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Monday, December 30, 2013

Preemptive attack and the power of Weak

Recently I have witnessed an incident while I was travelling by a public transport. There was a verbal duel between two passengers not sure what was the reason but reason per se might be quite an irrelevant item on which we are about to discuss. 

Two actors involved one person visibly weak and the other person reasonably strong, at least that is how they appear. When the duel reached a certain point the stronger one out of frustration slapped the weaker one, it appeared that he could not take it anymore. Then the weaker one just stopped talking. Something interesting ensued thereafter, as the weaker one was about to get down at his bus stop (ie., at his place) he called the big guy and asked sorry for what he has done. That act of asking sorry never appeared genuine at first place; I thought there was more of sarcasm. This stronger guy had some kind of triumphant feeling.

Before the bus could reach next stop the same weaker guy who got down at the previous stop asking apology and all that, brought his friend (a moderately stout guy – in good position to challenge the stronger one who slapped the weaker one earlier). And what happened next is indeed an easy guess, weaker one wanted to avenge.

But quite different happened in the approach the weaker one has taken. The moment these two guys got in to the bus, the weaker one’s friend was seen questioning the stronger one who is already in bus about why he slapped his friend. When they both were talking, taking the benefit of distraction the weaker one slapped the stronger one. Then suddenly I could see the stronger one pushing the weaker one and his friend. In that commotion the weaker one got down and walked away. And the guy who came to support the weaker one had to bear few blows before he could leave. End of the story.

International Relations & Politics

For a very long time this incident has been lingering in my mind and as a student of International Relations and Politics I could not arrest my temptation but to relate this incident to the behavior of nation states. And following questions should guide us in our discussion. And I will try to relate few known issues which are happening around us with this real incident. I shall interchangeably cite the incident mentioned above and few issues in International relations for the purposes of an easy comparison.

  1. How a weak country will react if it was attacked by a stronger one (a reference to weaker one and the stronger one in the above mentioned real incident)?
  2. What happens if a nation state faces flack for supporting its friendly neighbor or another friendly nation state in crisis situation?
  3. What consequences should a strong country take in consideration before it decides to launch a pre-emptive attack on a weaker state?
On Question No.1

If you irritate a mighty super power (stronger one) then you (weaker one) should be ready for consequence/s (weaker one got slapped by the stronger one in the bus) your action generates.
Bin-Laden has been irritating the mighty US for quite some time and for once it retaliated and killed Bin-Laden, that is a consequence for his act of bombing twin towers, pentagon and few other sites in US ie., 9/11 incident.

But then the moment US slapped the weaker one (conventionally & militarily speaking bin laden/Al-Qaida is weaker than US) the scope of conflict expands, Laden’s friends (fellow Jihadis and other terrorist organizations jumped the fray) become a new irritant then the fight goes on and at last after it - US has completely bogged itself down now wants to engage with Taliban to finish the war.

If you don’t have an idea about the consequences your physical attack on other nation state could generate you should not attack. Especially if the other state is a relatively a weaker one the temptation is apparently higher as in the case of Iraq’s invasion and subsequent annexation of Kuwait, but it failed to factor in the consequences – US retaliation (reaction ?). Two equally stronger ones don’t fight or attack each other directly. US v/s Russia and US v/s China. But US intervenes everywhere else in the world in some pretext or the other.

On Question No.2

Before getting carried away by your friend’s call for help and supporting him you should assess whether it is really worth it. In our original incident the guy who came in supporting the weaker one had to bear few blows. Compare this with US invading/attacking Afghanistan, in the beginning all its European allies and allies elsewhere willingly joined the effort and as it turned out to be an endless quagmire everyone started to get out of it.

If you cannot make an unconditional commitment to your friend’s cause then don’t go for it.

On Question No.3

If you don’t have the skill (or resources) to destroy your opponents with least or no damage to yourself just don’t go for a preemptive attack. US attack on Vietnam could be an example. Mighty US was defeated by Vietnam.

If not nations, these suggestions are definitely helpful for those who travel by public transport daily.

Sunday, December 15, 2013

Fighting it out with Tamil ?

When I attempted to Translate this piece from English to Tamil this is how it turns out to be. Thanks to my friend Prabhakar (@prabhakarrk) to help correct (Proof Read indeed) it. Off late I have been spending some time to improve my elementary knowledge on some Indian Classical Languages which Includes Tamil, Telugu and Hindi to some thing better. This is first such an attempt on that quest and here is how I start it by laying my hands on Tamil.






Tuesday, December 10, 2013

The beginning of the End for Congress Party of India

If the recent four state assembly elections are any indication then that means Congress party is headed for a complete burial. The perception of Monumental corruption & Mal-governance are not the only reasons for people’s anger, it is also because of the harassment it meted out to ordinary public (especially urban electorate) on compulsory Aadhar registration, complex bureaucratic hurdles it created in its name and reduction of subsidized cooking cylinders available per year, these are to name a few in addition to price rise and inflation. At least these are the reasons why I would vote against Congress given a chance.

It could have been a heavy jolt for congress which was conveniently banking on Minority & Secular-Communal farce, because all the Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribe concentrated areas voted against congress in Delhi. During the campaign congress did not offer any tangible ideas or solutions on the most begging issues such as price rise and inflation instead it limited itself to parrot the propaganda on Food Security Bill, Right to Education and Right Information Act, this proves that Congress ran out of ideas and is a victim of limited imagination.

The urban voter has shown Congress Party its rightful place in Delhi and also all voters in other three states. Its arrogance was so enormous that it always felt that it can get away with diverting people’s attention by bringing in secular-communal card. Congress wants this country to remain poor forever so that it can dole out few sops and freebies to earn their votes and then power. Hence you could see a standard practice of doling out free schemes on the last year of every tenure. Food Security Bill is an example of such a pattern. After inheriting a stable economy in 2004 from BJP and being in power for 9 years suddenly it woke up a fine morning and decided to go with Food security bill.

Instead of spending its energies on countering the conditions which are forcing the ordinary citizen to endure a sub-standard life under its regime, it chose to concentrate on Narendra Modi and has been working overtime to fix him on something or the other. What Congress has failed to realize was that the platform to challenge Narendra Modi was Gujarat assembly elections in which too Congress squarely lost. Now it must do some justice for which it came to power. The hollow rhetoric of Secularism is not going to save the Congress any more.

Few talked about dual power centers in Congress and also passed a judgment that it is working well. In my opinion it is a completely misplaced argument, there is no diarchy or dual power centers. There is only one power center – Presidentship of congress. And that is why you could hardly see Prime Minister reacting to anything if not for his party’s complete rout in four state assembly elections, after all it is his government’s policies and workings which affects to an extent voter’s decision in choosing a party during elections. But only Sonia Gandhi and her son chose to react on the results. Doesn’t that mean that for all that PM is doing by occupying the highest post he is simply not accountable?

It is important to acknowledge what Kejriwal and Aam Admi party has done in Delhi but the only worry is it should not become yet another leftist party ending up embracing “Distorting India” as its only goal. It is an era of Knowledge Voter and it is not easy to fool him anymore on some abstract ideas & ideologies.

Punditry says that BJP trouncing Congress in 2014 parliamentary elections is almost a sealed matter. But if Congress wants to secure a distant second position it should seriously think about being honest first.

Wednesday, December 4, 2013

Marxism & Islamism: Double Entente in India and sworn enemies elsewhere

Have you ever realized that why acts that have a special relation to Hindus (as a Religion) in India gets a sensational coverage? If a Hindu seer is accused of rape why journalists spend over time in chat shows debating it? Often in the name of upholding justice. Let me caution you right away. If you ask me a question whether if someone happens to be a Hindu he has to condone all these acts? Then my answer is I do not care if he is a priest, baba or Seer whatever. If there is a crime committed, Justice must be done. The crime doer must be punished, of course through a due course of law and with proper regard to the principles of natural justice.

In all these cases there is some kind of link with Hinduism as a religion. When such opportunities arise you shall see the parties which are inclined to Leftist Ideology jumping the bandwagon with all its excitement to do what Marxism preaches to do. I.e., to relieve the masses from religious suffering. But how do you achieve that limited goal so that you can form a classless society? Opportunities such as these will not be missed at all. A Hindu mind is too inconsiderate and rationally ignorant when it comes to reacting to this evil design. I.e., a deliberated and concerted attempt to tarnish the image of Hinduism as a religion.

That is why when creators of M.F.Hussain’s creed paint Naked Hindu goddess and claim that it was their creativity and when protests erupt as a reaction to that they would say Hindu extremists are hounding. He is in a way correct, even with more than 80% of Hindu Cultural majority very few people have reacted for this outrageous act with extreme concern, hence extremists?

What drives all these anti-Hindu forces in India? Some pointers are mentioned herewith.
  • Marxist Ideology
  • Paid Cohorts in Media
  • And Political parties which exploits the Heterogeneity of Hindus
That is why you see abuses were hurled by paid media at Kanchi Sankaracharya who was accused in a murder case including the circulation of wild theories against him. Now what happens after he was acquitted by the court? Will anyone admit apology? I hope not. Because that will be going against Marxist ethos.

Just like the erstwhile Illuminati infiltrated in every institution in their time to counter the oppressive church these leftists are everywhere, bureaucracy, political parties, media houses etc., you name anything they might be just there to perpetuate Marxism, ie., to abolish Hinduism. On the face of it, we might think that religion per se means it should be everything, Hinduism, Islam, Christianity, Buddhism and all that? No it is not. In India the target of Communists is only Hinduism. And there is a wide political patronage for this view simply to remain in power by dividing Hindus with castes, regionalism and on other issues, though these parties may not agree with Marxism as an ideology they are fine with it as long as it is helping them to cling on to power.

Take for example Congress Party - the party of Mahatma Gandhi which ruled India for many years, approx. 60. But why do communal riots still happen? What has it done to improve the communal harmony in this country since the riots of partition?

Organizations such as RSS have come as a beacon in highlighting the atrocities (Current & Historic) committed on Hindus by different constituencies including parties like Congress, and their sense of insecurity in understandable by the rise of Hindu Nationalist – Narendra Modi, it needs no further explanation.

While there is a method in their (Congress & Marxists) madness on why they want divisions in Hindu society to remain perpetually, but it is almost interesting to see how the interests of Islamists and Marxists converge within India as far as their goal is concerned, ie., destruction of Hinduism. While Maoists engage in the people’s war in order to impose a classless society on this country but it is shocking to see how Islamists join them or benefitted by the work done by them. In this regard let’s see what the terrorist a.k.a Marxist Kishenji has said on Islamic terrorism :
The Islamic upsurge should not be opposed as it is basically anti-US and anti-imperialist in nature. We, therefore, want it to grow” 
This explains the whole picture; Marxists want the Jihadis/Islamists to do their work, i.e., fight their ideological enemy – political right. 

Media houses which are guided by the misguided men & women are readily available to do their bidding through their propaganda. And that is why when Muslims engage in riots in Bengal, Assam or Uttar Pradesh and burn Indian National Flag, you will have almost no coverage. Because Marxists & Islamists do not want to see Hindus reacting to what a Muslim is doing?

I have previously too said somewhere that Marxists are very well aware that abolishing Hinduism is a mammoth task and they need some help for which Islamists are more than happy and ready to do it. Once the task of abolishing Hinduism as a religion and culture is over their next task is to deal with Islam which in their opinion is an easy task, it is only in this context why China and Pakistan collaborate though they have two conflicting ideological allegiances and are hell bent in turning India in to one way or the other for Pakistan it is a pious duty to convert it in to sharia and for China it is an Ideological duty. But both want destruction of Hinduism, there are no differences on that flashpoint.

The only way to counter this is to educate Muslims that the leftists are a danger to their religion too. But who will enlighten Muslims?