It's a confession of the culpable, a consent of the confused, a contango of the crippled and, above all, a capitulation of the cowardly and chimerical. That about sums up the latest decision of the Vajpayee government on Jammu and Kashmir.

Consider the withdrawal of the cease-fire, oops, "non-initiation of combat operations", announced with élan last year on the occasion of Ramzan Id -- a melodramatic and sentimental sop, really, to the Islamic jihadis in J&K.

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