{"id":85,"date":"2001-09-26T17:14:00","date_gmt":"2001-09-26T21:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=85"},"modified":"2001-09-26T17:14:00","modified_gmt":"2001-09-26T21:14:00","slug":"the-necessary-moral-retaliation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2001\/09\/26\/17\/14\/the-necessary-moral-retaliation\/","title":{"rendered":"The Necessary Moral Retaliation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bush&#8217;s promises of &#8220;total retaliation&#8221; for terrorists echoes the response of Punjab&#8217;s Lieutenant-Governor, Colonel O&#8217;Dwyer to the massacre and the rising tide of unrest in the Punjab when he declared martial law, saying that the British &#8220;police action&#8221; in Amritsar was <a href=\"http:\/\/65.107.211.208\/india\/history\/colonial\/massacre.html\">justified<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It was <i>The least amount of firing which would produce the necessary moral and widespread effect it was my duty to produce &#8230; from a military point of view, not only on those who were present, but more specially throughout the Punjab.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>And as for the cycle of violence? In 1939, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forgottenhistory.org\/singh_review.html\">Uddham Singh<\/a> (aka Mohammad Singh Azad), a Sikh nationalist murdered the Punjab&#8217;s former Lieutenant-Governor, Colonel O&#8217;Dwyer, in retaliation for the massacre O&#8217;Dwyer sanctioned twenty years earlier.<\/p>\n<p>Said Azad at his trial: <i>He was the real culprit. He deserved it. He wanted to crush the spirit of my people, so I [had to] crush him.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bush&#8217;s promises of &#8220;total retaliation&#8221; for terrorists echoes the response of Punjab&#8217;s Lieutenant-Governor, Colonel O&#8217;Dwyer to the massacre and the rising tide of unrest in the Punjab when he declared martial law, saying that&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}