Careers are being curtailed,
lives are being extinguished,
freedom is being killed.

The fervent cries of helplessness are coming out of Afghanistan
and,
the World is standing like a silent spectator. ImageImage
It seems that the Spanish Civil War
happened in just another age in an another world
where
even the ordinary citizens of other countries, voluntarily, fought against oppression,
for a just cause.
What significance and relevance is of your "immense" power, @POTUS
if
it can't check a tyrant from usurping power by violent and forcible means?

Would the World have left Afghanistan on its own
if it had the World's largest reserve of oil?!
@JoeBiden
@BorisJohnson @JustinTrudeau
Is it so difficult to defeat the Taliban
if
the @UN gives the call and mandates the creation of a coalition/ISAF?

What are you wary of?
The Chinese/Russian reaction?

Can China/Russia afford to be seen as supporting the cause of a genocidal force?
Scholars ask for -
"Then, what? Didn't the World intervene 20 years back?
Nothing happened."

But, the situation is much more dire now warranting immediate humanitarian intervention.
Then, think about the future repercussions/permutations/combinations!
The World remained silent in 1979.
It led to the collapse of a Superpower 12 years after.

The World remained silent in 1992.
And, the remaining sole Superpower suffered 9 years later.

Whatever happens in Afghanistan will have global-level repercussions.

Don't ditch them!

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16 Aug
So, Mrs. Nirmala Sitharaman says that she can't reduce the fuel prices (among the highest in the immediate South Asian neighbourhood) because
the Modi government has to pay for the past oil bonds (read: sins of the UPA government).

Hmmm!..

Let's see - how dumb she thinks we are Image
Why were Oil Bonds issued by the Manmohan Singh governments (UPA I and II)?

Because - it wanted to SHIELD Indian consumers (unlike the present regime) from the global Oil price shocks.
Bonds were issued with long maturity times.
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16 Aug
All this 20 years of struggle and, then - cowardly deserting Afghanistan leaves the following conclusions:
1) There is a limit to the effectiveness of, even, the 'boots-on-the-ground' measures. No matter how overwhelming the forces you have, you can't win a War if the Opposition
opts for the doughty guerrilla warfare.
You can't subjugate such resistance, and try for peace building, without bringing the contextual parties on the table for power-sharing talks.

2) No super power in the History has been made as overstretched as the USA has been now.
So, if the point #1 rebuts Mearsheimer's weightage towards the effectiveness of the Land power,
this point (#2) re-affirms his 'tragedy' - you need that economic base to be a preponderant power in all theatres.
It's tough to define the USA a 'superpower' now as it can't do this.
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15 Aug
हिदुओं में भी हर उत्सव वाला कार्य टाल दिया जाता है एक साल के लिए जब परिवार में कोई मृत्यु होती है।

यहाँ,
भारत में, पिछले एक साल में लाखों लोग कोरोना के कहर में खेत गए (आज भी हर दिन, सरकारी आँकड़ों में, करीबन, रोज़ 500 मौतें हो रही हैं),
हज़ारों बच्चे अनाथ हो गए,
लोगों की नौकरियाँ/रोज़गार जाते रहे,
हज़ारों किसान सर्दी-धूप-बरसात में अपनी मांगों के लिए अब भी लड़ रहे हैं,
कभी कोई 'कानपुर' होता है, तो - कभी 'दिल्ली',
सामाजिक वैमनस्य और धार्मिक कट्टरता इतना पैर पसार चुकी है कि शायद ही किसी और देश में इतना हो,
लोकतंत्र एक मज़ाक़ बन कर रह गया है
और, इन सबके बीच एक उत्सव की छद्मता!

क्या कोई परीक्षा पास की जा सकती है अच्छे नंबरों से बिना अपनी कमजोरियों को टटोले हुए,
केवल ये झूठी दिलासा देते हुए कि -
"सब कुछ अच्छा/पॉज़िटिव है"?

#IndependenceDay #AmritMahotsav
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