V Said That!!!

The confusion in the INC leadership was wide open for everybody to watch in the non-stop coverage by the electronic and social media for the entire Sunday, the experienced captain has anticipated the move of Rahul & Priyanka to humiliate him by passing a resolution against Capt Amrinder singh’s leadership by a group of MLA’s in an emergency meeting called on Sunday without keeping him in the loop. The Congress veteran who has seen such situations in the past have cleverly submitted his resignation before the plan works out, not knowing how to play the googly from the seasoned politician, the entire congress leadership went into a series of discussions for the selection of the new CM candidate in hurry against their original plan to play the victory of Navjot Sidhu for couple of days and then bring in a consensus candidate. As we heard different names spelled out in the media from the so-called sources, Ambika Soni, Sunil Jhakar,...

After watching the events unfolding from Taliban taking over Kabul to Government formation by the Afghan war lords on the same day of the 20th Anniversary of 9/11, ironically, clock has gone back full circle to the same position as on 9th Sep 2001 with the Taliban Terrorists ruling Afghanistan and US Forces back in the barracks remembering the loss of nearly 3000 US citizens. Trying to understand this gigantic event in the middle east affecting entire Asia has made me to revisit the events of the past two decades after the 9/11 attack on the US soil, which was the only such event after the Pearl Harbor bombing. Since then, we have four US presidents taking the "Global war on Terror" narrative to the entire world, bombing the Tora Bora caves, killing many Afghan citizens, funding the governments in Kabul, all in the name of bringing democracy to Afghanistan, has yielded less than anticipated. Today we neither have a democratically elected government leading Afghanistan nor Ter...