Mumbai Massacre: How to lose high moral ground?

Mumbai Massacre: How to lose high moral ground?

More than 100 days have passed since roughly 200 Indians, who were minding their business, were ruthlessly gunned down by Pakistani terrorists who hatched and executed their hideous plot on Pakistani soil with the explicit support of Lashkar-e-Taiba and the rogue “intelligence” agency, the ISI. While the loved ones of the dead mourn their loss, the Indian government sits on hands offering empty promises of action and Laskhar-e-Taiba possibly plans another attack on the Indian soul.

We have made our opinion very clear on the weak kneed stewardship of the elected officials of India. They lack, in our very public opinion, the intestinal fortitude to take actions that are necessary to provide security to the great nation of ours. There are several reasons for it, none of them justifiable: greed, corruption, moral ambivalence, indifference to our aspirations, disinterest towards our security, and“non-violence.” We call it cowardice.

We might be called pessimistic but we do not see anything good coming out of the Pakistani investigation which is being conducted by the same group of people whose only goal in life is to create trouble for India since our independence, both from the British empire and the shackles of mugal oppression in 1947, the remnants of this mugal thinking are festering in Pakistan. All its supporters want is to foment trouble in the progressive India which is obviously rising from long predominant hibernation with Pakistan, a 4th world country.

What makes us even sadder is the fact that the India diplomats have now lost the high moral ground by taking to responding to Pakistan’s request for more information. Instead of accusing Pakistan of supporting terrorism and asking it to prove its innocence we are now reduced to answering Pakistan’s questions. In effect, the abettor has now become the judge and the victim is now being asked to provide evidence against the abettor. Instead of calling Pakistan on its bluff, we are now begging Pakistan to do something about terrorism. No wonder Mr. Gilani says that he is now responsible for security of two countries: India and Pakistan. The insult is obvious to everyone but to our somnolent politicians. This would be laughable if it wasn’t a reflection on the ineptitude of the fossilized minds of our elected officials.

We have only one question for Manmohan Singh, Pranab Mukherjee and their coterie of mental midgets: How long are they planning for this farce to continue before they take any action to secure our nation?

“ Peace without strength is a dream.”

Martand Pandey is one of our editorial page writers. Write to him atMartand.Pandey@indopia.com