Supremely contemptible.

There will be great rejoicing in government circles and in the freeloading press tomorrow as the US has instituted sanctions on 2 aides of Dawood Ibrahim, named as Chota Shakeel and Tiger Memon. The Treasury Department designated the 2 as narcotic traffickers citing their ties to D Company, " one of the world's most notorious criminal organisations ". Both are Indian citizens as was Dawood Ibrahim who was the mastermind behind terror bombings in Mumbai in 1993 which left more than 250 dead. Dawood was named a Specially Designated Global Terrorist in October 2003 and Significant Foreign Narcotics Trafficker in June 2006 by the US. Surely, with a million man armed forces India should have caught and hanged him by now but not only is he free but he lives a life of luxury in Karachi in Pakistan. Naturally, Pakistani authorities have no idea of where he is even though senior officers attended his daughter's wedding to the son of former Pakistani cricketer, Javed Miandad. There were big headlines when the US announced a bounty of $10 million on Hafiz Saeed of the LeT who masterminded the terror attacks of 2008 in Mumbai. Saeed laughed and is freely roaming around Pakistan preaching violent hatred against India and the US because Pakistanis claim have no " evidence " against him. So, why does the US throw a bone to India now and then which creates such ecstasy in our politicians and the freeloading press? The dates coincide with the US presence in Afghanistan where they have been bogged down and now want to escape. The US wants India to reduce troops on its borders so that the Pakistanis transfer their troops to the west and fight the Taliban. In recent weeks the Taliban has stepped up its attacks on US and NATO forces who have been taking casualties. The US desperately wants to weaken the Taliban so that it is no longer a threat after they pull out by 2014. To that end they want the Pakistanis to take out Taliban strongholds in Waziristan which the Pakistanis are reluctant to do. Hence the little tidbits for India which are eagerly accepted by our politicians as an excuse for going on " bended knees " to talk peace with Pakistan. Why, when our parliament is so " supreme ", are we so supine? Why are our politicians not supremely angry at the loss of Indian lives? Because they are very angry at academics who included a cartoon on Dr Ambedkar in school textbooks to make history lessons more interesting. The cartoon was satirizing the long time being taken to write the constitution and was published on August 28, 1949 when Dr Ambedkar was still alive and would no doubt have seen it. Supremely corrupt, supremely irrelevant and supremely contemptible, that is what they are.