Nevil Chamberlain reincarnated

Does anybody remember who Nevil Chamberlain was?

Oh yes! He is synonymous with a foreign policy of appeasement and weakness.

To the uninitiated Chamberlain was a former British priminister, who signed the Munich agreement in Germany in 1938 conceding Sudetenland to Hitler, overlooking and overruling the concerns of Czechoslovakia republic. He praised Hitler and Musolini and was too anxious to buy peace with Germany, even at the expense of Czechs and Austrians. Probably he was handicapped by his domestic problems, probably he had a wishful thinking that by placating Germany and Hitler a war could be avoided, or probably he truly believed that Hitler and Musolini were gentlemen who did break agreements and Sudetenland would be the end to Germany's ambitions in Europe.

Well, history shows that whatever his intentions were, however good a man he was, he was wrong.

Similarly we have a good man at our helm, who is anxious to buy peace with Pakistan and China, to placate the "wounded" Pakistan who, according to him, is a "victim of terrorism", who probably in all his sincerity thinks that peace can come through dialogs, even at the cost of his own country's security stand and a few good fellow country men who would die defending the nation again and again or a few bomb blasts here and there which would claim innocent victims again and again.

But this time he has got it all wrong. Pakistan is not a migraine as a former US secretary puts it to be, its a cancer, a very malignant one. Pakistan is so engulfed in its own game of vicious treachery and duplicity, that it has no way to come out of the mess. It cannot keep any promise, or commitment, or agreement. Time and again its leaders have fed on the goodwill of the weak and credulous neighbour, and time and again it has duped the world at large and stabbed its eager to trust neighbour in the back. It has put up a false facade of being a "victim", when all along it is the perpetuator and epicentre of all terrorist activities. But just as all duplicities and cunningness have their end, this nation is now caught with the very weaopon that it used to bleed others. Unless it stops this duplicity and be sincere it cannot come out of the mess. And it cannot stop this because then politically it will have to pay a big price. So Pakistan is doomed. A nation which is born in despicable violence will also go down in violence.

What about India? The policy of appeasement will certainly not last. Pakistan will go down but it will take a slice of India along with it. We'll have to pay a very heavy price for our leadership's weakness and myopia.