Is India a soft State?

[The Messiah]

Bring back indira gandhi and impose emergency but many people didn't like that either.

 

[JBH22]

Is India a soft state? No, we are a tolerant state. The day the limit is crossed, the world will witness a resurgent India.

Do we fool ourselves by saying that.Self restraint and no war mongering attitude is a good thing but increasingly i think we are adopting a defeatist attitude

 

[captonjohn]

India is not a soft state but we have given our impression to the world as a soft state by blindly sticking with peace and non-violence. Due our weak policy and politicians we have faced four wars and will be facing more in future. Even we haven't learned any lesson from 1962, now for what we are waiting? another 26/11 or 13/12?

 

[civfanatic]

Absolutely, we are a soft state.

There is perhaps no other country in the history of the world that has tolerated so much in such a hostile neighborhood. If Russia or U.S. was in our place, do you think Pakistan would still be around? We had numerous opportunities to deal decisively with Pakistan, most notably during the Soviet War in Afghanistan, but we missed that opportunity, among others.

 

[Oracle]

Do we fool ourselves by saying that.Self restraint and no war mongering attitude is a good thing but increasingly i think we are adopting a defeatist attitude

This attitude amongst us has clocked 9% growth, whereas our neighbor is among the Top 10 failed states. War is never a solution. Only scavengers win their lunch during wars.

 

[Armand2REP]

Agree with you completly, but its impossible now in this age. Otherwise China would have taken Taiwan much earlier.

Why? Russia took South Ossetia and Abkhazia. US didn't do shit. You just have to stand up for yourself. If it leads to a shooting war, be prepared and win it.

Huh ....You mean we need to do another war to reverse the trend.

Not necessarily, but you need to be prepared and not to back down. It is often a game of chicken.

Not example of weak power.. example of weak system or governance.

Weak leaders are an integral part of weak power.

Only exception is China , even with a hard stance we wont be able to do it due to past history and level of trust.

I don't see India getting any great concessions from the West. They sign $20 billion in deals with France and gain practically no leverage on us. Now they just become more reliant on nuclear trade.

We dont need to and we are not supposed to. We are not colonists.

Same answer. We are not in British era anymore..

Is that why India and China work several African plantations and mines? You are the new colonial era.

Defense preparedness. It does nt mean every weapon we buy must be used.. like buying fire crackers in diwali.

If India is determined hard or soft by its procurement policy, I am again going to have to say soft.

Yes they talks , because they are part of the problem. i was talking about other nations. What is the relavance of Angola.. In a global scenario , we usually look at the opinions of major powers only. ( Do we have a face palm smiley here..Lol)

Nobody talks about Kashmir because people don't want to upset everything, not just India but Pakistan and China.

We are not good at target assacinations,
Agree with hanging kasab ASAP,
Taxing chinese goods is also a good idea even banning is also good, but we cant dictate them to stop aiding Pakistan militarily, even US cant do that.. does that mean US is also soft power?

US doesn't care if China aids Pakistan... why would they? It is obvious why India cares about both aiding Pakistan and they don't do anything about it even though they have great economic clout to do so. That is again why India is soft.

yes pick up the gun and lets follow what Iraq did in Kuwait..and act tough..

If you have to send PoK and LoC forces back to where they came from, so be it. Let India stand strong over her own interests.

 

[arya]

proud is not free you have to pay for it

fact is we indian forget how to live with proud any one can do anything

there is no question all world know we indian are soo much soft

 

[johnee]

Would any other country in place of India tolerated 26/11 without a wimper like India did?!! I think not. So, India is a soft country.
Would any other country threaten to take action against those who wish to hoist national flag within the country? I think not. So, India is soft country.

The two instances above are two facets of indian softness. One is toward external aggression and the other is towards internal secession. Both are 'tolerated'. Indian PEOPLE are given lectures by its govt about 'forgiveness', 'non-violence'...etc etc. The main victim of this 'softness' is the people. The real villian is the govt of the day...

 

[Parthy]

Bring back indira gandhi and impose emergency but many people didn't like that either.

If they wanna do politics they can find 1000 faults even on a policy created for free education!!! And we do have a great number of dumb supporters for them who doesn't think about any logic....

 

[Parthy]

We'll never regain the whole of Kashmir from Pakistan.. When we backed to LAC during 1972 war and not crossing the LOC during Kargil war, clearly states that we have accepted that PoK belongs to Pakistan and what we have in our control is ours..

None of our politicians wanted to take decisive decisions.. All just have a fascination towards ruling a country, tats it..

 

[debasree]

india is a soft power as its leaders r quite hesitant 2 take strong action,when its need most; we allways think about what foreign powers tell us,we allways want 2 be good boys in their eyes.

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