16 July 2009

Is Manmohan Singing the wrong tune?

India and Pakistan agreed yesterday that terrorism is the main threat
to both countries. Manmohan Singh is satisfied with Yusuf Raza
Gilani's commitment to bring the culprits of 26th to justice, and for
some reason, Singh has gone soft enough to agree not to bracket talks
with Pakistan's action on terror.

Now, our greatest achievement is "agreeing" to keep the "dialogue"
going. Should we congratulate Manmohan Singh? I think not.
Reporters are busy squeaking on CNN IBN that there is a "breakthrough"
in India Pakistan relationships, with the "talks back on track". What
track? A track that led us to the Mumbai terror attacks?

Singh the economist is fast turning out to be a dud when it comes to
being Singh the statesman. Does he just want to look like the good
guy to the world? He is our best option on the economic front, but if
terrorism is indeed our biggest problem, MM Singh is not the best
leader for the job.

The crook Gilani is busy saying that terrorism is not only India's
problem, and that Pakistan is also really bothered by it. Bothered?
I'd say that's the least they should be dealing with after training,
arming, supporting, and growing terrorist groups for so many years!!

Now, is terrorism India's biggest problem? Definitely not. Pakistan
is our biggest irritant, but by no means is terrorism our biggest
problem. It is stupidity. We are stupid enough to have a dialogue
with a country that doesn't deserve as much as a mention in our agenda
for progress. We're treating a failed state like it is a sovereign,
democratic, bonafide nation. Pakistan has vast regions controlled by
militant groups, a military that doesn't have its loyalties to its
government, and a history of being under military rule for 2/3rds of
its period since independence from the British.

Why're we even bothered? What would happen if we took a hawkish
stance on Pakistan, cut off all diplomatic ties, and disagreed with
everything Pakistani leadership suggests? Would anybody in the world
grudge us for doing that? We could start a trade war, really
squeezing all of Pakistan's exports by putting a straight subsidy
system in place wherever any of Pakistan's products are competing with
India's. This will cost us less than all the rubbish expenditures in
Kashmir. It will make our exporters happy and bring in revenues too.

All of Pakistan's exports could be made to suffer and when the matter
comes up in an international forum of any sort we could say, "Heck,
we're able to do nothing about your biggest export - terrorism! So
please, bear with us on this one, will you?" After all, nobody dares
question China's system of subsidizing any of its exports.

We have seen time and time again what terrorists do in a time of
ceasefire. They regroup and come back and hit us harder. That is
what is happening right now, with Pakistan doing absolutely nothing to
curb its terror infrastructure. Zardari recently accepted that
certain groups were encouraged for strategic objectives - a clear and
cold revelation that the Pakistani government is indeed much worse
than we thought it was.

For some reason we seem really happy each time the USA mentions India
without mentioning Pakistan, like we need the USA's sanction for
anything we do or do not do. We're delighted Hilary Clinton isn't
visiting Pakistan on this visit to India. It has taken the USA about
fifty years to realize India and Pakistan aren't the same country, so
congratulations. But are we to ignore the fact that Pakistan is still
getting millions in aid and military hardware from the USA?

We should go a step further and release biological agents into the
waters of the five rivers that flow from India to Pakistan, quietly
create infertility and sperm count drops. The Islamic terror movement
is dependent on numbers. Why not hit it where it really matters? I
mean, what the f**k is stopping us from doing this?

Is Manmohan Singh fit enough to play the roles of statesman and
politician? If he is, he will first realize that there is no point
rationalizing anything with the monkeys across the border. They are a
confused, trigger happy lot, to whom the only clear enemy is for some
reason - India. We do not have to put up with monkeys, so let's shock
them, put them in their place and hope that in the next round of
evolution, they will take a step up and realize they can't screw with
this powerful country who happens to be their neighbour.

If we imagine that the Pakistani political machinery somehow deserves
OUR support in dealing with THEIR terrorism problem, then we are
idiots, undeserving even of a lousy country like ours. We should have
been in some impoverished sub Saharan African craphole. Pakistan's
terrorists were bred by THEM, not US. So, let them get bombed, raped,
pillaged, and ruined. Why are we wasting our resources to help them
do better against a problem THEY created?

Do we need Pakistan? ABSOLUTELY NOT. So, Mr. Singh, what gives?

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