Urban Naxals chronically opposed to the Modi dispensation never tire of digging up one fake issue or another with which to berate the proud, patriotic government. Their latest anti-national mischief is to ask why it is that an Iran can stand up to the allegedly invincible America and Bharat cannot. (Never mind the Urban Naxals’ claim that this mighty nation has lost all battles it engaged in, some ignominiously beyond sufferance.)

The question they raise – as anyone can see – betrays a characteristic deficiency of scholarship and grasp over facts, however much these unrepentant troublemakers might flaunt their academic accomplishments.

As if reading and writing had anything to do with political and military success.

After all, the capacity of any country to withstand the arrogance of big powers is related to its demography. So where Iran has a population of a huge 98 million people, Bharat is only 14 plus two zeros in contrast. Tell us, which is greater – 98 or 14 – although zero was our own contribution to knowledge.

Then our civilisational coalescing with Zionism prohibits such ill manners as to cast any sort of harsh word, adverse vote or, god forbid, reckless bullet against that darling of nations, Israel – America’s unshakeable vanguard tail.

No teeny-weeny tail either, since it wags humongous business conglomerates, mighty media behemoths, most noble senators and congressmen, the mercantile tsars of the Pentagon, the CIA, via the Mossad, in the land of the free and the home of the brave. A performance to be envied rather than derided, would you not say? If only the US of A would bestow the same privileged status on........

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