{"id":190303,"date":"2009-12-11T18:16:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-11T23:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/12\/11\/a-failing-state-with-nuclear-weapons\/"},"modified":"2009-12-11T18:16:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-11T23:16:00","slug":"a-failing-state-with-nuclear-weapons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/12\/11\/a-failing-state-with-nuclear-weapons\/","title":{"rendered":"A Failing State With Nuclear Weapons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img46.imageshack.us\/img46\/8218\/nabc668indians200912101.gif\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" \/>No, I don&#8217;t mean Pakistan, I mean India, where <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB126046136142985757.html\">they have just carved up the province of Andhra Pradesh<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It appears to be political pandering to a coalition partner, but it also sounds a lot like a nation that will soon be joining Pakistan in having issues with its territorial integrity:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>The Indian government agreed to carve a separate state out of the southern Indian province of Andhra Pradesh, which includes the information-technology capital of Hyderabad, following days of violent protests.<\/p>\n<p>The government&#8217;s unexpected decision, which could spur social unrest and separatist demands in other regions, faces legislative hurdles &#8212; and prompted 83 of Andhra Pradesh&#8217;s 295 legislators to say they would resign in protest.<\/p>\n<p>Hyderabad has been hit by protests from supporters of K. Chandrashekar Rao, who heads the Telangana Rashtra Samithi political party dedicated to establishing a separate state for the Telangana region of Andhra Pradesh, which includes Hyderabad.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is not the sort of thing that a cohesive nation state does.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully, this is not the beginning of a downward trajectory for India as a nation-state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, I don&#8217;t mean Pakistan, I mean India, where they have just carved up the province of Andhra Pradesh. It appears to be political pandering to a coalition partner, but it also sounds a lot like a nation that will soon be joining Pakistan in having issues with its territorial integrity: The Indian government agreed &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1136,1009,1020,1151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-government","category-legislation","category-south-asia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190303"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}