Walk the Talk

Referring to President Bush's Axis of Evil speech in the US Congress, his speech-writer David Frum said, "If he had asked the US to stop being the hegemony, he would have been impeached, he probably wouldn't have gotten out of the room alive". Post 9/11 the US was a nation baying for blood. Compare that with the way two nations, India and Israel, deal with terrorism. While Israel seems bent on military solution, India has sought the diplomatic route. In Walk the Talk interview, P.Chidambaram has openly declared war is not an option. Even the print media has broad consensus that it would be easier to deal with a civilian Pakistan. The historian Ramachandra Guha called India an unnatural nation and an unlikely democracy. It wouldn't be entirely wrong to use the word 'mature' to describe our democracy.