India:An aspiring world leader

Largest domocracy in world ,permanent member of United Nation ,Big player in world trade ,own distinct culture,secular,one of fastest growing economies and what not,everything seems to suggest that india deserves to be given permanent membership of U.N security coucil .But one must be aware that power brings with it certain responsibilities.Are we ready to take decisions concerning other countries? consider for example our own neighbourhood . Pakistan, srilanka, bangladesh, nepal,all are troubled in some or other way but we don't have any stand on them.We should be very clear of our stand on world issues ,before we decide to be in the race for getting VETO. Pick any situation and some how we always seem to be confused as to what to say and what to do.Let us ,for example ,consider certain situations. SRILANKA:when their PM comes to india we ensure him of our full co operation .clearly LTTE is an terrorist organisation but we in our country have large tamil population.,so we choose not get involved. PAKISTAN : we always yall at highest pitch ,about pak sponsred terror through pok whenever there are blasts in delhi,mumbai or somewhere else.surely we can't take any action against terror camps in pok ,as pak has time and again warned of nuking anyone who threatens it.we don't have any national policy for terrorists ,even after facing it for decades. PALESTINE:we support rights of people of palestine but want to have good relations with israel as well. IRAN:we fought for our rights to use nuclear technology for decades but backed when it came to fighting for others. There are quite afew examples of india's undecided and spontaneous foriegn policy.We always seem to be reacting to situations rather than creating them. biggest reason for such dubious policy is india's domestic politics .Our politicians, and we have so many of them,always seem to be preparing to bring the govt. down.If govt. indulges itself in international politics ,ignoring complex regional and national politics,it might find itself in minority the next day.The day a govt. forms ,people start to talk when it will come down. If we can't have some sure foriegn plicy now,when we have a PM who has nothing to do with politics and is argubly the cleanest PM india has had,then we can never have one.These are clear signs that we are a long way to present strongly to the world an india that is sure and firm on international relations and conflicts.we all know india can do it, but how long will it take is the big question.