Anyone with even the most rudimentary knowledge of the phenomenon of terrorism or armed insurgency knows that in any such activity, there is no place for the unconvinced, the unwilling, the weakling, the vacillating. It is necessary, therefore, to shed all shibboleths and face the stern fact that in the Valley is being enacted the preliminaries of the dismemberment and destruction of this country by militant fundamentalist Islam. It is imperative not to think of the militants as Muslims, beloved of the gods. They are simply insurgents and must be treated as such. Neither law nor morality recognizes any rights for them, civil or otherwise.
Talks can produce results only if both sides have the same objective in view.
It does not. There is no point in piling up failure upon failure. The first thing to do is to make up one's mind and the mind can now settle upon only one objective, viz, total elimination of the militants, no matter how many heads have to roll, how much the cost is. Pakistan will never willingly stop meddling in Kashmir. Therefore, it must be bled white in and around Kashmir, i.e. make it so expensive for Pakistan in terms of blood and money that it will eventually be forced to choose between giving up its lunatic ambitions and committing suicide.