War With Pakistan

The signs are ominous and people are getting to see some serious military manoeuvres occurring on either side of the border. As a patriotic Indian, I think now is the time to seriously show to the world we are not going to look back and shed copious tears over the dead innocent but are actually going to go all way to ensure that this evil Pakistan state is wiped off from the face of the planet. As in the Hollywood tradition of superhero movies, we are witnessing a battle between evil and good. It is the time for us to choose whether we really want to stand as mute witnesses and watch our brothers and sisters fall prey to the assassins of India's character. Such outrage should never be allowed to perpetrate on Indian soil and it becomes our solemn duty to wage war against this shaitan - the ugly face of evil. We must believe that it is our duty to protect and secure our borders, our people and our nation from the faceless, masked and ultimately reprehensible mind that operates with impunity across the border.

The title of this post is also a play on words - the topic itself exhorting our impotent Indian state to finally wake up to the reality that we have to fight this battle alone - to the death and winning this war would require sacrifices doubtless. In these charged times, it is easy to lose focus and pander to the pacifist, weak-kneed "love and peace" brigade and appear to comply with all those useless and pathetically inept United Nations Resolutions which are nothing more than eye-candy for the United States and its cronies to appear the do-gooders. Also, it is an important guarantee for the U.S. to prevent Pakistan's attention from diverting its attention with its unofficial war with Afghanistan in the north. And the wily U.S. is only too uncomfortably aware of it. Pakistan's policy of "bleeding India with a thousand cuts" has indeed paid rich dividends ever since the Partition, what with every terrorist attack in Kashmir being internationalized and India unwittingly playing into Pakistan's hands by even debating an issue like this in the U.N. - something which Pakistan looks forward to with glee because it would enable its bureaucrats to bring the Kashmir issue under international spotlight.

We have paid dearly for our impotent and miserably incompetent leader's follies and have been at the receiving end from our politicians and Pakistan's terrorist operatives. Picture Jaswant Singh escorting the three terrorists to Kandahar and bringing back the Indian Airlines passengers to a great homecoming reception. Boy, how proud we must be of Jaswant Singh! I daresay that it is his government's disgusting capitulation at the demands of the terrorist jihadis that has emboldened the enemy across the border and led them into attempting greater deeds of outrage with each passing year. But the water has flown over the bridge now and the people have spoken and our army and leaders must act. The time is now and there has never been a better or worse time. A low-intensity, high-precision surgical strike in areas where terrorist camps are located in Pakistan soil should be bombed and its organizers - be they ISI commanders or mercenaries, should be put to death with utmost lethal vengeance.

India need not kowtow to the U.S., U.K. or the great communist threat looming from across the border - the Great Dragon, China. Ultimately India needs to act and act really fast in its own self-interest and show the world that we would not sit back and weep silently in shocked silence. Never has there been a greater sense of urgency than now, never has the enemy attained seriously large dimensions as now, never have the people risen together in dignified but a real sense of outrage and horror at the sheer audacity of the terrorist mind and the cringingly ineffectual response of the Indian leadership. It would be a joke and a farce weren't it also mind-numbingly tragic and positively heart-breaking.

India needs to wake up, every Indian citizen must try hard to not forget the various outrages perpetrated on Indian soil by its enemies - and curiously those that belong to the so-called religion of peace. There would not be an India to speak of if the state of Pakistan was allowed to have its way in the international community by dangling the Afghanistan carrot. The sooner we realize this and act decisively and with single-minded vengeance, the better it would be for a country that has suffered far too many evil acts committed only because we still have not forgotten that Mahatma Gandhi is the Father of the Nation and we owe it to him to protect and enrich the philosophy of ahimsa and satyagraha. But enough is enough! This is the shriek heard in every nook and corner of the country that cares enough about the future of its children. Let's redeem our souls and our collective conscience by taking this battle - started by the malevolent enemy, to its logical conclusion.

In the Ramayana, Lord Rama has just that moment of self-doubt before attacking the demon king of Lanka, but the warrior prince is reminded of the evil demon king's many atrocities and his will is strengthened and the face of evil is vanquished ultimately. We are at a similar stage now - the actors are different but the result would be only one - triumph of good over evil. And Pakistan would exist no more...