[Cronos]

My point wasn't to exculpate Sikh extremists, it was to illustrate how unpopular Indira Gandhi was.

I thought you were trying to attempt to potray how this "dictator" trampled on human rights of minorities. There wasn't any doubt she was unpopular among Sikhs for ordering the storming of their most Holy site, but it had to be done -- extremists had taken control of the place.

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

Somehow, the goon squads of Moqtader al-Sadr were able to be successfully neutralized without American marines-or Iraqi Defense Forces-physically storming the Imam Ali Shrine.

The IDF were able to force the surrender of Palestinian terrorists who had taken the Church of the Nativity hostage, without adding to the destruction already inflicted by the Fatah gangsters who had seized control of it.

The seminal event of Indira Gandhi's domestic agenda was not a display of strong-willed leadership, so much as it was a confirmation of the fact that her primary method of negotiation was the application of brute force.