despite all the brave talk, now that the yanks are putting pressure on india to stand down, manmohan singh is withdrawing from afghanistan, conceding pakistan its strategic depth.
yup, the UPA is extremely valorous.
as shakespeare said, 'cowards may die many times before their deaths, the valiant never taste of death but once'.
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From: vijay
From: vijay
Seems like we are even worse than the amrikans at the speed at which we cut and run. If we are not interested in helping rebuild Afghanistan and we are not interested in helping secure Afghanistan, then what exactly are we doing there. Congressi government is more interested in short term negitive publicity of Indian deaths rather than long term strategic importance of having a sizeable Indian presence in Afghanistan.
See the chain of events starting 3 months agi with the TOI Aman ki Asha thing. Nothing but an attempt to mold public opinion. Then came the unilateral announcement of talks, a huge climb down from the earlier position. Next came the failure of talks followed by repeat offer rfm Indianside to meet in Pakistan. The Afghanistan blast happened (how come the huge R&AW presence did not detect it prior to happening? or were we intentionally misled by our Amrikaan friends?) 9 Indians killed, attackers asked for Indians specifically but Holbrooke asks people not to make such connections. Now NSa Menon wants to start scaling down.
I think we are the closest we have ever come to being a banana republic. Not yet there, but very very close. Next thing might be amrikan bases on our eastern coast.
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