THE POLITICS OF TERROR
As, Terrorism is a continuation of war by other means and war is the continuation of politics by other means, the terror led war by our neighbor is the result of our fledgling political will power.
It’s high time we said, “India is a victim of war in form of terrorism”. Now, its time to realize the truth and face it in a true spirit. Yes, we are a victim of a terror led war, but not the way we perceive it. Terrorism is something which we use to cover the reality. The reality which we are yet to come to terms with. The fact lies beneath this all artificial hue and cry.
The denied truth is, we are a victim of a dirty politics and a corrupt system. It’s said that, ‘politics is a dirty game’. Now we realize why it is so. Despite the continued terror attacks we have faced and the innumerable casualty this country has witnessed, probably the most in the world, we are unable to trace the breeding ground and book the culprit. Our ‘me/mine first’ politics is to blame for all these terror strikes and related problems we face today.
Since, after the independence, more or less none of the political parties, who came to power, showed willingness to eradicate this problem for once and all. They just tried to cash in on this issue by luring the voters, both sentimentally and emotionally.
After the independence, for a continuous 30 years the grand old party of India, congress, lead the north block with lack of efficiency, clear mindset and the absence the willingness, which led to the nourishment of this yet to be healed wound. Congress always talked of solving the Kashmir issue through the so-called ‘bilateral talks’ but in their leadership, India always remain a mere spectator and a victim of extremism in the name of jihad. It’s an untold but well understood truth that the ‘secularism’ of this party cost India its peace and fraternity.
While after 1977, when the Janata party came into power, it was a popular feeling that they will show some maturity in solving this core issue which prompts our neighbor to destabilize us through various means. But the Janata Party too played a no-different role. With its HINDUTVA agenda and Ram Mandir, it garnered many supporters but compromised India’s integrity and furthered the British cause of divide and rule. They glued to their new found glory and publicity but forgot to defend the external intrusion. And their hard work of divisive politics rubbed salt to the already wounded Indian soil by further fragmenting us into two sections of Hindus and Muslims. The Bharatiya Janata party (after its divide) left no stone unturned in fuelling hatred amongst us in the name of spreading the National culture.
As, terrorism is the continuation of war by other means, war is the continuation of politics by other means. Our ill-feted politics is the sole cause to blame for all these. After a few endeavor even a spider learn how to web but our politicians are yet to learn any lesion from it and so are their policies.
Our policies have always been defensive and not offensive, which is sometimes good. But it’s just not acceptable to defend after the damage is done. Prevention is better than cure but defending after an attack is meaningless. Our policy should be to safeguard us from any external aggression beforehand and if someone crosses the line he must be replied in the same language. Enough paper work and diplomatic dialogues have been said and done. Now its time to say, if you want it so have it. Its time to say Indians first in place of me/mine first.
Apart from the willingness of our politicians, the reason behind the amateur defense mechanism and lack of counter terror doctrine, are the outdated politicos. They might be outdated because of their thinking capacity and will power but definitely not because of their age, at least because as they seem reluctant to give away the throne to the younger generation. They are good at making speeches and show statistics but when it comes to action, they are helpless. They might be no more willing to defend us but always willing to stick to the chair and make larger than life promises same as a bollywood actor does. And thus their greed for the chair has made them the most distinct creature on the earth, which is not going to extinct in the near future.
