A_Kumar: Other thread is locked, .. since you are asking I am putting a brief reply here.
@ Amber G
Note that I have NOT opted for (1), I don't see any point in it. Having said that, I am amused by your defensive post, because if at all anybody has to feel embarrassed, it is Khan.
Instead of staying on the back-foot, maybe this is an opportunity for you to ask why your country is undermining natural allies. Infact, if you are so offended by all, then maybe you can answer for them. Starting from a point where a US president had one of the highest approval ratings in India (2007), we have now moved back at least 10 years, why is that?
Actually, my post is rhetorical. I understand Khan's reasons, but what I do not understand is your embarrassment at "Indian reaction, instead of choices of Khan vis-a-vis India"
--Added later--
While you maintain that "you" have not specifically wished ill ("you are NOT the same as the country" and so you bear no responsibility for the country's actions that harm Indians everyday), but you feel that "you" are personally targeted when Indians wish for Khan to be in same boat as they are against Khan's tools (now "you are the same as country"!).
First I am glad that you think you are amused, but really there is no defensiveness in my post, nor there is any embracement from my side.
Nor staying of back foot (or front foot for that matter). I do not need this “opportunity”, to ask and ponder that kind of (or other kind of) questions. I am pretty comfortable and proud to be what I am. NO embarrassment at all - and sorry if you don’t find me commenting on all the things which you want to be discuss here –eg why and how of dy/dx of approval ratings of US presidents in India … any more than say (just an example ) when people ask me why "Gujarat Riots" .. Reasons are complicated, and have been discussed, Besides that will be OT
Stating the obvious,
I was merely talking about silliness (IMO, of course) of wishing of hit on US (with terrorists attack).
To be frank, I don’t know exactly what you meant wrt “(now "you are the same as country"!)…. I am sure there is some deep meaning there ( I know people also talk all the time about “root cause” , “freedom fighters” CIA/Mossad/RAW justifies terrorists hit etc).. for me hitting US (or India) is not some abstract,
it’s the people who get hit,
In any case, all I was trying to say there was that the wish that “US gets hit” is, to put it lightly, silly.
Now, if the wish was some thing like –
“Wish Indian security stopped/killed Headley when he was scouting and was in India”
or
“Wish Indian Policemen had better weapons then .303’s to counter the scums”
That will be example of non-silly wishes.
But ..Jumping straight to, or making it number one wish “US gets hit” is just silly.
Anyway that’s what I think, you are welcome to differ.
(BTW, in 9/11 when US's WTC got hit, India was third on the list of the countries who had the most citizens killed – after USA and UK -- and it did not stop 26/11)