As a nation, we Indians must be the stupidest suckers on earth. Whenever we are in a tight corner against an adversary, we think only of appeasing him. Excepting the 1971 war waged on East Pakistan and Pokhran II in May 1998, our history is replete with such masochistic submissiveness -- right from forfeiting J&K's fate to the United Nations in 1948 through letting China build a road in Ladakh in 1956 and down to giving free passage to two terrorists holed up in a mosque in Shopian the other day.

With "mush" Musharraf about to visit us for talks, look at the servile 'solutions' to the J&K issue being suggested by the eager beaver intelligentsia. Some have thought of a referendum. Neerja Choudhury, a senior journalist of The Indian Express , suggests that we grant greater autonomy to J&K and accept the Hurriyat's demand that elections in that state be held under international supervision.

rest of the article is at http://www.rediff.com/news/2001/jun/19arvind.htm

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