Maan Gaye Obama!

Hats off, Obama! Sorry, USA! I salute you as a Nation! Am so thrilled to be a part of the latest adaptation of the Entebbe; thrilled that this event is a part of my lifetime! I am sure a lot of skeptics would call your operation as something symbolic of being a bully, interfering with the sovereignty of another state, anti Islamic, anti human dignity, so on and so forth….. What is important is that you have sent a message LOUD and CLEAR to the world- DON’T MESS WITH US. It needs a whole lot of spunk to stand up and shout that out to the world!

We too in India have suffered umpteen humiliations and violations on our freedom. Every now and then there is an attack; a cruel reminder of the insecurity of living next to a terrorist state. Yet…there is no action taken. Its not that our defense forces are not capable of replicating or even perfecting the American courage; its not that we do not have the technique or expertise to carry out a similar operation; its not that we do not have the will and the motivation to do what the Americans did….. Then just where is the hitch? Why in the name of justice, are we still nurturing and nourishing the likes of Kasab, when the kid openly laughs at the Indian judicial laxity.

There is nothing more infuriating than listening to the clipped monotone of Chidambaram, delivered in his impeccable style. His statements as predictable as “Sun rises in the east”, delivered with the traditional dead pan expression is so maddening that I am planning to buy some soft shoes which I can fling on him every time he appears on te TV screen. There is so much of disdain and condescending tenor to his statements ….its almost as if he is looking down from his patrician nose at us the ignorant Indians who want something as base and gross as “REVENGE”. One can never even in the wildest dreams expect Chidambaram, Manmohan Singh etc to walk up to a podium and use the word “I” with the quiet pride and confidence of President Obama. They would still fumble, fret and read out and of course credit it all to their God mother with a bare mention of the men who led the action.

C’mon…it does not need a foreign university degree to tell you that a enemy of state is also the enemy of humanity, what is needed is swift and decisive action and not vote bank appeasement! Indians are so used to this door mat treatment that we send a message to all that we are all ready to be walked all over. What is more;we will even tuck the terrorists into the bed at night after a preferred sumptuous meal of mutton biryani.

Oh, how many times will we take on this humiliation and then pat ourselves for our choiceless Gandhigiri.