Saturday, September 29, 2007

'Jerry' Rao on Pakistan

http://www.indianexpress.com/story/222273._.html
Jerry (an otherwise excellent and incisive commentator) must have been a little drunk when he wrote this. Here are a few gaps in the Jerry Utalitarian Theory of Pakistan's existence to India (aka the buffer state)

1- The alleged powers we need buffering against (Iran and Afghanistan) are powers no more. It is laughable to think that an Afghan or Persian can raid India as in the days of Abdali & Nadir Shah

2- The power we do need buffers from - China - has used Pakistan to bleed India

3- The concept of a rational, buffer state that has passably good relations with us appeals to a rational entity - which Pakistan is eminently not

4- India has galloped forward from British inherited institutions of a liberal democracy, judiciary etc. - Pakistan as regressed. Indeed as Naipaul observed that due to it's Islamic yearning Pakistan has slowly undone the admitedly little good that British rule did. In fact they see themselves as the rightful inheritors of Abdali & Nadir Shah - only without the actual military might to take on India head-on in battle. Hence the use of terror

5- Pakistan breaking up will be a mighty mighty good thing (though I doubt this will happen - thanks to the Yanks) - and here is why.
-Afghanistan will be a logically rationalised, friendly state with the inclusion of the NWFP (now thats a buffer) - and we can use them to balance our regional power with Iran.
- Iran will most likely swallow the Baluch territories and have to deal with any insurrections there
- China will loose its best anti-India client and only non-Indian Ocean based route to middle-east energy - the Gwadar port. That opens up Iranian energy to us - and we can play them off against the Yanks who have not foothold in the region after their favorite client state is whipped
- The radicals etc. of Punjab state in Paksitan will at last have their land to lord over without others getting hurt in the process.

8 comments:

hUmDiNgEr said...

This Jerry Rao is a Macaulyite like any other sicular guys. I dont know why you are analysing his rubbish.

Wildcat said...

I think everyone is looking in the wrong direction. Sure, the Chinese do not want to lose their Gwadar port, from where they can menace the oil traffic from Arabia. The chances are rather faint right now of this happening. Anyway, the Gwadar port isn't exactly functional yet, is it? The real and immediate threat to China is developing in their colony of Burma (or Myanmar, whatever). Yes, Burma is very much a Chinese colony run by a bunch of well paid quislings. The Burmese public seems to have got pretty fed up of existing scheme of things and are rising up. The Chinese will do their damnedest to not lose their sea ports in Burma from where they have till now dominated the vital Malacca straits. Besides losing the resources of Burma (gas, oil, timber) which they have been milking so far. We may well be seeing the start of world war 3 in our own backyard.

habc said...

sudarshan - agree about gwadar - we can and will balance with charbahar.
but WW 3 without Islam not possible.

I agree with "Jerry" conceptually - but I disagree on the details. We do need a buffer - but the buffer must be a rump Pakjabi and a rump PakSindhi state which will stand between us and the 'tribals'.

Personally I think a Pushtunistan and a Balochistan along with a Kurdistan would be very good things to happen from an Infidel point of view (Smaller Islamic countries are less dangerous to their neighbours). It would also stabilize the polity in Afghanistan since then the Tajiks and Uzbeks and Turkmens can gladly rejoin their mother ships. (although afghan nationalists will not like it).

As far as India is concerned we need to build a HADRIANS WALL on ALL OF OUR LAND BORDERS. If necessary use all of the stupid 'yojana' monies to build this wall ASAP.

habc said...

STOP THE PRESSES, RSS agent went to space. cancel the visa quick

'Proud to be from an RSS family'-Sunitha Williams

"When I landed up in Naval academy I had to adjust to military discipline. The RSS culture of discipline in our family came in handy for me at that stage since my father had been associated with the RSS."

Unknown said...

Turning hypocrisy into religion huh, this coming from a person whose religion is hypocrisy. On the other hand I think the blog authors have learnt from the Christians how to talk through both sides of the mouth at the same time. Christians are experts at this. Before asking Sunita Williams to go back to the US, first ask that white Christian b*tch Gail Omvedt to go back to the US. This Christist b*tch talks about casteism in India, whereas racism in Christian USA is far worse.
And yes Limeys and other White Christians are despicable but Francois Gautier is good because he supports us and our cause. Is that so difficult to understand.

And BTW, Sonia Maino can become PM of Hindu-Majority India when an Indian Hindu immigrant becomes the president of Britain or the US any other Christian majority country.

kp11 said...

christian go and see a mirror , you will see a two-tongued poisonous snake.Foul mouthed villains like you are the biggest enemies of your own creed

poisonous snakes like you, which roam freely in society need to be crushed to keep others safe, exactly the kind of treatment slithering, creatures of the dark like you deserve.

barking like a mad jackal day in and day in here will not convince anybody, go back to ur hole and dont show ur reptilian face here, you sad creature

siva said...

Ghost Writer said >>> Pakistan breaking up will be a mighty mighty good thing (though I doubt this will happen - thanks to the Yanks)

I think the other way round. Pakistan will break up in next few years considering the Baloch unrest, NWFP mullahs getting crazier by the day, Sindis not very happy with the Punjabis etc. But this necessarily need not be a good news, just look at Bangladesh, the country we helped get Independence but Mohammedans being Mohammedans they are stabbing us in the back by becoming another terror exporter to India.

karyakarta92 said...

'Proud to be from an RSS family'-Sunitha Williams

Yes, apparently - her father
Dr. Deepak Pandya is a cousin of the late Haren Pandya, BJP minister in Gujarat, who was assassinated by Muslim terrorists.

In another statement, she said she would be happy to be part of an Indian space mission. My immediate thought was - would the Indian dhimmis allow her to take Lord Ganesha and the Shrimad Bhagwat Gita to space as NASA did? Or would they insist on some obnoxious Ishwar Allah B.S?