Sunday, January 13, 2013

MJ Akbar on Manmohan Singh's cravenness

Posted by Arun at 8:48 AM

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CIP · 637 weeks ago

One useful lesson of history is that there will always be cheerleaders for jolly little wars - apparently even when nuclear weapons are involved.
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Arun · 637 weeks ago

Sorry, but nobody is talking about a war. It is simply not to negotiate like an Obama.
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CIP · 637 weeks ago

That's good. It a real relief to know that there is no danger that two countries with nuclear weapons might actually start shooting at each other.
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Vishal · 637 weeks ago

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sadhana · 637 weeks ago

From 80 years ago[1930-31]:
M.R. Jayakar's warning to Gandhi, 9 August 1944
"There are some other points which he will demand in course of time and you will be powerless to resist his demands. It will be a down-hill process and its gathering momentum will sweep everything aside and it will be impossible to reverse the gear and turn back. I need not elaborate these other points. Mr Jinnah is a very astute person, as I said above, and recognizes no obligations of propriety, decency or loyalty. I will give you one of my experiences. At the first Round Table Conference, Dr Moonje, with characteristic generosity (which turned out in the end to be foolish), went on conceding one point after another to Mr Jinnah, on the latter's assurance that the price of these concessions would be joint electorates. After this parleying had gone on for five or six days, Prime Minister McDonald telephoned to me one evening enquiring who was carrying on these foolish negotiations. He asked me to stop them, adding that every evening, Mr Jinnah took to him the paper on which were noted the concessions made by Dr Moonje and the Prime Minister was asked : "The Hindus are giving me so much. How much more are His Majesty's Government willing to give me?" . The result was that these negotiations had to be stopped with what consequences you know.
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