Brinda is an articulate woman. But she has blown the gaffe like Sushma who has alleged that the planting of bombs as a divisionsry tactic to turn the public gaze from the cash-for-vote scam. After all both are women. They need to be excused rather than harsh words pelted at them on this board. Indira Gandhi gifted away 93k soldiers to Pakistan. Saddam in her place would have relly had these POWs catpeted with bullets and gunned down. The fact remains India is intirinsically unable to match with the chinese fire power. Hence we need some outside help to bolster our defence. The former USSR did not help us, but it was Kennedy who bailed out India in her travails when the Chinese troops were upon us. with our politicians hell bent on cheating the public India will never become strong enough to fight on three fronts - China, Pakistan and intenal terror backed up by ISI/Naxal/LTTE. There is another danger some people in SOuth India are pro-LTTE. Therefore India is left with Hobson's choice to develop strong defence ties with Israel and the USA. Nehru's NAM and Panchsheel were long dumped and theyare not workable. We depended on the Soviets because of the commies. Chinese treachery gave the lie to the Hindi-Chini-Bhai-Bhai syndrome cherished by Nehru. Nehru was never pragmatic. He only ended up having messed up India's future with too much dependence on the communists. The late CPI leader Hiren Mukherjee perhaps had paid the greatest tribute to Nehru.
