Quote Originally Posted by anonymouse View Post
So the bottom line here is the Partitioning of India may well have been the worst thing the British could ever have done. It's impossible to turn back the clock, but it's worth remembering this sort of history in any debates about the Middle East. It's also worth remembering that India, the world's largest democracy, in run for all intents and purposes by an Italian Catholic woman (Sonja Ghandi). I can't imagine such a woman ever elected to run Pakistan or even Britain or the US.
Sonja Ghandi isn't the Prime Minister, Manmoham Singh is, Ghandi left due to a lot of death threats and claims that she wasn't a true Indian.

And you're right, the partition was useless.