[shri_krishna]

Are you kidding me? Operation Blue Star was to liberate the Holy Temple of the Sikhs from the hands of a few Terroists who had seized it for 2 long years. All sorts of peaceful negotiations to get them out failed. They even shot and killed a Police man who had gone to the Temple for his daily prayers in the Temple itself. The liberation of the Golden Temple and handing it back to the Sikhs is not a "bad deed". It is a "good deed".

If you don't understand the issue better not to comment on it. It has nothing to do with Israel-Gaza War and is not at all like it. Khalistani Terrorism is a fringe extremist movement that never took off in India. All the Terrorists who supported it ran to Canada, UK and US and sought refuge there. Don't forget that there are 26 million Sikhs in the World, with 20 million living in India and that too in one State of Punjab alone. The Khalistanis who live in the West hardly account for even 100,000 in total. They cannot and will never speak on behalf of the entire Sikh community. They just don't have the numbers.

If the West wants to break relations with India by supporting this Terror group then it can do so. But we won't let our sovereignty and territorial integrity be threatened by a group we consider equivalent to Al Qaeda/Taliban. This group has been instrumental in bombing of Air India Flight 182 in which 268 Canadian Citizens were killed. India had asked for extradition of the Terrorist who carried out the bombing 40 years ago before the bombing even took place. The Prime Minister of Canada then (Trudeau's father) denied the extradition. And because he denied the extradition, the Terrorist was able to plot the attack and carry out the deadliest Terror attack in Canadian history.

Learn your history before it is too late!

[JumpCrisscross]

> The liberation of the Golden Temple and handing it back to the Sikhs is not a "bad deed". It is a "good deed"

I guess I understand why they’re pissed off now.

> West wants to break relations with India by supporting this Terror group

False dichotomy. You don’t conduct extrajudicial killings on American soil, full stop. If you do, you’re an enemy. This is a line even the Soviets respected. (And if you attempt it, don’t do it so stupidly you get caught. Twice.)

Consider the political repercussions of America offing an Indian right now. Of course it would kill coöperation. No matter how much it made sense. It would be difficult to imagine the contrition it would take to heal that wound. And currently, there is zero contrition coming from New Delhi.

> Learn your history before it is too late

It’s never too late. And there are tens of thousands of frozen conflicts worldwide. The only reason this one is relevant is because New Delhi made the Khalistani cause international news.

[shri_krishna]

> I guess I understand why they’re pissed off now.

I am sure you don't. Because you don't seem to be coming off as someone who is genuinely ignorant about this issue considering you have been defending Khalistanis everywhere and in every comment. If some Terror group takes over the Vatican, executes the Pope and seizes it, I am sure US would be sending in Special Forces into the Vatican liberating the City and not be wasting time negotiating with Terrorists. India on the other hand only launched Operation Blue Star when getting the Terrorists to surrender through peaceful negotiations failed. We waited and negotiated for 2 effing long years before finally deciding to send in the Indian Army. If India's Operation Blue Star was something that offended the Sikh population in India, 20 million Sikhs would have fought back. And Sikhs are known to be one of the strongest warriors, don't take BS and are very straightforward.

> You don’t conduct extrajudicial killings on American soil, full stop

Why? Is America some God given land that is not to be touched? What sort of BS is this? You are holding Terrorists who are literally issuing threats to our Diplomats putting up massive hoardings calling for their Assassinations and then also threatening to bomb our planes and airport, and we have to just sit quiet and do nothing while your stupid bureaucracy doesn't move an inch forward in extraditing them? We are not morons here. We will seek and destroy all Terrorists wherever they may live. Even on the Holy Land of America. Consider it a favour from our end for not making your innocent Citizens go through another 9/11. India should have done an extra-judicial killing of these Terrorists 4 decades ago. Then Air India Flight 182 would never have been bombed and 268 innocent Canadian Citizens wouldn't have lost their precious lives. Because PM Pierre Trudeau had an Ego issue for not approving the Extradition. You know why that fool did not approve the Extradition? Because he stated that India did not recognize the Queen as the Constitutional Monarch despite being in the Commonwealth. Yes, this is the retarded reasoning he gave for not approving extradition of a dreaded Terrorist. He said that "India was insufficiently deferential to the Queen". That India only recognized the Queen as Head of Commonwealth and not Head of State of India.

> Consider the political repercussions of America offing an Indian right now

Again read your history. CIA has been involved in offing plenty Indian Nuclear scientists. Read up on "India's vanishing nuclear scientists" [1].

It is ridiculous to see a Westerner talking against "extra-judicial killings" when the West does this all the damn time! Was offing Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan not extra-judicial killing? Was drone strikes in Pakistan not extra-judicial killing? WTF are you talking about mate?

You are truly ignorant and living under a rock! Study your history. It is full of West backstabbing of India. India has always been on the right side of history and history will judge us positively for that.

[1]: https://asiatimes.com/2019/07/indias-vanishing-nuclear-scien...

[JumpCrisscross]

Lots of good stuff here. It would come through cleaner with a measured tone.

> Is America some God given land that is not to be touched?

Yes, to Americans, obviously.

> CIA has been involved in offing plenty Indian Nuclear scientists

Got it, a CIA operative went on the record with a Hong Kong newspaper to out a conspiracy that nobody in New Delhi bothered to notice.

> India has always been on the right side of history and history will judge us positively for that

This is common to hear in India. It is, obviously, wrong—no people or even person can say this universally. But it’s also dangerous. Because it’s an attitude that tends to precede a predictable path of politics that accompanies a loss of honest introspection. (If you’ve always been right, no need to interrogate the past.)