"Biju Chacko" <[email protected]> writes: > On the other hand, I see no realistic way how the Kashmir conflict can > be addressed without both India and Pakistan being willing to move > from their entrenched (if not fossilised) positions on it. I don't see > that happening, so I predict another 50 years of this bloodshed.
Positive change is not impossible. The conflict in Northern Ireland may finally be ending after decades of religious violence there. Britain did finally leave India. Slavery went from being nearly universal for millennia to becoming nearly universally illegitimate over the course of just about one century. However, I agree that in most such instances, a betting man will make more money if he assumes the worst. Perry
