No if was not absurd, people warned, they didn’t take the warning. A lot of people knew it would happend they just did not know when.

The West created & sustained that monster, so let them sort it out.
All India has to do is not get provoked/distracted, and concentrate her efforts on the economy, education and modernising infrastructure & armed forces befitting of a future super-power (imho).

Expanding trade & investment with China will obviously be mutually beneficial and will reduce tensions markedly- a slow starter thus far.

My sentiments exactly. Although I do not trust China. May be when it embraces democracy I will. 🙂

So called Islamic terrorism is a flash in the pan, the real risk that the 2 billion muslims of the world challenging the 500 years of world domination by the west. The real irritant for the muslims is Israel and they hate America because it supports Israel. The western supported regimes in muslim countries will ultimately fail under the tide of history and then Israel and US will have to face the threat from all these countries. The US knows that the only country with a reasonable industrial base and large population base which can potentially support them against the threat from not only growing Islamism but also from rising China is India and that is why they are wooing us. I think the Europeans will only give token support. They have had two world wars in a life time and don’t want another. We have been seduced into an alliance with US and Israel against the 2 billion muslims and 1 billion chinese. But look at our borders and our demographics. We have two large muslim countries on two sides and China on the other plus huge internal muslim population. I think our alliance with the US and Israel could ultimately destroy us as we will be fightung somebody else’s battle. We have to take the matter in our own hand and take out the threat before they grow too big.

Your world view is a bit jaded, I will tell you why. China for instance is fighting its own battle with terror in its western provinces. The Muslims of this world have not been united after a single force after Saladin and the third crusade. So its absurd to think that any country would be facing 2 million muslims. And why do you think every muslim wants a war with India or the west ? I know that majority of Muslims in India support us in a war against Pakistan, and that most of them live in fear of being marginalized back home when there is an Indo-Pak war.

The Chinese are going to be ahead of us at least for another four decades, do we want to be friendly with them and make the mistake we made in the 1960s. An alliance with U.S and Japan is natural its more of a deterrent for all players concerned to contain China. So we are not fighting anyone else’s war.

We cannot defeat Terrorism by Invading Pakistan. The Invasion will be slow tedious and success costly, Pakistan does not have luring natural resources or anything to make strategic sense, as for terrorism, if the small issue of Kashmir can inspire this much terror in our lands, Imagine what the whole territory of Pakistan can do !

Islam is no threat, Islamic terrorism is. Proactive do not mean all out war. What about souping up our Intelligence agencies, like Raw and IB and doing convert missions in Pakistan getting the people we wanted.

I know its hard to do than mobilizing troops, but its the smart way.

I think for defence we are better off with the state-run companies. During the 2001-2002 standoff with Pakistan some businessmen with industrial plants in Gujarat near the Pakistan border had secretly lobbied with the government to stand down.

Which was all for the better. I do not want a war with Pakistan till we reach our full military potential. 🙂

The Tejas is not like that. 🙂 Neither is the Arjun.