If the US can, why can't we?

Professors know all the theories but do they know where to apply them? One professor has written about a theory propounded by a sociologist, Mark Granovetter which postulates that an action by one person in response to a perceived offence sets a threshold for the rest of society. This theory was used to explain a spate of shootings in US schools. The professor is writing about the recent attacks on writers in India but he is guilty of conflating the causes of different incidents as the biased media in India has done. There is no excuse for killing anyone even if his writings are intentionally offensive in an effort to sell his book. The commonest cause for murder in India today is a dispute regarding real estate, because prices have risen to astronomical levels, but police have quickly ruled out that motive. We do not know how. In the second incident Shiv Sena activists threw paint over one Kulkarni who was launching a book by the former Foreign Minister of Pakistan, Khushid Mahmud Kasuri. This is completely different from the first incident. Firstly, it is to do with local politics. The Shiv Sena is a junior partner in the present state government in Maharashtra and is afraid of losing control of the municipal corporation of Mumbai, which is the richest in India with a budget of Rs 312 billion. That would make the Sena irrelevant and, since power and pelf come from ministerial posts, politicians in India will kill to win elections. However, the real question is why does this Kulkarni want a former minister of Pakistan to sell books in India? This is a country which regularly threatens to use nuclear weapons against us. At the very least Kulkarni should be charged with sedition for consorting with the enemy. It is a mystery why some Indians are so keen to become pally with Pakistanis when a journalist writes that she and all Pakistanis support the army and the ISI because they fight terrorism. It is clear that she is either ignorant or comfortable with support for terrorist attacks against India. But a bigger mystery is why are we so weak? Why do we concentrate so much on what the US says on Pakistan? It is as if we are wimps being beaten up by a schoolyard bully and then running to complain to the teacher. We analyse every meeting between the US and Pakistan. The US government clearly knows about Pakistani support for terrorists as hacked emails of the CIA Director have revealed. Yet it nods when Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif spouts the same old lies and rewards him by giving eight F16 planes. On the one hand they threaten us and then beg to play cricket against us to make money. Since we admire the US so much we should copy it. Declare Pakistan a terrorist state, cut off all relations with it, build a fence along the border, lay landmines so that not even a mouse can cross over and apply economic sanctions on it. After all Bill Clinton applied sanctions on us after nuclear tests. What is sauce for the goose..... etc.