Swines of the week - mid week edition

Yes this is an early edition. Due to time constraints I was not able to get the right photos. But here goes,

• Swine #1: As pointed out by reader CodeNameV - a beloved Indian economist Amartya Sen who claimed,

  I am on Left and if Left want me I’m delighted.
  

Apparently the criticism of the Leftist intelligentsia (aka village idiots) has stung Amartya that he wants to rebuild those bridges.

• Swine #2: Is an old favorite of this blog, good old Sidd Varadarajan for his support Manmohan Singh's asinine actions and abject capitulation vis-a-vis Pakistan during the recent summit.

That is why Dr. Singh was careful to emphasise on Wednesday the need for India to make sincere efforts to live in peace with Pakistan, to reach “an honourable settlement of the problems between us,” to keep channels open. “Unless we want to go to war with Pakistan, dialogue is the only way out,” he asserted at the end of his speech, “but we should do so on the basis of ‘trust but verify’.”

Really Sidd, do you expect us to believe this bunch of BS? Let us say hypothetically there is another attack in Indian soil by Pak sponsored militants in the near future. Where does this leave the Indian Government? Are we again going to beat our breasts and complain that Pakistan govt. could not control the militants? Or are we going to continue the dialogue as you so smartly analyzed that without dialogue this problem cannot be solved? Lets face it Pakistan has no interest in controlling the militants from attacking India. The only reason why we have not seen more attacks is the pressure by the US government to handle certain groups within Pakistan which has forced the ISI and the Army to take action.
MMS has done precious little to bolster India's national security and his actions expose him for what he is.

Swine of the Week - Week ending July 17th 2009

This week's winner of the CBCNN's SOW contest (prize money - Nigerian oil money - email is on the way) - Karthik, Xinhua Ram and Sudhir as discussed in Pilid's post here's this week's Swine and Jackass. Without further ado:
The first person who should be kicked out of Parliament for treason is the present Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Why is that? India has been a target of numerous attacks direct and indirect from its neighbor in the West - Pakistan. The most recent incident happening in Mumbai which was sponsored by LeT which owes its allegiance to the ISI Pak's intelligence agency. Of course now given Pakistan's internal struggles with the snakes it raised has given it some international sympathy. But shouldn't national security be MMS' main priority?
So MMS takes a trip to Sharm-el-Sheikh to pow-wow with Gilani. But rather than raising hell with Gilani about inaction in investigation of the Mumbai attacks for close to a year, MMS comes back making a composite statement which says India and Pakistan can continue their diplomatic relations while Pak will search for the killers. WTF!
Here's your swine of the week.

While most media outlets have raised their voice against the passive stance of the Indian diplomats, the Chindu expresses anger that people are demanding action from an Indian government which got nothing out of Pakistan.

There is nothing in the language of the latest India-Pakistan joint statement to warrant the ill-informed cries of ‘sell-out’ that have rung out at home.

Here's another joke from the LiC;

While Pakistan has taken more meaningful action in the aftermath of Mumbai than it has perhaps taken in the past three decades of cross-border terrorism...

Hence the Jackass of the week is LiC.
(I regret that I have not been consistent in the past, but hope to make this a more regular feature again).