The Irony of being a Soldier

When the government policies are not good and also diplomacy fails then it is not the politicians or foreign civil servants who suffer but the soldiers of Armed forces who suffer and pay the price of their failure with their lives. Nations go to war not because armed forces want it but they are ordered to do so by the elected representative and their selected and appointed foreign diplomats did not perform their duty satisfactorily and the armed forces are asked to go and rectify their mistake by paying the price with the blood of soldiers.  Sometimes they tie the hands of armed forces by their previous agreements and treaties like in the present case of Galvan valley and make them look like worst than the police force who at last can carry and wield lathis while tacking a civil riot..The soldiers get two days of fame, some slogan shouting and attention on TV and maybe a few medals but then it is the life time suffering for the families including in some cases ridicule and humiliation. But nobody asks the question as to what lead to this failure and fix the blame correctly.

If the financial institutions fail due to the policies of government and failure of watchdogs like RBI and SEBI then it is not they get blamed but the it is the public that suffers. Government gets kudos by pumping money and promising public that their interest will be looked after by using the public tax paid money. Our tax money is given to financial institution for their mistakes and public suffers. But the real culprits are never found and punished.

In case of natural calamities like floods,earthquake, drought etc and man made calamities like riots, major arson and looting, terrorist issues, it is again that the armed forces that get called but no action against the administration and institutions that failed or did not do their duty properly and allowed this situation to develop.

Politicians get elected again and civil servants get promotions, financial institution get a healing dose of tax paid money and the public is left holding the empty sack and the armed forces suffer human lives.

End of story. To be repeated again and again as we do not learn from the past.