Misleading Rhetoric.

I saw Sonia Gandhi on the television shouting at the top of her voice denouncing the NDA government for exchange of the three dreaded terrorists for 200 Indian and foreign passengers on board IC 814 in Kandahar and claiming Manmohan Singh government having cleared the Mumbai terrorist attack in a jiffy (बस यूँ!).
It is pathetic to what extent our leaders including the ones of foreign origin can stoop to conquer. It is a national shame that one is trying to equate the two conditions. First of all let us see the score card of UPA. In the recent January encounters in Kashmir, the public was given various figures of the number of terrorists involved. We were told that the area had been surrounded and no one would be able to escape. Then we were told that the circle is being tightened. After several days of fighting we failed to neutralise 10 terrorists, as at the end only 2 dead from their side were found whereas we suffered serious loss of life. Just imagine nine days of fighting by the army of the emerging world power with these shameful results! And the encounter was in forests, not in a city where they could have the excuse of caution to protect the life and limb of the innocent citizens.
And was the operation completed in Mumbai in a jiffy? the commandos took 14 hous to get there. Three days of fighting compared to, for example, the Entebbe rescue by the Israelis? And nobody has as yet answered the inconvenient questions. How could the terrorist come by the sea route. There are numerous agencies such as Coast Guard, Indian Navy, Intelligence Bureau, RAW and undoubtedly many others that would be covert and lesser known. What has been done to punish them for this serious lapse? What has the Government done to investigate the matter and fix the responsibility for such serious lapses. India is so helpless? What do we need such a big navy for? And how will it help if the threat is from terror groups instead of another navy? We have a major naval base there in Mumbai at a stone's throw from the place they are supposed to have entered Mumbai. Could they blow up some of our facilities instead?
The truth is that the armed forces are in a poor state of preparedness, notwithstanding the grandstanding by Sonia and Chidambaram. India is more and more seen as a lame duck target by terror groups. Mammohan Singh has himself admitted to continuing government failure on the terror fight front and he is the man that Sonia Gandhi does not tire of deifying.
What would UPA have done in the case of hijacking of the plane to Kandahar. Everyone knows that Roopan Katyal had been killed and the enemy was not a government. They were irresponsible terrorists who could blow up the plane with 200 passengers without batting an eyelid and without any moral qualms. Would the UPA have sent the air force there? or the commandos in an Entebbe style operation? The plane was surrounded by gun toting Taliban and armoured vehicles. Is the UPA saying that the lives of 200 passengers dispensable? Is Sonia Gandhi saying that the then government should have withdrawn from the negotiations and the exchange and let the people die? I think it was very brave of Jaswant Singh to go there personally as in any case their could be betrayal and he himself could have been killed or held hostage. There was good diplomacy that this did not happen. One must also reflect on the negative role of the section of media that is loyal to congress and was so at that time too.
Nehru created the Kashmir problem. His descendants should not stand on wrong issues and mislead the nation in these difficult and dangerous times. The whole comparison is atrocious and vulgar.