On Thursday 11 Jun 2009 5:30:28 pm Indrajit Gupta wrote: > I've just come out of a very bad discussion on PakTeaHouse where the sheer > rascality of the leadership of both India and Pakistan was on full display. > > How can any nation - and I include Bangladesh in this - survive such > villainous leadership? > > Are we specially vile? Are other leaders the same?
IG "good leadership" like genius appears only infrequently and at random. If systems of government depended solely on "good leadership" then we will have to wait forever for "Ram rajya" Goverments work (efficiently or less efficiently) on the systems that are set up to maintain governance in spite of poor leadership. In India the constitution, the bureaucracy, judiciary and other arms of government hev been designed for exactly thsi purpose. India and Pakistan are similar only to an extent, and it is a Pakistan RAPE characteistic (RAPE= Rich Anglophone Pakistani Elite) to hide Pakistan's numerous problems unde the hijab of "Oh India and Pakistan are the same" No sir. That is a specious comparison. India and Pakistan are "the same" only insofar as Pakistanis are cowdung worshippers. Pakistan has had 3 different constitutions since 1947. Even the latest was raped by Musharraf. The military in Pakistan stopped being subservient to civilian authority ever since Liaqat Ali Khan invited the Army to govern. Bad as it may seem, India has a system of governance in place to absorb the impact of bad leadership, just like the US has a system in place to absorb the impact of Dubya. Pakistan on the other hand has mutated with almost every bad leader. Ayub Khan was known as a good leader. He was, IIRC the man who said "One Pkaistani soldier is equal to 6 Indian soldiers" and "If you hit a Hindu har at the right time and place, he will run". He got himself into a debilitating war in 1965 and hi rule ended there. Yahya Khan along with Bhutto lost East Pakistan and neither were held accountable. (india was blamed, as ususal). Zia ul Haq started the process of Islamization that is now bearing fruit in Pakistan's NWFP and FATA. But yet, you go on "PakTeaHouse" and then come on here and ask "Oh! Tarnation! Aren't we (IndiaPakistanBangladesh) all the same?" No IG we are not. We (India) are bad, but we are not Pakistanbad. And Pakistanis know fully well how they are not bad like India. shiv shiv
