Since the days of yore if there is one attribute India has consistently maintained and exhibited is foolishness that has invariably resulted in self-hurting. And if there is one single act of foolishness that India has consistently resorted to is trusting its neighbours from a certain religious community (I don't want to name it and be explicit). There is historical evidence that Indian boundary was extended upto current Afghanistan. However, as a particular religion originated from Western Asia, the part that we frequently call as "middle east", and progressed towards east, Indian boundary has steadily shrinked at its western front. India's latest strip off has been the deletion of the lands of nowadays referred Pakistan and Bangladesh from its map. And yet we don't learn. Yet we believe that our cunning, malicious neighbours are interested in peace. Well, guess what? They are not. They are just hibernating before they become powerful enough to slice out another chunk of India's flesh. And if we choose to trust them again, once more it would be only us left to blame when the inevitable happens and Indian boundary suffers another major shrinkage.
