US the wrong place to go to talk about Pak terror
- From: Mirza Ghalib <mghalib01@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 03:45:34 -0700 (PDT)
Dead right! US has other territorial interests than being bothered
about India. And it has its own problems in Pakistan and
Afghanistan. Most likely it also serves as a conduit for vital info
delivered to Pak, to the detriment of India.
Why is "Chid" running to US, after all? It should be the the
responsibility
of the external affairs ministry, should it not?
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US THE WRONG PLACE TO TALK ABOUT PAK TERROR
By Dr. Jay Dubashi, Organiser Oct 4
http://www.organiser.org/dynamic/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=311&page=6
"The Chinese fooled even Nehru, for, he called all such incursions
cartographic aggressions-Nehru was a master of words, for didn’t he
spend time in Eton and Cambridge, where such words are coined?-meaning
they were no problems at all and not worth fighting over. The Chinese
didn’t think so. They may have invented paper two thousand years ago,
but they have more faith in their armies than that in their fancy
paperwork."
Our friend, Home Minister P Chidambaram is back from the US after
reporting to his bosses over there that Pakistan is not behaving
properly and India is deeply dissatisfied with progress of
‘investigations" into 26/11 supposed to be conducted by Pakistan. Read
that sentence again and you will start laughing. Firstly, it was the
Home Minister who was reporting to Washington, not the Foreign
Minister. Now, why should a home minister, or any minister for that
matter, report to anyone outside the country? Are we a colony of the
United States? Do we have to report to them every now and then as the
Viceroy used to do to 10 Downing Street from time-to-time when we were
indeed a colony?
Then comes the bit about investigations. Who says that Pakistan is
conducting investigations? The Pakistan government’s writ does not run
beyond a few miles outside Islamabad. How long since we had any news
about Asif Ali Zardari, who is supposed to be Pakistan’s President? Is
he still alive, maybe reading that book about Jinnah by his favourite
author, or has he been bumped, as most Pakistani presidents are? And
if he is out of action, who exactly has taken his place?
The fact is that if Chidambaram was in the US to complain about
Pakistan, he went to the wrong place. Pakistan, the little bit that
still exists on paper, and America are allies, and have been allies
ever since the birth of that country. The two allies collaborate
closely on everything from nuclear energy to missiles, and while
Pakistan pretends to fight the terrorists, America pretends to believe
it is really doing so. America has had bases in Pakistan for the last
50 years and will continue to do so till kingdom come. And currently
it provides a big base for their forces in Afghanistan.
In fact, Barack Obama has realised that he has lost the fight in
Afghanistan and the American people are tired of sending their young
men to fight all over the world from where they return home in
caskets. They do not know why they are fighting in Afghanistan just as
they did not know why they were fighting in Vietnam. The Vietnam war
was over long before it was officially declared closed and so is the
Afghan war. Actually, almost the whole of Afghanistan is now under the
Taliban, except a few bits around Kabul and it is a matter of time
before that falls too.
When Chidambaram goes to Washington to complain against Pakistan, he
will be complaining to the wrong party, for, as I said, Pakistan is an
ally of America, and nothing happens in Pakistan without the knowledge
of the United States. I am quite sure Washington has a copy of the
list of complaints he has taken with him. America is not a neutral
party in the affair; it is very much involved in everything that is
happening in Pakistan. If Chidambaram does not know this, he has a
great deal to learn, just as he had a great deal to learn about
finance when he became Finance Minister. If Chidambaram is so keen on
the Washington trip, let him have one, but let him not pretend that he
is doing anything useful. The Americans in the State Department, or to
whoever he will be reporting, will be laughing behind his back and
saying under their breath what a foolish lot Indians are, as our
minister goes from office to office asking for a hearing.
Then there is another colleague of Chidambaram’s in the cabinet, the
so-called Minister of External Affairs, so-called because we rarely
hear about him, and who, one would have thought, would be doing what
Chidambaram proposes to do. But SM Krishna, that is what his name is
in case you do not know, seems to be the least informed Foreign
Minister in this part of the world. He told reporters in Delhi that
the India-China border is the most peaceful around India and our
relations with China have never been friendlier.
You can say that again. Krishna feels that China’s incursions into
India-and this is what our air force has said in so many words-are no
incursions at all and in any case, there is a committee of experts to
look into such problems. "I don’t think", said the man who is more
interested in his wardrobe than in the goings-on in Ladakh, or
wherever it is that the Chinese are massing, and called for his tailor
to stitch another band-gala for his next outing in, where else,
Venezuela.
If small-time committees could tackle problems of incursions, you
would not need armies and navies at all. All wars start when nations
intrude, often with their armies, into other nations’ backyards. This
is how the Second World War started. Right up to the start of the war,
Neville Chamberlain was saying that everything was under control, that
all committees, to tackle border disputes were in place, and everybody
could switch off lights and go to sleep. Incidentally, Chamberlain was
fond of natty suits too, except that they were of the wrong cut, just
like Krishna’s suits!
Actually it was Chamberlain, like Krishna, who was going to sleep,
while Hitler was cooking up maps and alerting his cronies. Krishna is
basically a babu; he thinks that all problems can be solved if you
have proper files with proper notings and nothing can go wrong as long
as the files are there. And that is precisely what Krishna is saying.
He says that there are proper border dispute committees with a joint
secretary, a deputy secretary and maybe a couple of peons, and as long
as they have not reported anything, everything is fine. And if the
Chinese are really intent on creating trouble, they will first inform
the committee-in triplicate-and then we shall see what to do.
The Chinese fooled even Nehru, for, he called all such incursions
cartographic aggressions-Nehru was a master of words, for didn’t he
spend time in Eton and Cambridge, where such words are coined?-meaning
they were no problems at all and not worth fighting over. The Chinese
didn’t think so. They may have invented paper two thousand years ago,
but they have more faith in their armies than that in their fancy
paperwork. They came over the Himalayas, firing from all sides, and in
no time at all, had Nehru running for cover, looking for help. And
there was no trace of the border committees and, of course, Nehru’s
faithful but useless servant, Krishna Menon.
We have another Krishna who operated from Maurya Sheraton at a cost of
Rs one lakh per day, and he is going about mumbling the same nonsense.
Surely, the least Manmohan Singh can do is get another foreign
minister and send this Maurya Krishna back to wherever he came from!
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