{"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":"

Bush’s promises of “total retaliation” for terrorists echoes the response of Punjab’s Lieutenant-Governor, Colonel O’Dwyer to the massacre and the rising tide of unrest in the Punjab when he declared martial law, saying that the British “police action” in Amritsar was justified<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It was The least amount of firing which would produce the necessary moral and widespread effect it was my duty to produce … from a military point of view, not only on those who were present, but more specially throughout the Punjab.<\/i><\/p>\n

And as for the cycle of violence? In 1939, Uddham Singh<\/a> (aka Mohammad Singh Azad), a Sikh nationalist murdered the Punjab’s former Lieutenant-Governor, Colonel O’Dwyer, in retaliation for the massacre O’Dwyer sanctioned twenty years earlier.<\/p>\n

Said Azad at his trial: 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":"

Bush’s promises of “total retaliation” for terrorists echoes the response of Punjab’s Lieutenant-Governor, Colonel O’Dwyer to the massacre and the rising tide of unrest in the Punjab when he declared martial law, saying that...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t