Lions
routinely kill and eat wild buffaloes in Africa and the Gir sanctuary.
Lionesses who do the actual killing generally weigh 500 lbs. or less and
have sharp claws and teeth. Wild buffaloes live in herds, weigh 1500
lbs. or more and have sturdy sharp horns. When the lionesses attack, the
buffalo herd often stampedes and occasionally turns around threatening
to gore a lioness. The lionesses pick on weak stragglers or small
calves. If the herd were to “circle the wagons” (literally san+graam=
sangraam) and form a defensive perimeter with calves in the center
and menacing horns outwards facing the lions, the predators would be
stalemated.
There are two
major reasons why the buffalo herd fails to adapt a winning strategy.
First they do not have the ability for foresight and planning and are
unable to co-operate for mutual defense and run to save themselves.
Benjamin
Franklin is said to have put it very nicely during the American war of
independence in the words, “Let us all hang together otherwise we will
be surely hanged separately”. This is a pertinent historical lesson that
India and Indians have still not learnt. Churchill and the British were
partially right in saying that the idea of an Indian nationhood had not
developed in India until after British rule. This is why Muslim
conquerors dominated India for a millennium and the Europeans for two
centuries.
The second
reason why the buffalo herd does not adopt a winning strategy is its
diet of grass requires nearly constant feeding during waking hours,
because of its poor nutritive value and large requirements. A stalemate
with lions who can do with one or two meals per week would starve the
buffalo herd by time constraints while the lions persisted in their
siege for hours. This is also the second weakness of India and Indians.
A long history of colonial exploitation and plunder has left the country
and its citizens poor and insecure. No loud chants of the Gita,
Hindutva, Koran or Bible can disperse the pervasive stink of corruption
in the entire nation.
Thus the poor Indians are more interested in a square meal than the
future of their country or children (sending them to school to improve
future prospects) and the educated are willing to sell naval secrets for
money and a green card, while the rich in their greed only want to
out-compete their peers in conspicuous consumption and are ever willing
to bribe the politicians and bureaucrats with even greater lust for
power, fame and wealth. The triumph of Mayawati and her BSP with her
fortune growing from twelve to fifty-two crores is not a triumph of
democracy or defeat of caste politics, but an equal opportunity effort
by all castes of greedy pigs to unite to feed at the public trough. The
transfer of government servants is a ploy used by ministers and
bureaucrats to extract bribes, punish dissidents or reward sycophants.
Even today in India some older poor people express their nostalgic
desire for the British Raj for its law, order and lack of corruption,
just as many Afghans now yearn for the Taliban era and Iraqis for
Saddam, despite their cruelty, nepotism, discriminatory justice,
intimidating practices and national impoverishment. We know from the
Mitrokhin archives, CIA crown jewels, jeep, Bofors, coffin and other
scandals, that our elected leaders, secretary level bureaucrats and
highest defense personnel have sold the nation for monetary rewards and
industrialists have procured monopolies in chemicals, textiles and
communications by covertly funding political parties.
Left leaning and religious zealotry imbued historians have abdicated
personal integrity and decency by whitewashing even our national history
to the same or greater degree than the imperial colonizers. Who knows
what hidden motives or bribes are responsible for the shameful arm
twisting of our nuclear scientists to force them to promote a
humiliating civilian nuclear deal meant to emasculate the country and
make it an impotent client state without an independent foreign policy
or nuclear deterrent? The ridiculous statements of Condoleeza Rice
saying that non-alignment is passe when the US is engaged in illegal and
immoral wars and occupation, accusing China and Russia of re-arming
while NATO extends its tentacles to Afghanistan reveals her lying and
hubris. Our press and television media are supine promoters and
amplifying megaphones of the agenda of our crooked politicians as they
are owned by our corrupt money hungry industrialists.
It is this selfish greed and power of our former kings and the passive
indifference of our people that allowed Mohammed Ghazni to carry out
repeated and frequent raids from Ghazni to Somnath into a thousand miles
of Indian territory without successful opposition in an era when he had
no planes, cannons or nukes and had to depend on local plunder for
logistics and food. The same linguistic and ethnic fissiparous
tendencies have led to more recent insurgencies in Kashmir, Punjab,
Assam, the northeastern states, Bihar, Jharkhand, Chattisgarh, Orissa
and Andhra Pradesh. In 1568 the protestant Netherlands were ruled by
catholic Spain and the Spanish empire in Europe was divided like the old
East and West Pakistan. The Dutch successfully rebelled and gained their
independence. Around the same era the Indian Rajputs collaborated with
Akbar and gave Jodhabai as his bride to consolidate shaky Mughal rule in
India.
There was a minimal awakening of political consciousness a hundred years
later when Shivaji challenged the Mughal empire but the Marathas could
not sustain themselves more than a hundred years and after the other
battle of Panipat fractured them into competing smaller kingdoms some of
which co-operated with the British and the rest like Holkar of Indore
and Scindia of Gwalior were figuratively hanged separately. Contrast
that with the constant insurgency that plagued Napoleon’s conquest and
occupation of Spain in the same era. The mutiny of 1857 failed because
the Sikhs and some Hindus and Muslims remained loyal to the British. The
former were having their revenge for the Hindu and Muslim troops under
the British who had helped to defeat the independent Sikh kingdom after
Ranjit Singh and the latter followed the spineless Indian instinct of
being servants of the Sahibs.
The credit for a united and awakened political consciousness in India
goes to Gandhi inspired by Gokhale and the revolutionaries of Bengal.
Even today there is a Gurkha regiment in the British army in which
Nepalis enlist for money even though they get less pay than the British
whites, are not allowed to settle in Britain when they retire from their
contract of indentured servitude and are not entitled to the same
pension and health benefits as the British soldiers. “Bubhukshitam kim
na karoti papam” (What sin will a hungry person not commit? One should
remember that hunger is not always for food or of the stomach, it can be
of the heart and mind too).
It is the passive nature of Hinduism with the sword of Damocles hanging
over the heads of the poor and miserable that has allowed exploitation
on the basis of caste, money and religion. It was for this reason that
education of the masses was actively discouraged. The theodicy of
explaining a person’s current misery by the sins of past birth and
threatening rebirth as a cockroach living in gutters if any rebellion is
attempted to redress the present injustice, kept people in line and let
them die in famines engineered by the neglect of British rulers. No
thinking or educated person will long fall for such baloney when he
knows that nobody returns after death. This rebirth theory was so
important for preserving social order that even rebellious Buddhism did
not reject it and Buddha’s followers after his death wrote up a tome of
Jatak Kathas to continue the Hindu tradition of sages and divine persons
who knew and could recall their past births..
With modern times, education and information, it is leading to Naxalite
and Maoist insurgencies. An educated and thinking person is unlikely to
silently acquiesce to his own demise without a whimper of protest. The
poorhouses of medieval Europe were not established as much for charity
as for preventing the revolutions by the have-nots. The French, Russian,
Chinese and to some extent the Iranian revolution were due to severe
deprivation of the masses with cruel and oppressive punishment of them
by the powerful oligarchies. There is a significant component of the
same drama in the rise to power of the Hizbollah in Lebanon, Hamas in
Palestine. It is the foolish policy of the West from previous
imperialists like Britain and France and the newest hegemon America
which have been a fertile medium for the growth of malignant Islamic
terrorism like Al Qaeeda. It was America that midwifed its birth and wet
nursed it to become a threatening monster pandemic.
The personality of an individual depends on his genes (nature) and
environment (nurture). The Abrahamic religions of Judaism, Christianity
and Islam have always been extremely intolerant and narrow minded
because of their false arrogant certitude. The Old Testament is rife
with sanctioned unethical behavior by the jealous, vengeful and
tyrannical Jewish God. Christianity with its crusades and the pretext of
a civilizing and Christianizing mission has been used for colonial
exploitation, slavery and genocide for the last half millennium in
Africa, Asia, Australia and all of the Americas. Currently the west has
turned away from religion and accepted Darwinism with the exception of
ignorant America, the land of yahoos. Islam, a mishmash of Judaism, bits
of Christianity and a lot of whimsies of its illiterate founder did have
a few important good points, mandated charity, equality of all Muslims
and the promotion of an Islamic Ummah but retained polygamy, violence
for spreading, even more intolerance and apostasy.
This is why the Afghans could not be truly subjugated by the British
after three wars and the Iraqis who had tolerated Turkish rule for
centuries under Dar-ul-Islam rebelled in 1920 against the Dar-ul-Harb of
the British and caused huge casualties of British officers and their
slavish Indian troops. The insurgencies in those two countries plague
the occupiers even today. The shortsighted idiotic policies of America
due to the severe childhood psychological trauma suffered by President
Carter’s national security adviser Brzezinski during his childhood in
Poland under Soviet occupation, led him to entice the Soviets into
invading Afghanistan to make it their Vietnam and contribute to the
demise of the Soviet Union. In doing this Carter and Reagan promoted the
genetic quality of the Islamic Ummah by allowing it to suckle at their
large financial bosoms and promoted the growth of the Enfant Terrible.
The blowback was when the now grown viper stung the US in Aden, Kenya,
Tanzania and on 9-11.
What the prophet and the subsequent Caliphs failed to do (uniting the
Ummah), America with its foolish blunders succeeded in doing by
activating the transcription and translation of the dormant repressed
Ummah gene in Muslims worldwide. Just as the US had suckered the Soviets
into invading Afghanistan, Bin Laden suckered the US into invading
Afghanistan, Iraq and now Somalia and in future Iran. The gene will be
without any control and turn into a malignant metastatic cancer to
weaken the entire West. Another foolishness by western intelligence is
the undue emphasis on the importance of the brainwashed, ignorant and
unsophisticated madrassah students (Taliban). They may constitute the
cannon fodder for insurgents and suicide bombers in Afghanistan and
Iraq, but are no terror threat in the west, which really needs to worry
about the educated and more sophisticated Muslims domestic and
worldwide, who were responsible for the attacks in London, Madrid,
Glasgow, Delhi and the beheading of Daniel Pearl. It is this coterie of
educated and professional Muslims often living in the west, who have
been so thoroughly antagonized by the invasions and exploitation of
Muslims and their lands, and are a serious cause for worry because of
their EU and US passports and sophistication and access to terrorist
manuals.
The nineteen hijackers of 9-11 and London bombers were neither poor nor
uneducated. Some of them were married and had a child but none of these
prevented them from courting death to harm their co-residents in the US
or fellow citizens in UK. This reveals the extent of their hatred and
alienation and the strength of their affiliation to the Ummah. The same
problem should be glaringly obvious to India with the involvement of
professional Muslims in domestic terrorism and now Indian engineers and
doctors living in western countries, incensed by the oppression of their
Muslim Ummah members in Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine. Their grievance
has transcended the nation of India and become unified with the Ummah to
such an extent that despite no connections to the invaded lands they are
willing to commit terror in the western country they live and prosper
in. This is a distinctly new and more dangerous battlefront that they
have opened and is likely to worsen if the insane, inane and
self-destructive policies of Bush, Blair and their coalition is not
checked and corrected by wise statesmen in the west. Idiot Bush and the
single ruling Republimocrats party who have dreams of empire and lust
for power for which they have sold their souls and brains in a Faustian
bargain, sacrifice young Americans, bankrupt the country and keep giving
money to Pakistan which funds the terrorists.
Ostentatious flouting of a closer public embrace of America by the
Indian leadership with total disregard for the demography of its own
population and neighborhood, energy dependency and the possible change
in leadership of unstable Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Jordan and
the large Indian diaspora in the Gulf countries responsible for huge
remittance of foreign exchange, is equally indicative of their
ignorance, idiocy, intellectual and strategic bankruptcy or
susceptibility to be bought.
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Lions
routinely kill and eat wild buffaloes in Africa and the Gir sanctuary.
Lionesses who do the actual killing generally weigh 500 lbs. or less and
have sharp claws and teeth. Wild buffaloes live in herds, weigh 1500
lbs. or more and have sturdy sharp horns. When the lionesses attack, the
buffalo herd often stampedes and occasionally turns around threatening
to gore a lioness. The lionesses pick on weak stragglers or small
calves. If the herd were to “circle the wagons” (literally san+graam=
sangraam) and form a defensive perimeter with calves in the center
and menacing horns outwards facing the lions, the predators would be
stalemated. 