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Originally Posted by shek
To expect that any nation could field a military that is void of any violations of any international convention or moral code is unreasonable and impossible.
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That is a bang on target comment and broadly encapsulates the sentiment behind my first post on this thread.
The same off course holds good for India as indeed it does for the US.
I had hoped that when the State Departments observations on India met with the ugly reality of combating terrorism in Iraq, what you mentioned would come into play and I would not have to read more of the same.
That has not happened.
The US is a democracy and so is India, though certainly more raucous. Consequently we ought not to be sniping at each other on matters of combating terrorism, though in this case the sniping is perhaps more one sided.
In the end whether in India or in Iraq, or for that matter in Álava or Mindanao, a terrorist remains a terrorist, and should not be provided with any smidgen of sympathy or succor.
Meanwhile let me also say that I am far more trusting of a GOTUS assertion, that whatever atrocity was alleged to have happened was the act of individuals, than if that same assertion was made by the Governments of a number of other countries. The same goes for an assertion of getting down to the bottom of things.
The same holds good for GOI (Government of India).
Time for me to take a cigar break. A Cohiba Churchill should come in handy.