Wright and wrong are taught concepts.
Jews into the ovens, very good. That was taught.
Ukrainian Kulaks to be staved over two years to the tune of 11 millions. To be rewarded. Taught.
Pol Pot drags the urban elite out into the countryside and kills those with eye glasses. Rewarded.
People thinking that they are a Prince and have royal privileges because their dad is King. Taught and rewarded.
There have been countless ‘civilizations’ that the best and highest ideal is to cross over the hill and kill the other slobs.
Blacks can’t fight.
Jews can’t fight.
All sorts of truisms disproved.
Why do you think the Marine Corps can take anyone from any background and make him a world class assault troop? They have some secret test to pick killers, or is it training and conditioning?
You don’t know much about Indian culture. There is very strong currents of inertness, depressing passivity, paralyzing bureaucracy.
Again, you haven’t ventured, much to answer who is a city cop in India? Some real go getter hustler? Do you associate the Indian Police with startling high quality, industry, and innovation?
And,getting back to your powers of observation, you haven’t ventured as to why, it appears, all the police held their fire?
Sounds like some sort of edict, some sort of training, or some combination.
“Why do you think the Marine Corps can take anyone from any background and make him a world class assault troop? They have some secret test to pick killers, or is it training and conditioning?”
Uh, they can’t. Many washed out of the Navy (my branch) for this very reason. More was out of the USMC. Even more wash out of the Special Services. In proportion of course.
The Indian police behaved badly. And all your casuistry will not make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear.
These men failed as a force-—that was training. They also failed as individuals-—that is integrity (the lack thereof).
“And,getting back to your powers of observation, you haven’t ventured as to why, it appears, all the police held their fire?”
D’Sousa noted the obvious: A lack of courage and a lack of initiative.
“Sounds like some sort of edict, some sort of training, or some combination.”
And none is excusable.
Leisler,
You love to argue. Here in America, we would say you have Diarrhea of the mouth.
Some Would say you are educated beyond your intelligence. You obviously are very young or very naive about man’s duties to his fellow man. You would not, I am coming to realize, go to the assistance of these unarmed civilians were you in a similar situation.
You remind me of one of my cousins who was a Communist nun-—a Cesar Chavez sycophant. She would argue a wrong cause until she was (or more likely, you) blue in the face. She said, the world needs Communism. I said, “No, the world needs Jesus.”
You arguments are specious, however, because you are trying to justify the inexcusable-— inaction and cowardice on the part of the armed Indian police.
Each one of these men had a moral obligation to engage the terrorists-—irrespective of his training, his lack of leadership, his ancestry, his culture.
They acted as fools and as criminals. End of argument.
Is this just inadequate training of the indian police?
(Not trained properly, freeze up under stress?)
I understand that happened a lot in the Falklands. The Argentine draftees were well dug in, had superior numbers, but most never fired their rifles...