I think time has come to learn the spirit of nationhood from Americans.Being an Army Officer, I felt ashamed of myself when our great politicians linked Operation Vijay (the famous Kargil war) with dirty or rather petty politics.They should learn that a soldier never dies for BJP or a CONGRESS, he rather does so, for the pride of his motherland.It is therefore, for the politicians , to decide the reasons of that pride.The Generals ,too, share equal morality. By associating this war with party politics, we are inviting a complete DISASTER of our sacred ARMED FORCES
In a country like India,where our soldiers have to pay bribe to get a railway seat or run from pillar to post to get a basic work done from civil administration, our politicians should rather concentrate on.
Contrary to this , We must look at the United States of America , where soldiers are considered as national pride & are never linked with politics. It runs in their spirit of nationhood. No wonder they rule the WORLD.
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Hi Major,
ReplyDeleteYou are very write as far as our Political system is concerned towards our great Indian Armed forces are concerend.We can not compare the secrifises of our soldiers with anything, only thing we can do to give them the real respect from botton of our heart.
Thanks...
Jason....(Chandigarh)
plotics in INDIA is unique & dirty interferance of polticians into miitary matters be it a war,conflict,or procurment of weapon, new air craft for AIR FORCE,Aircraft carrier for NAVY or mordenised weapons for mumbai polce ---all have the political motive or agenda behind them
ReplyDeleteBUT it is pity that now they have started this dirty game on our martyr's who make supreme sacrifice for our mother land.
Very rightly brought out by MAJOR Surinder that we must learn from USA --on how to respect our soliders
Dear Surinnder, In my opinion India as a nation lacks stratgic insights.There could be many reasons for this-the most obvious to my mind is that Gandiji gave them freedom from slavery just on the platter.the politicians of the time even though were courting jail terms for their struggles for Independence, they generlly veiwed the army innimical to their cause.Even after 62 yrs of Independence the suspicions of the politicians of all hues have not channged much.To change this ingrained misthought,there has be co-ordinated effort both by the thinkers like you as also by the top echelons of the Armed Forces.
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