Dude, where is my foreign policy

While I am ambivalent about the entertainment value of car wrecks, I pretty much don’t want to be a part of it. Therefore, it is only with dismay that I can react to the direction (misdirection will be more accurate in the context) UPA government is steering our foreign policy to.

A case in point is Sri-Lanka, it is nobody’s contention that the history of conflict is a simple one, or that there is necessarily black and white narrative.
However what one can not argue against is the necessity of a stable and pro-India Sri-Lanka. This will mean active engagement of India to broker an agreement between the opposing parties, this also means that India have to work out the ways to neutralize LTTE, for the simple reason is that very presence of LTTE which has a history of ruthlessness and brutality against rival Tamil politicians mars any chance of settlement.

However the under constant pressure of Dravid parties, UPA government has adopted inaction as the policy, hoping to maintain status quo. Yet with US, China and Pakistan actively supporting Sri-Lankan government in order to gain strategic foothold, status quo is the last thing which is possible, instead the initiative is slipping from India, so is ability to leverage situation in Sri Lanka.

If this continues it is likely that India will become irrelevant, and what is worse would have allowed her to be encircled by forces at best competing, and at worst hostile.

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