Tuesday, April 16, 2019
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Once again we showed how idiot we are
Two big days separated by an ordinary day or two - one bomb explodes in a popular bakery at Pune and on the other 51 men of Para military force Eastern Rifles are butchered by Maoists - Who is the Culprit in the former? Jihadists? Nah. We ourselves! The waiter was very curious to see what was inside the bag, perhaps greed - that so very common trait of every Indian- was the driving force behind his action, but his greed or idiocy born of greed caused so many deaths and much destruction. Then the home minister put his foot in his mouth "This is not an intelligence failure, it was a soft target". As if terrorists use hard targets to strike at. In 2006, the United Kingdom carried out an intelligence surveillance on prospective jehadis and uncovered their plan of using some common items of daily use such as toiletries as bombs on airplanes. The operators were kept under surveillance for long and when they were about to strike, they were apprehended before they could do any harm. Can we not follow that kind of surveillance? We spend billions of rupees on deploying lazy police on supposedly threatened sites. Still terrorists find a way to strike. Instead, if we concentrated on genuine intelligence gathering such as the USA and the UK gather, we could save ourselves a lot of grief. But first of all we are Indians, Greedy Idiotic and dishonest, so we don't find real solutions. We, instead, look around to find scapegoats.
In the second instance, where Maoist thugs surrounded a paramilitary camp housing 51 personnel and butchered them at will, because our paramilitary people had gone there not on a fighting mission, but to party so everyone was busy with cooking meals for the day and were caught unawares. They are not to be blamed for this unawareness. It is in their blood. They were not meant to be serving in a job which requires constant alertness. They were lethargic people and could have served well in any clerical capacity in a government office requiring very little mental or physical agility. The fault lies with the government for recruiting people most unsuited for highly demanding jobs.
Take for instance the case of Mr. Hemant Karkare. Before he joined, IPS, he was an engineer, Now, government subsidises higher education and an engineering degree which would otherwise cost close to a million dollars in the USA is offered at a very nominal price in Indian IITs. So when an engineer, having availed of that free or semi free facility of subsidised education, decides to pursue a vocation totally unrelated to his line of education, he is doing a disservice to everyone - to the tax payers who paid for his subsidised education, to the nation and the people whom he professes to serve in his new capacity. Just imagine, if Hemant Karkare had scored more numbers in Civil Services, he would have been considered for IAS or IFS or if he had got less marks, he would have been considered for Indian Revenue Services or Customs or Indian Postal Services. What we ignore here is the 'Aptitude'. In the highly demanding jobs like that of police, it is the 'Aptitude' which makes all the difference between success and failure. Catching petty thieves and forcing them to own up their crimes is one thing and fighting an organised gang of highly motivated jihadis is altogether different and requires very different approaches. Hemant Karkare and his colleagues sadly fell to terrorists bullets because of this basic incompetence of making situational adjustments, for which, they, sadly, didn't have the aptitude. The same thing has emerged again and again with disastrous results such as we see in Maoists' actions. A specially trained paramilitary force (I am choking with laughter - especially trained huh) are incompetent against hap hazard lot of ruffians of these Maoists who are nothing but common thugs without any special training in warfare and who have only come together to prey upon hapless people. These ruffians, if they were not acting as a group and hence acting as a political outfit, would otherwise be, in their individual capacities, picking someone's pocket, snatching chains, looting people and blaming the entire world for all the wrongs done to them. But thanks to our Idiotic government, these common thieves have turned in to a big menace and military force to reckon with.
In the second instance, where Maoist thugs surrounded a paramilitary camp housing 51 personnel and butchered them at will, because our paramilitary people had gone there not on a fighting mission, but to party so everyone was busy with cooking meals for the day and were caught unawares. They are not to be blamed for this unawareness. It is in their blood. They were not meant to be serving in a job which requires constant alertness. They were lethargic people and could have served well in any clerical capacity in a government office requiring very little mental or physical agility. The fault lies with the government for recruiting people most unsuited for highly demanding jobs.
Take for instance the case of Mr. Hemant Karkare. Before he joined, IPS, he was an engineer, Now, government subsidises higher education and an engineering degree which would otherwise cost close to a million dollars in the USA is offered at a very nominal price in Indian IITs. So when an engineer, having availed of that free or semi free facility of subsidised education, decides to pursue a vocation totally unrelated to his line of education, he is doing a disservice to everyone - to the tax payers who paid for his subsidised education, to the nation and the people whom he professes to serve in his new capacity. Just imagine, if Hemant Karkare had scored more numbers in Civil Services, he would have been considered for IAS or IFS or if he had got less marks, he would have been considered for Indian Revenue Services or Customs or Indian Postal Services. What we ignore here is the 'Aptitude'. In the highly demanding jobs like that of police, it is the 'Aptitude' which makes all the difference between success and failure. Catching petty thieves and forcing them to own up their crimes is one thing and fighting an organised gang of highly motivated jihadis is altogether different and requires very different approaches. Hemant Karkare and his colleagues sadly fell to terrorists bullets because of this basic incompetence of making situational adjustments, for which, they, sadly, didn't have the aptitude. The same thing has emerged again and again with disastrous results such as we see in Maoists' actions. A specially trained paramilitary force (I am choking with laughter - especially trained huh) are incompetent against hap hazard lot of ruffians of these Maoists who are nothing but common thugs without any special training in warfare and who have only come together to prey upon hapless people. These ruffians, if they were not acting as a group and hence acting as a political outfit, would otherwise be, in their individual capacities, picking someone's pocket, snatching chains, looting people and blaming the entire world for all the wrongs done to them. But thanks to our Idiotic government, these common thieves have turned in to a big menace and military force to reckon with.
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