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Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Italian Marine Case: India The Soft. India The Gullible.

It seems like it is an open season on Indians. Soldiers beheaded. Killer blast in Hyderabad. Got sucker punched by Italy. Terrorist attack on our CRPF boys. All this happened just this year. A business quarter is not even over. We are like the proverbial lamb, ready to be fleeced and then slaughtered.

This kind of thing does not happen to China. This is despite of the fact that they are also considered lesser people (non-white and non-Christians) like us by West and Muslims. They have translated their new found economic might into a protective weapon of sorts. Moreover, they are ruthless pragmatic and cunning people. No one messes with them. They shot down an American spy plane and made the US apologize in the Hainan Island episode. They are determined not to repeat history.

While we do not have the same economic might as the Chinese, we are no slouch in that department. We have a money to spend, services to provide and we are a democracy which gives us righteous footing in the international stage. And yet we are completely helpless.

Pragmatism says that we need to strengthen Sheikh Hasina in Bangladesh by helping her out with water and other issues. But we cannot because Mamata Bannerjee is opposed to it. Pragmatism says that we side with the Sri Lankan government against UN resolution (the Chinese are waiting to fill in the vacuum there which will surround us) but Jayalalitha is opposed to it. Pragmatism says that we formulate a hard-nosed strategic foreign policy vis a vis Pakistan. However, to appease Indian Muslims and liberals, our policy is one of hope and well, I don’t really know. This is what happens when people place selfish interests before that of the nation. In that sense I don’t think that we are patriotic at all.

Atalji’s government capitulated to the British pressure and released the Brit guilty of the Purulia arms drop. What pressure can the British apply? These bastards are trying to sell their wares to us. We should be holding all the cards and yet we kneeled. Then there was the Kandahar case where bureaucratic turf war ruined BJP’s credentials for ever. Just today, someone compared the Italian Marines escape to UPA’s Kandahar, ignoring the fact that no Indian lives are at stake in this shameful episode.

As weak as the BJP government was, the UPA really has outdone all their predecessors. Not only do we look like helpless cowards, given to hollow talks but we also look like gullible fools. We let Union Carbide chief walk out of India. We let Quattrocci leave the country and if that were not bad enough, unfroze his bank accounts. We let the French fool us in a case similar to the Italian marine case. And now we have the Italians take us for a long ride. If Manmohan Singh has a Dodo sized egg on his face then it is his own doing. Do you think that the Chinese would have let those marines stay at a nice cottage like we did? If that were not bad enough, they were allowed to go home for Christmas. Now we have the Supreme Court (headed by a man who is a Congress faithful) allowing these guys to leave the country on a promise by the Italian government, the kind that was headed by a debauched pervert like Silvio Burlesconi. Only a gullible fool would trust the Italians. Have we learned anything from history? The Europeans are white and Christians. They have gotten fat by robbing people like us. They consider us lesser people. They may have succeeded in masking their revulsion for us under the guise of civility and colonial guilt but make no mistake – every action of theirs reveals their true colors.

I have a solution to this problem. Let us all convert to Islam. Then the Pakistanis will not attack and hurt us. If we become Sunnis then we will get cheap oil and backing from the Saudis. Don’t like that idea? How about converting to Christianity? That way, we will get the backing of Pope and the religious lobby in Europe and the US. Don’t like that either? Then we have very limited choices. Rejection of fractured regional politics, Hindu unity and election of a leader who can say more than "theek hai" in times of need, are some of the preliminary steps. Don’t like that either? Then be ready to be fleeced and killed. You can be a lamb or you can be a lion. It is that simple.

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