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Idiot Leaders Cause Demise Of Nations
by
Gaurang Bhatt, MD
A millennium of Indian history is testimony and proof
of my title. The internecine fighting and rivalry with delusions of
grandeur and lust for power of various Hindu kings facilitated the
invasion, conquest and colonization of India by the Islamic and European
hordes. There was complete lack of foresight in not fortifying the two
major passes (Khyber and Balan) which were the easiest entry points into
a nation otherwise bounded by the Himalayas and the ocean. The first
millennium history had given enough warnings in the successful invasions
by the Scythians (Shakas-Kanishka) and the Huns, yet the Hindu Shahi
dynasty of Kashmir and the Taxila (Taksha-sheela) took no precautions
from around 1000AD. Islam had spread from Arabia and the Zoroastrian
Sassanid empire of Persia had been defeated by the newly Muslim Arabs
over three centuries earlier. Two centuries earlier Arab naval and land
forces had established a beachhead in Sindh. The Hindu ruler had run
away.
Neither the Hindu rulers at the borders had fortified them nor had any
of them read or understood Chanakya’s Arthashastra, a treatise on
statecraft (more devious than Machiavelli’s Prince) composed nearly a
thousand years before. The slightly more distant separate kingdoms from
the border, instead of uniting to resist alien invaders, took delight in
their defeats. Benjamin Franklin’s later words proved true, “Let us all
hang together otherwise we will surely be hanged separately”. In my
previous articles I have remarked on Mohammed Ghazni’s repeated annual
plundering raids hundreds of miles into India, in which he had to depend
on feeding his men in the alien territory while traveling by foot, camel
or horse. Compare that with the devastating strategy that defeated
Napoleon’s French and Hitler’s German invasion of Russia a few centuries
later or the Greeks routing the Persian fleet, a millennium earlier. The
Greeks also had competing small kingdoms, mere city states, but they put
aside their internecine rivalries and united when faced with a powerful
alien enemy.
The congenital idiocy of India’s leaders continued unabated when the
Portuguese came. Vasco De Gama on his first landing committed atrocities
and was repulsed by the local ruler, only to be welcomed at a
neighboring port ruled by his rival. Pizzaro, with a few hundred men,
horses and muskets overran the mighty Inca empire with the support of a
rival pretender to the throne and the Inca superstitious belief that the
Spaniards were gods. Perhaps the reason why the American natives were
called Indians is not because Columbus was looking for a westward sea
passage to India, but the natives of America were not united amongst
themselves and had self-defeating and self-destructive superstitious
religious beliefs, like my present day compatriots.
If Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs & Steel is to be believed, one has to
grant better analytical ability to the primitive tribes of Papua, New
Guinea, who were unsure about the human or divine origins of the first
Europeans they encountered. Their Solon or Solomon solved the problem by
secretly observing them throughout the day and when he observed them
squatting to defecate in a land without toilets, rightly assigned them a
human origin with its inevitable mortality. The Indians fell prey again
for the umpteenth time to the wiles of the Europeans and succumbed to
their divide and rule strategies from the Nawab of Arcot, Nawab of Oudh
to the division into India and Pakistan two centuries later.
The lust for power, delusions of grandeur, lack of foresight and
indifference to national cohesion, welfare and progress had become the
basic genome of India’s leaders by the time of independence. Jinnah, who
drank alcohol, ate pork, never prayed regularly or went to a mosque, was
married to a Parsi woman half his age, succumbed to British intrigue and
demanded Pakistan. He had the hypocrisy to state that in spite of being
a nation carved out on the explicit grounds of an Islamic homeland, it
would be secular. So long as his lust for power and delusions of
grandeur could be fulfilled, every hypocrisy or untruth could be
justified, rationalized, whitewashed and camouflaged to appear as a
stance of principled, selfless virtue.
Nehru with his narcissistic personality disorder, wanted to strut on the
world stage and garner international acclaim, and thus neglected
national defense despite repeated Chinese border infiltration and war,
gave in to linguistic state formations and helped to promote fissiparous
tendencies of India, while neglecting preparations for smooth transition
and grooming younger leaders. Indira Gandhi with the same curses sowed
the seeds of Khalistan and Kashmir insurgencies to combat the Akali Dal
and Abdullah, to maintain her power. She even resorted to declaring an
emergency and tampering with the constitution and the judiciary. To
garner public support she detonated an atomic bomb, oblivious to big
power criticism and sanctions without first procuring adequate uranium
ore.
Vajpayee and the BJP repeated this and then lied that the hydrogen bomb
was successful. Western monitors assessed it was a fizzle and now it is
probably confirmed by Dr. Santhanam. Once again the political hack
appointees like Abdul Kalam, under whom the DRDO failures of the Arjun
tank and multiple missile programs occurred and Anil Kakodkar who
supported the civilian nuclear deal by which Manmohan Singh, Sonia
Gandhi’s puppet, gave away India’s independent nuclear deterrence, are
screaming loudly as the dog on His Master’s Voice records. They spoke up
again like the dummies of a ventriloquist a few days ago until
independent experts like Sethna and Iyengar put them in their place.
India has gotten no enrichment technology and will be coerced to sign
the CTBT and Fissile Material Limitation treaties. It will thus be
brought in through the backdoor into the NPT without any benefits or
rights and threatened like Iran or warned that it will lose American IT
exports if it tests again. France and China did over twenty tests before
they had a reliable hydrogen bomb..
This is happening as Pakistan is producing more and sophisticated
nuclear weapons and nuclear armed cruise missiles with Chinese help and
indirect unintended financing by the US via its earlier 10 billion
dollars aid and new 7.5 billion dollars aid and 10 billion dollars given
by the IMF under US pressure. Pakistan has illegally modified its
Harpoon submarine sea to sea missiles to be able to attack land targets
in India with a mere friendly chastising pat on the back by Obama and
America, the same response Carter and Reagan gave when A.Q. Khan, Zia
and Bhutto clandestinely got the atom bomb and North Korean missiles.
In the meantime China officially states that India must be broken up
into 20 or 30 independent nations. The Chinese Ambassador to India
officially states that Arunachal, a state of the Indian nation, is a
province of China. China has built a rail line to Tibet right up to the
Indian border. Deepak Kapoor, India’s chief general admits that Chinese
incursions into Indian territory have increased and there are incidents
of firing across the border between the Chinese and Indian armies. China
with a rapidly improving economy has markedly increased defense spending
and is rapidly upgrading its army, navy and air force. It has nuclear
weapons including hydrogen bombs, targeted at India, while India whose
only fusion weapon was a fizzle is unable and unallowed to test again
because of the stupidity and craven cowardice of its puppet prime
minister, who because of his personal antipathy to nuclear weapons, sold
the nation’s security down the river for zero benefit. India has no
missiles that can reach Beijing with nuclear weapons. Are we to
retaliate by launching the loose marbles of our leaders as a response?
The characteristic odor of indoles and skatoles which is the nature of
Indian politicians is not unique to one nation. The same delusions,
power lust, indifference to national interest and common citizens is
prevalent in America as well. These combined with ego prevented Johnson
and Nixon from stopping the Vietnam war which was immoral, illegal and a
crime. They did not want to be the president who lost a war and
preferred to set the country on the path to bankruptcy. Carter, Reagan
and Bush Sr. made the road to bankruptcy a toll free highway. Clinton
and Bush Jr presided over the de-industrialization of America and the
little mindless shrub pressed the accelerator to the floor to reach the
destination of national bankruptcy sooner and faster. Obama has the same
ego problem and will continue the Iraq and Afghanistan war and increase
the national debt faster on the road to ruin, to placate his campaign
contributors, so he can be re-elected. His sell out to insurance
companies on healthcare is a perfect example of where his interests lie,
just like those of the drug, hospital and insurance companies’ Senate
Trojan horse, Max Bogus.
It is a strange irony that the successors of the criminally insane,
genocidal maniacs like Mao and Stalin, have become less virulent
malefactors. Hu Jin Tao and Putin, while suffering from power lust,
exercising oppressive tyranny, a tendency for enriching their cronies or
offspring, have one redeeming quality, that of improving the economy and
power of their nations, which makes their fecal odor more tolerable to
the average bloke of their nation, than that of the so called democratic
leaders of India and the US, whose smell or sight evoke uncontrollable
puking in those nations’ citizens.
September 6,
2009
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