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There is no concept of morality in international geopolitics for any country, since it applies only in the personal domain.

He has "clarified" many of his comments, including this one.

Open mouth, insert foot. And it is not the first time either. Oh well, we work with what we are given.

Why not send the refugees back to where they came from? Pakistan has played host long enough.

No more and no less than a similar photo showing them in the White House. Remember the "moral equivalent" quip? This is merely the relentless pursuit of national interests, and nothing else. International Geopolitics 101.

Who can say no to a nice BBQ party?

It will be interesting to see how governance in Afghanistan evolves in the next few years.

China is only interested in ensuring that no fanaticism spills over from the mess to within its western regions, that is all.

Pakistan is heading towards embarrassment, but then again that is the precise reason PMIK has been put up as the façade to take the hits. The next turn of musical chairs will be decided by the usual suspects in the time-honored Pakistani traditions, yet again.

Golden words for a principle that must not be forgotten.

Yes, but how many want to recreate the past glories of empires gone by, not just in India, but all across the globe. Those are surely misguided.

And those that choose to live in the past not only ruin their present but also lose out on their future.

Exactly correct.

Wasn't that invasion more than a 1,000 years ago? That is like the Native Americans still complaining about the European invasion, or the Aztec descendants complaining about Cortes. At some point one must move on from ancient history.

Online flame wars are okay. Real ones killing people, not so much.

What I find amazing, and in a majority of the world, is that this is the best of times and the worst of times for vaccines. We can create new and effective vaccines quickly as never before, and yet we have people who do not want to take them, as never before. Quite perplexing, TBH.

I have said that that solution is the only one feasible in my view, many, many times.

I am sure that the team that dealt with the previous variants will be able to deal with the Delta variant too.

Let us just hope that this great performance also applies to the Delta variant.

As I said: "as best as it can."