Finally,
after what seemed like an eternity of four years, Ajmal Kasab, the last
surviving terrorist of the 26 Nov 2008 attack on Mumbai was hanged.
In
the four years that he was incarcerated in Arthur Road jail in Mumbai,
he had become the most infamous figure in the country in recent times.
People were angered by the agonizingly slow trial that went on, the
comic sequence of India submitting proofs to Pakistan and Pakistan
rejecting them as expected, the insane amount of taxpayer’s money spent
in keeping him safe and sound and cosy and the endless wait on the mercy
petition (a fact shocking in itself as he was not an Indian citizen)
sent by his counsel to the President. The frustration at this helpless
situation increased day by day, and it felt Ajmal Kasab was spitting on
India for every subsequent day added to his life , knowing
that he was a part of the squad who ensured that more than a hundred
odd families never feel fulfillment in their lives again.
But as a realistic person, I would like to thank this vile creature.
He
has effectively demolished the myth of India being a superpower. And
its better that we abandon this delusion too for our own good.
A superpower is not a sitting duck for terrorists.
A
superpower does not show apathy in combating threats to its security,
due to excuses like world opinion and hurting religious sentiments.
A
superpower does not mean a society who doesn’t have even the vaguest
idea of national interest nor places national security even in littlest
of its priorities.
A
superpower’s backlash is not like opening a soda bottle, which
generates a little fizz and goes flat in a few seconds. It keeps its
desire for revenge and salvaging pride alive, like embers beneath a
seemingly cold film of ash.
A
superpower doesn’t have “leaders” who are like Alice in Wonderland
where their country’s interests are concerned, who don’t have any desire
to make their country a superpower but merely some pathetic reasons to
call it as one.
USA,
Israel and Russia attack their enemies with missiles, rockets, fighter
planes, helicopters, drones, howitzers, tanks , rifles, blockades,
embargos….
India
attacks its enemies with off spin, leg spin, yorkers, inswingers,
straight drive, square cut, cover drives….Or when they get more serious,
a scathing attack with dossiers is launched.
Countries
like Russia and Israel never negotiate with terrorists. One only has to
read about IDF’ s Entebbe operation (1976) and the way Russia ended the
Moscow theatre siege 2002) or Beslan school siege (2005). India was
made to look like a weakling during the Kandhahar highjacking (1999) and
forced to release Maulana Masood Azhar, who at the time of writing,
continues to wreak havoc.
On
one hand , Navy Seals enter Pakistani territory and gun down Osama Bin
Laden in full view of the world, Israel ruthlessly eliminates
Palestinian terrorists without caring for world opinion. Russia destroys
without mercy all the Chechen terrorists it can, without caring for
hurting anyone’s sentiments as national interest is paramount.
India
on the other hand has to wait for four years to discreetly execute a
brainwashed footsoldier who has been proven guilty long ago and had long
ago outlived his utility and was kept alive for questionable reasons.
And after that the govt portrays itself to have “sent out a strong
message” of destroying terrorism, treating its very delayed elimination
of a small fry, a mere cog in the scary apparatus of global Islamic
terrorism, as the ultimate victory on terror. It is indeed a shamefully
pathetic condition that shows exactly as to why India keeps on becoming
the target of terrorism frequently and why it has stopped invoking any
fear even for Sri Lanka, forget Bangladesh and Pakistan.
Its
very easy to blame the political establishment for this pitiable
condition. The terrorist attack of 26/11/2008 would have been over in a
few minutes had the police had assault rifles and decent Kevlar jackets,
and there would be no need to call the paramilitary or the army. Or in
worst case, a day if there had been NSG hubs near every metro instead of
just being in Manesar. Or had there been leaders in place of just
jokers. That they don’t have a concrete plan to fight terrorism and
don’t even have the willingness to do so, that disaster management in
India only comprises of three words “call the army”.That we don’t even
have the mini versions of Navy Seals, Spetsnaz or even Kidon and hence
we have to call the army for everything because anyone less may it be
police or paramilitary, is too ill equipped to handle such a problem .But this is just the tip of the iceberg.
It is the situation that has risen due to a weak society.
A society made up of of honourless, spineless people are harbor
no feeling of anger or desire for vendetta for the insults heaped on
them. Even if they do get angry, it lasts only a while and they revert
back to the same ways of apathy and bring the same people to power who
were guilty of the pathetic state . A society which cannot rise beyond
selfishness and hence elects fixers in the name of leaders.
A
society made of shamelessly weak creatures who put on a false sense of
optimism or indulge in escapism whenever dangers confront them, who
don’t have the guts to call their enemy and enemy and instead indulge in
war of words and sloganeering, which disappears as soon as some average
wailer (who have to be called as Sufi singers in a politically correct
world) or a cricket team (cash strapped) arrives from across the border.
A
society for which is made of ungrateful people who only remember their
soldiers only when in trouble, of hypocrite armchair intellectuals who
talk of everyone’s interest except that of their own country, who are
more worried about the terrorist’s human rights than that of their
victims, foreign & criminal funded so called news channels whose
coverage helps the enemy more than the country’s defenders and utterly
escapist overrated morons (called artistes/artists in a
politically correct world) who live in ivory towers and are only
interested in Aman ki Asha (which infact is Amanullah screwing the hell
out of Asha).
But
above all, a society which is content in being a crowd of bickering
factions rather than being a nation, a mob into which someone has thrown
a few gold coins and they are all scratching at each other to get those
gold coins, conveniently forgetting that ten thousand Kasab clones are
ever ready across the border, waiting for a good opportunity to spill
rivers of blood again by shooting through this thoughtless mass of
people.
Superpower?
First develop a national character and some self respect. And after
that, think about eliminating the masterminds instead of rejoicing on
killing one of the innumerable rabid dogs. Rest will follow.
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