Ashoka has been coined as the ‘Great’. Was he really Great? He wasn’t so great after all for what he did to the then India, and of course current India, and the Indian psyche as far as the safety, security, military and people’s view on ‘peace’ and ‘forgiveness’ to the enemy is concerned. What we lost in Ashoka’s quest for antiwar mindset after his Kalinga war, was a total disbanding of military and propagating peace and anti war culture. His furious Buddhist forays within India and around India made him a Great leader but created a citizenry of coward ‘peaceniks’ who believed in less and less of military thereby losing marshal and military skills and strategies. Consequently after Ashoka, India was broken up into small principalities and eventually we had Prithviraj Chowhan and Mohammad Gauri fiasco. We lost India’s might and independence for ever.
Now, we must learn a lesson from our past and get rid of this ‘peace’ cloak. Our scripture Gita says that peace can only be for those who can defend it with their might. This might as we call it has to be built over time with a lot of people investment and financial investment. We must prepare our intelligence skills for covert operations and military, i.e., army, navy and air force, for overt operation and we must not shy awat from taking proper action at the right time. We must not waste time in waiting for results by offering ‘peace’ carrot instead of teaching a lesson with mighty ‘stick’ to bend the trouble makers and terrorism sponsoring nations to co-opt for peace themselves. This mighty stick should have a built-in big covert operation that could destabilize the enemy in their plans to use terror as the state policy. For that we need a real gung-ho set of intelligence operatives and funds. Also, we need to use cooperation of like minded highly skilled intelligence forces like Savak or Mosad or CIA.
We have to take on twenty first century problems head on and fight fire with fire. Let’s not get our down and keep losing our pride, men, peace and, of course, the land in our attempt to be termed as ‘good peaceful guys’ in the comity of nations. Every one of these nations laughs at us for our cowardice. The only time we got our heads high when Indira Gandhi had the first nuclear test and then when covertly we repeated again with umpteen tests that were even more powerful and mightier that the previous one. Our first Prime Minister Mr. Nehru died as a result of shock of defeat from our Panchsheel Friend and Brother China! So much for peace!
Wake up and pull up your socks. Tell your government to prepare India to become a Global Power. Use your voting power to impress upon this theme. Also, influence your media, both print and electronic, to start the theme of mighty and powerful India devoid of poverty and controlled population growth and to be economically and militarily strong Global Power. We can align with other nations to tackle both China and its menacing partner Pakistan!!
So, friends and Indians! Let’s get rid of this folly of useless syndrome of peace and cowardice of Ashoka. We got to come out of ‘Ashoka the Great’ mindset!
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