This shows what kind of a nation , if at all we are .Even after the public rape of Mumbai for 3 days after which no wonder no one takes us seriously , as Chinese sarcasticingly commented about our big power pretensions .Any one else would have at least scrambled up for a warlike posture .We are just not constituted for facing threats and emergencies
Instead the corrupt Indian political class gets busy with elections which are mostly fraud ie choice between two mafia houses/dynasties and back to the business of looting people , as the daily uncovering of scams shows .
So Pakistan and others can get away with whatever they do . In the days of Indira Gandhi this would not have happened .
Pakistan feared India was going to war after 26/11'
Last updated on: October 28, 2011
Tough talking by the then external affairs minister Pranab Mukherjee, following the 26/11 attacks, rattled Pakistan so much that it pressed the panic button and called everyone from Chinese to the Americans, saying India has decided to go to war.
At one point, the then secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice, also panicked temporarily after she could not get Mukherjee on line even after repeated attempts.
"The Pakistanis say the Indians have warned them that they have decided to go to war," a White House aide anxiously told Rice.
As a result of the rumour coming out of Pakistan, the then US President George Bush asked her to travel to Islamabad and New Delhi to defuse the situation, Rice says in her latest book No High Honors that is scheduled to hit the book stores next week.
"What," Rice uttered after the White House aide told her about the message from Pakistan.
"That isn't what they are (India) telling me. In my many conversations with the Indians over the two days, they had emphasised their desire to defuse the situation and their need for the Pakistanis to do something to show that they accepted responsibility for tracking down the terrorists," Rice wrote in her 766-page book.
Rice asked the operations centre to get Mukherjee on the phone, but they couldn't reach him.
Consequently she started getting nervous and thought that Mukherjee was trying to avoid her as New Delhi was preparing for war.
"I called back again. No response. By now the international phone lines were buzzing with the news. The Pakistanis were calling everyone -- the Saudis, the Emiratis, the Chinese. Finally Mukherjee called back. I told him what I had heard," Rice wrote.
"'What," he said. 'I am in my constituency. (The Indians were preparing for elections, and Mukherjee, who was a member of Parliament, was at home campaigning.) Would I be outside New Delhi if we were about to launch a war," Mukherjee asked.
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