Monday, May 5, 2008

The Brits skidaddled and a million+died

Before I go to another post regarding business I return to Iraq.

What happened when Ghandi forced Churchill to succumb to the hurry-up wishes of the Indians and the British population?

More than 1,000,000 died in the ensuing bloodbath.  Muslim hacked Hindus and Sikhs. Hindus sacked, burned, pillaged, and bombed the Muslims.

And thus Pakistan was born.

Ghandi didn't care if more than a million people had to take a bullet to make India independent. The man of nonviolence received his wish.

Today sectarian violence still is a fact of life. Rickety trains burst into fire and passengers die in a fiery rail-bourn inferno.

Why are we in Iraq and Afghanistan?

The real reason?

Well there is only one reason and it has several locations: Auschwitz, Dachau, and more.  

It is just not in our guts to let people go unwillingly into that dark night. True, we did nothing about the Ruwandan genocide and Darfur is proving extraordinarily difficult.

Check the next post for more Business Commandments.