Whether the nation is celebrating or not, our rulers are certainly gloating over the fact that the face-off with China is over and the 'Chinese have decided to pull back and dismantle the tents' they had set up in our territory and so will we. They are also claiming that our 'hard stance' paid off and that now our External Affairs minister, Salman Khurshid, would make his planned trip to China and also paves way for the Chinese premier's maiden visit to India.
From all available sources of information, the Chinese first insisted that we dismantle some of the security apparatus we have erected in OUR territory FIRST before they even contemplate moving back. And our exalted government agreed on a face-saver, saying the disengagement has to be simultaneous and both sides pull back together.
Do you see a huge disconnect here? We have always been told that the Chinese have intruded 19km into our territory and it involved a total of around 750 sq km of our land in Ladakh. If that be the case, dear government, why are WE pulling back? They intruded into our territory and have to go back, where does the question of us pulling back arise? How does India withdraw from India? Could you please answer that?
We know how the Chinese are infinitely superior to us in almost every way, save our obvious advantage in being a democracy, which too a lot of us have started doubting now. Even militarily, they have geographic, strategic and material advantage over our forces, as has been documented time and again. It is not that our forces are a paragon of discipline and all else now as they once were, for the general dipping standards have affected them too, but it is still far smarter and more capable than those who control them from Delhi, especially the exalted bureaucrats and their political masters. But the rulers can never accept or admit that.
At times such as these, the forces need to be strengthened and given the support that yes, they matter and mean the world to us. But doubt if that can be done by a government that is crippled with a cupboard of scandals that refuses to empty out. With their own survival at stake, it is natural that worrying about our land or our forces' morale is low on their list if priority.
But despite that, one would still want to know how India withdrew from its own territory?
From all available sources of information, the Chinese first insisted that we dismantle some of the security apparatus we have erected in OUR territory FIRST before they even contemplate moving back. And our exalted government agreed on a face-saver, saying the disengagement has to be simultaneous and both sides pull back together.
Do you see a huge disconnect here? We have always been told that the Chinese have intruded 19km into our territory and it involved a total of around 750 sq km of our land in Ladakh. If that be the case, dear government, why are WE pulling back? They intruded into our territory and have to go back, where does the question of us pulling back arise? How does India withdraw from India? Could you please answer that?
We know how the Chinese are infinitely superior to us in almost every way, save our obvious advantage in being a democracy, which too a lot of us have started doubting now. Even militarily, they have geographic, strategic and material advantage over our forces, as has been documented time and again. It is not that our forces are a paragon of discipline and all else now as they once were, for the general dipping standards have affected them too, but it is still far smarter and more capable than those who control them from Delhi, especially the exalted bureaucrats and their political masters. But the rulers can never accept or admit that.
At times such as these, the forces need to be strengthened and given the support that yes, they matter and mean the world to us. But doubt if that can be done by a government that is crippled with a cupboard of scandals that refuses to empty out. With their own survival at stake, it is natural that worrying about our land or our forces' morale is low on their list if priority.
But despite that, one would still want to know how India withdrew from its own territory?
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