aug 16th, 2010
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From:
Bharata Bharati
India – still burdened with the legacy of Nehru's pretentious atheism and soul-dead leftist fellow travellers – has failed to bridge the self-created chasm with her ancient civilisation. How can we be a world power without civilisational continuity; to what do we aspire? Military power delinked from civilisational purpose will make us Asuras, as demonic and rapacious as the superpower that foisted this second-hand aspiration upon us in the first place. - Sandhya Jain
2 comments:
Bill Buckley always said just as he had to fight the left to establish Conservative meme, he also had to fight the kooks among the American right. It's rather important to consign kooks like Ms Jain to the obscurity they deserve. Her knowledge of statecraft is as lame as Nehru's. China is our great friend and should be our role model? That's for the birds. It reminds me of Nehru ( Ms Jain would not like the comparison) who gave away Tibet and UN security council seat ( Eisenhower offered that to India).
@"Bill Buckley always said just as he had to fight the left to establish Conservative meme, he also had to fight the kooks among the American right."
This comment shows some false equivalences at work. The attempt to derive comfort in a dubious parallel between the nationalist strain in India and the wingnuts of the West is silly. The following, which was written by the pretender in whom the commenter reposes such faith, may disabuse the latter of such fanciful notions. As for Kenya, there lies a horror story that is yet to reach the literati of the world.
"The central question that emerges is whether the White community in the South is entitled to take such measures as are necessary to prevail, politically and culturally, in areas in which it does not predominate numerically? The sobering answer is Yes--the White community is so entitled because, for the time being, it is the advanced race. The question, as far as the White community is concerned, is whether the claims of civilization supersede those of universal suffrage. The British believe they do, and acted accordingly, in Kenya, where the choice was dramatically one between civilization and barbarism, and elsewhere; the South, where the conflict is by no means dramatic, as in Kenya, nevertheless perceives important qualitative differences between its culture and the Negroes', and intends to assert its own. National Review believes that the South's premises are correctThe great majority of the Negroes of the South who do not vote do not care to vote, and would not know for what to vote if they could.Universal suffrage is not the beginning of wisdom or the beginning of freedomThe South confronts one grave moral challenge. It must not exploit the fact of Negro backwardness to preserve the Negro as a servile class. It is tempting and convenient to block the progress of a minority whose services, as menials, are economically useful. Let the South never permit itself to do this. So long as it is merely asserting the right to impose superior mores for whatever period it takes to effect a genuine cultural equality between the races, and so long as it does so by humane and charitable means, the South is in step with civilization, as is the Congress that permits it to function."
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