N.Javed,
Of course kashmiris are suffering a lot due to the ongoing clash between the Indian security forces and the LeT and the world desperately need a solution in the kashmiri issue..Let us imagine kashmir is liberated from India, then who is going to rule it? Another Taliban or a terrorist like Lakhvi?The situation will only worsen for the native people,particularly the women.There will be terrorist infestation and It will become another NWFP..The Islamic fanatics will ban education for women there.Pakistan has no control over its Government itself.Then how can we expect it to form a stable Kashmiri Government? Better be with a known devil called India than with an unknown islamic rule that will only worsen the peace process ...

For seven years all I have heard from the left is that the real fight against al-queda is in Afghanistan and that the war in Iraq was immoral and wrong......"more troops to Afghanistan" was the battle cry (including from the president elect).

Now everyone wants to discuss the nuances of the relationship between Pakistan and India and give us their "arm chair" quarterback analysis. Mark my word.....the left will soon tire of the fighting in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Why? Because they are basically pacifists and/or isolationists who forget the attacks on 9/11 and live in a cocoon. We are not in the region to solve the India-Pakistan issues.......we are there to hunt and kill al qaeda.

How many of you have relatives in Armed forces?. In 9/11 you had less then 2500 died and half of them disappeared to collect insurance and it was a not lic to go and kill someone else 's eldery, women and children by thousands. Pakistan has lost thousands of soldiers fighting someone else 's drug war. War in Afghanistan USA is fighting so that Karzai brothers can run their drug trade free from any hassles. What else is the reason for war in a moutain region devoid of oil. In addition, perhaps to allow India to openly run terrorist camps in Afghanistan so that a narrow minded hindu can bogged down due to its leader 's inherrent small mindedness. Stephen Cohen just arrived from Sri Lanka and says that India is openly terrorising SL via Tamils. India is openly crossing border in Nepal with its forces and Nepali resent it every day and they are trying to bring back monarchy because at least it had some self respect.
USA liked Pakistan when it could send its offspring to fight in afghanistan against Russians and in Bosnia against serbs. Now it is fashionable to call them, terrorists and fundamentalists. How many have you fought for USA, you cowards? More Arabs and Muslims have died fighting america's dirty wars then any of you so it can be lone super power and so it can turn around and kill the people who made it a super power.One hell of a way to thank the people who got you there. India is non-consequential backward Hindu state trying to act as poodle for western world but it is clumsy and gets caught playing its dirty game and isn't going anywhere any time soon. Now that USA is bankrupt and can't hire all those substandard y2k consultants now they can apply for jobs to go on the moon and I am sure it pays well. India 's projected growth rate for next 20 years -7% slightly higher then Nepal 's.

The biggest thing that must always be taken into account is Israel's role in the disruption of the Middle East. Jews of the world required a homeland after all the massive violence directed against them, and apparently Israel was the only reachable solution to this.

We should work on helping to change the minds and ideas of the millions of the world's Moslems until they understand that: 1) the Holocaust - both the European and the Russian one - did indeed happen; 2) they are not to blame for all the problems or even disparity of religious opinions between them and the Jewish people; 3) they can find a workable compromise and solutions for the parceling out of land in the Israel/Palestine region.

Until some sort of workable compromise is reached, we will continue to see the problems we have been seeing, such as terrorism and the wars and struggles in the entire region that we have been seeing.

That seems to be a pretty big investment for the U.S. to do. Hope the conflicts will eventually end soon.