On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 5:30 PM, Indrajit Gupta<[email protected]> wrote: > > Shiv, > > I've just come out of a very bad discussion on PakTeaHouse where the sheer > rascality of the leadership of both India and Pakistan was on full display. > > How can any nation - and I include Bangladesh in this - survive such > villainous leadership? > > Are we specially vile? Are other leaders the same? Are we all drifting along > led by people who simply have no idea what they are doing, and why they are > doing it? Is democracy just a sham, giving us the power to elect > representatives, and from them leaders? without giving us the slightest say > in what they do with the mandate? > > It is amazing that we survived Nehru and Patel, even Gandhi, and that the > Pakistanis survived Jinnah, Ghulam Mohammed and Iskander Mirza (I don't want > to even think about the military dictators) and that Bangladesh survived > Mujeeb, Zia, Ershad and their blessed womenfolk.
Pakistan survived ? for some value of survive. Just as a patient in coma is alive or a quadraplegic is alive. They cannot even control even their own territory. -- Vinayak
