India against a terror state
Every time terror strikes India, there is the usual wailing and breast beating. Debates follow on how to hit back. Our selfish politicians have relegated national security to the back benches. All they are interested in is raising their pay, creating controversies for vote banks and ways to loot the nation. The armed forces have been continuously degraded and humiliated in various ways. Every pay commission has systematically improved the status of the exalted civil services (read
babus). There has not been any knowledgeable debate on national security. We are saddled with two very hostile neighbours ever on the lookout to needle us. Hardly any politician is aware of the nitty-gritty of defence matters. The entire defence ministry is manned by the civil service gang which has never seen even the back end of a gun! Every defence procurement is riddled with swindle, scandal and scam. Vital requirements are stalled by ill-informed babus. In such times of crises, we have our political clan letting out a lot of hot air from both ends. A dynasty is fighting to keep control of UP. Two southern states are embroiled over water sharing. The GOP is always out to downplay the government in power with their Hamlet shouting gibberish.
The mighty USA now shedding crocodile tears on the recent Uri terror strike is indirectly responsible for creating a Frankenstein of Pakistan. Right from the time John Foster Dulles, the US has been mollycoddling Pakistan. The US was also instrumental in Pakistan becoming a nuclear power. It turned a blind eye to the interchange of technology between China and North Korea because it suited its interests. The axis of evil of these three countries changed the nuclear scenario of South Asia. Just for the sake of it, the US keeps warning Pakistan during such incidents, which is never heeded to and this renegade nation continues its nefarious agenda, unhindered. For a long time the much wanted Osama bin Laden was kept well hidden by the Pakistan Army and ISI. Only now it has realised how untrustworthy is its ally. India should have retaliated after the 2008 Mumbai massacre. We did not and Pakistan was assured that we do not have the will to do so hence further attacks followed. Isolation hardly matters to them. The only answer is for the US to completely stop bankrolling a terror state and impose sanctions. Pakistan is totally subsidised by misplaced American generosity. Once this dries up, the terror activities will dwindle and eventually come to a halt.