On Wednesday 20 Aug 2008 8:27:43 am Balaji Dutt wrote: > To me atleast, there is a simpler truth underlying the political > establishment's stance on Kashmir - "you give up land, you give up safety". > IMO, it's why no expense was spared in fighting Khalistan but the Naxalites > are ignored, and why Aksai Chin doesn't matter but Kashmir does.
Valid observations that gel perfectly well with what i believe is the Indian psyche. I do not foresee any let up in India's defence spending. Too many Indians inside and outside India's corridors of power are unmoved by what they perceive as naive arguments from former colonial powers and existing military and nuclear powers that "disarmament" of some sort is a good prescription for India and Pakistan, and that if a recalcitrant India were to reduce defence spending it would have the magical effect of making Pakistan do the same, and help India's starving millions and somehow improve the lot of India's untouchables. From an Indian viewpoint this is a laughably naive argument coming from the sources that usually make these arguments. To speak in Indianese - i would ask people "to eschew such egregious prescriptions sourced from nations whose histories are peppered with the very sins of which India is being accused" :D shiv
