar Group, interested in mining, are financing the Salwa Judum. Both the Maoists and the Salwa Judum cadres are tribals and they are often made to clash and kill each other. The industrialists are interested in getting Tribal lands vacated to start their mining work.
Chattisgarh, particularly its capital Raipur, has suddenly started buzzing with industrialists interested in exploiting its mining wealth. The politicians are kept pleased with bribe. Its diamond mine has attracted the world’s No.1 diamond magnates, the De Beers, a South African Jewish business house.
Diamonds. Of course. Mining. Of course. Some of the most brutal business-models going.
The RSS-BJP, which is an upper caste outfit, is exploiting the situation. But if it has to shift its focus on Salwa Judum naxalite activities, it will amount to a course change from religion (Hindutva) to “class struggle” which is totally strange to the double-distilled vaidiks controlling this Hindu terrorist party. But the RSS cadres are enthused. Big money is coming from big business and while mingling with innocent Tribals in remote forest areas they get the company of drinks and women. Since the Hindutva heroes do not attach any importance to ethics or morality as the end justifies the means, they are going at full speed.
We had a meeting with journalists at the Raipur Press Club and being mostly upper castes they complained about the naxalite violence and fully defended the role of Salwa Judum.
Already over a fifth of India is affected by this Manuwadi marxism of the naxalite brand. Almost the whole of Tribal-dominated Chattisgarh is affected. Right from Nepal down to Karnataka through Andhra Pradesh the Manuwadi Marxists are spreading their naxalite net.
We have nothing against the naxalite rank and file because they are all our own blood brothers as SC/ST/BCs. Our complaint is only against its upper caste leadership which is misleading them and making them easy victims of police bullets. The principal problem of India is caste system (Brahminism) resulting in socio-cultural-economic deprivation of SC/ST/BCs (65%), Muslim/Christian/Sikhs (20%). Instead of tackling this disease, the govt. is trying to cure the symptom (law and order problem). India is already sinking. The Manuwadi marxists will further push India to the bottom. We admit loopholes in the Salwa Judum which again treats it as a law and order problem. As days pass the rural India is sinking. If the existing police-problem-approach is not changed, the whole country will pass into the hands of Manuwadi marxists.
Some things never seem to change. Rich people want things in the ground, but poor people live on top. They must be moved. Or killed. Or put to work getting the stuff out of the ground. Whatever. Just get out the manual of dirty deeds and start something.
There’s something else connected to DeBeers, diamonds, and Chabad. That would be Lev Leviev. Does he have anything to do with the Naxalite movement? Not to my knowledge, but we might consider this another intersecting circle. Things overlap. Venn diagrams. Subsets. Smaller and smaller. The same people, the same industries, over and over again. Connected. It really starts to look bad after a while.
Yeah I know. It’s probably just a coincidence.
1. Interesting post. Name one major country that doesn’t have this kind of crap going on, somewhere in its borders.
2. The Greater Himalayan Common Market opens new levels of cooperation and understanding between its members. But humans are humans. Some will still scratch for diamonds, only under new rules.
3. In my opinion, the reason DeBeers in is the Indian diamond mining market is because they need to control the world’s supply and demand. Too much supply, and the price of diamonds goes down the crapper and DeBeers goes broke.
4. It reminds me of another Indian story. An aquaintance of mine (a gem expert from England) was invited to a Maharaja’s palace in the late 1980s. The Maharaja wanted to know the value of all the gems stored in his basement. My acquainance went into the basement and saw giant treasure chests overflowing with diamonds, rubies, emeralds, and whatever.
The excited Maharaja asks how much it was worth if he sold it all today.
My acquaintance responded, “Nothing. Zero.”
“How can that be,” the Maharaja wailed. “My family has been collecting this stuff for generations!”
My acquaitance responded, “If you sold it all today, the world market would be flooded and these would become common stones. Colorful, but virtuall worthless.”
5. As far as the Naxalites go, there will come a time in the future when China asks to be a member of the Greater Himalayan Common Market.
Cheers, Tom – Houston
What Tom is suggesting is an unnatural alliance. It would never hold good for various socio-economic and relgious reasons. If it could, Pakitan would not have come into being. History tells us something different to what Tom is saying.
Hi Raja:
I agree with you that history tells us something different than what needs to be. That doesn’t mean things can’t change; people can’t change. If my lineage in America was involved in the slave trade (they weren’t), that doesn’t mean I have to be. I can change. I can have a new vision, a vision of equality for all souls. I’m not responsible for my parents actions, my grandparents actions, my great grandparents actions, etc. etc. I can account for much of what they did, but I’m only responsible for what I do, and what I teach my children.
I also agree that having an economically intertwined Greater Himalayan Common Market will be difficult for many of those entrenched in the old ways to accept. But it isn’t so difficult for those of us with younger thoughts, with a different type of wisdom to come to grips with and implement for the common good of us and our neighbors.
Yes, it is an unnatural alliance. So what? That is old thinking. In 1776 the United States was an unnatural alliance. But our founders embraced the new ideas of personal freedoms for all. It was not easy. In 1947 India and Pakistan suffered a terrible tumultuous time — on both sides.
But the leaders of both countries committed to making those two republics survive and thrive. It started with a few souls, moved to the minds consciousness and was implemented by a multitude of physical bodies. Now is the time for the next great step forward for your great peoples.
This can work, and will work. The insane option will be a continuation of the intolerable pains and hardships so many have suffered in your part of the world.
Warm RS, Tom