I was following a Blog on Reuters: (Pakistan: now or never?). You can find the same by clicking the hyperlink.

I was outraged, lesser by the Blog and more by the comments that followed. If you have some free time (loads of it :p ), go through it and then through the comments.

What follows is what I wrote as a comment. Please read and comment here. I guess it will be an interesting thing to debate.

I am a ‘common man’ and will speak for the common man.

As I said in my last post, when we talk about “WAR”, nuclear-biological weapons supremacy, who-is-who in Asia, who gave Sri-Lanka weapons to kill (and take pride in that), where are we going? What are we? Did you say humans, the so called most ‘intelligent’ form of life on earth? BS.

This territoriality, self assumed supremacy, and our chauvinism just reminds me of the ’street-dogs’. I always wonder why in the world they have such a huge ‘issue’ with ‘my-place’. We call ourselves an advanced species, but have we, really, moved ahead of the same mammalian instincts that we had millions of years ago?

I have two parents. Each had two. That makes a total of four. each had two and hence eight parents. If you go on like this, say for few 100 levels, and think the same about every human alive, GOSH, we will have more parents than the total no of life forms ever on the planet. How is that possible?

It is possible because all of us, some time in the past had a common parent. We are all brothers and sisters, born out of the same primates that emerged in Africa some million years ago. I don’t know how then, we are Americans, Russians, Chinese, Indian, Pakistani, Sri Lankan, Hindu, Muslim, Christian, and everything that can still divide.

I feel pity for our short sightedness. I see a wretched 80 year old in my streets, hungry, begging. I see a 6 month old dying of hunger because her parents can’t find work to feed her. I see a corrupt policeman, taking bribe from a drunk driver and letting him go. And then I see the nuclear bombs. I see ‘big people’ talking about billion dollar deal with Israel for a radar technology to counter the ‘missile’ threat. I hear about Taliban blowing up a suicide bomber in Islamabad and killing scores of innocent people. I hear about millions of people in Pakistan displaced due to war in SWAT. I see Tamil tigers blowing up innocent Sri-Lankan’s. I see dead bodies of tamils, shattered in the war to uncountable pieces. I see hungry, sick, weak people. And I feel WOW..!!! We are humans.

I love Chinese food (more than half of India does). Chinese love Taj-mahal. Indians listen to urdu songs and fall in love. Pakistanis love Bollywood (and Shahrukh-Khan). Indians wear Levi’s jeans. Americans use Indian software. A common man loves peace, food for their children and a happy life.

And then, again. India should be ready for Chinese bombs. Pakistan should have Nukes to counter India. Sri-Lanka needs Chines arms.

Dogs, all of us. Just plain simple street dogs.

I just Love this world…!!!!