12-07-2005, 12:10 AM
<!--QuoteBegin-rajesh_g+Oct 10 2004, 12:49 AM-->QUOTE(rajesh_g @ Oct 10 2004, 12:49 AM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->This is so depressing.. Altho not related to Gandhi, a sidenote from the same essay..
<!--QuoteBegin--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->(This was also the case in 1962 when China attacked India. The country rose as one, prepared to fight the Chinese, but Nehru - an effete though voluble 'leader' with no tradition or even comprehension of the military - completely lost his nerve. When his emissary went to see Kennedy, begging for help, Kennedy asked the hapless man: "The British were able to stand up to the Germans for three years before we came to their help, and you couldn't hold out for three days?" This undeserved humiliation was heaped on the country entirely because of Nehru's failure of nerve.)<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
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if NDTV reports are to be believed, the china war was lagao-ed by nehru's orders to the indian army to cross an agreed upon line and "capture" a hill/mountain which was actually in china.
once the soldiers acted upon nehru's orders, china made sure india had hell to pay. nehru promptly ditched Assam leaving their fate to the chinese, got lata mangeskar to sing chart busting numbers and went to Kennedy to beg for millitary aid and food.
clowns should stick to the circus and avoid parliament.
<!--QuoteBegin--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->(This was also the case in 1962 when China attacked India. The country rose as one, prepared to fight the Chinese, but Nehru - an effete though voluble 'leader' with no tradition or even comprehension of the military - completely lost his nerve. When his emissary went to see Kennedy, begging for help, Kennedy asked the hapless man: "The British were able to stand up to the Germans for three years before we came to their help, and you couldn't hold out for three days?" This undeserved humiliation was heaped on the country entirely because of Nehru's failure of nerve.)<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
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if NDTV reports are to be believed, the china war was lagao-ed by nehru's orders to the indian army to cross an agreed upon line and "capture" a hill/mountain which was actually in china.
once the soldiers acted upon nehru's orders, china made sure india had hell to pay. nehru promptly ditched Assam leaving their fate to the chinese, got lata mangeskar to sing chart busting numbers and went to Kennedy to beg for millitary aid and food.
clowns should stick to the circus and avoid parliament.