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India : Why US-Israel-India axis is welcome |
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| Author: idrw team | 24 June 2008 | Views: 515 |
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BY: Thestatesman
Comrade Karat perhaps believes he is being very crafty. He is being in fact too clever by half. To justify his party’s opposition to the Indo-US Nuclear Deal he has spoken of the danger arising from any strategic alliance with the US. He has done this by invoking the cause of the Palestinian people. He said: “The strategic alliances with the US and Israel are interconnected. To support the Palestinian cause it is important to disentangle India from this matrix.”
It is a popular line of argument. It is very clever as theory. It is quite stupid in practice. Theoretically what could be better than India unfettered by international alliances, morally strong, strategically weak, independent and totally non-aligned? Alas, in practice nothing could be worse. Pandit Nehru learnt this the hard way. After the humiliation suffered in 1962 at the hands of the Chinese he confessed in a tremulous voice over radio: “We had been living in an artificial world of our own creation”. That’s right. Now Comrade Karat wants us to live in a cuckoo land of his own perception.
Sweet to sour
Why is a US-Israel-India axis desirable? Because in the real world there is a US-Israel-China axis. It has dominated global affairs for the past three decades. This scribe has repeatedly described this trilateral alliance as the real axis of evil. Pakistan was the midwife that gave birth to this axis. US-China collaboration over Pakistan blocked the Soviet advance to the Indian Ocean. A nuclear Pakistan became the impregnable sanctuary for anti-Indian insurgents to bleed India and perpetuate Chinese hegemony in Asia. And a US-China alliance broke the Sino-Soviet alliance to change the world balance of power. At that time it made great strategic sense for America.
All round it was a sweet deal. But with the passage of time it began to sour. For decades it appeared so sweet to the US that it overlooked a continuing five to one trade deficit with China. US big business made quick profits by manufacture in China which offered cheap, virtually slave, labour. Now things have changed. Never mind if eighty per cent of China’s industry is owned by foreign capital. It is located on Chinese soil. On the ground it is at the mercy of the iron fisted Chinese dictatorship. And never mind if most Chinese exports to the US were low tech goods. The bulk of the exporting industry was owned by the People’s Liberation Army which used the profits to build and sustain the world’s largest army. After three decades of bleeding India through proxy nations now China can afford to flex its muscles against America.
So at last the Americans are getting worried. President Bush in his second term, egged on by US security interests, sought to undo the covert damage wrought on democratic India ~ the world’s only billion strong nation apart from China. As China and Pakistan clandestinely spread nuclear weapons and fomented terrorism, India received a thousand cuts. To all this, America turned a blind eye. Now if powerful sections in America and Israel are beginning to chafe over the results of their past misconceived policies, should India continue to sulk or enhance its own national interest?
Has the US decided to dump China? No way! US investment in China is too big. The potential of China’s economy is too great. The US simply wants to redress the balance of power in Asia. It seeks closer ties with India without weakening ties with China. What the Indian government must be very cautious about is the exact opposite of what worries Comrade Karat. The government must remain alert that closer Indo-US ties will not be at the cost of India’s interests to the benefit of China. It is entirely possible that there would be elements in the Chinese leadership reconciled to the emergence of India as an equally close ally of the US as China. But the preponderant view in China up till now is to deny India its legitimate space. An Indo-US-Israel axis could help dampen this hegemonic Chinese view.
And finally, there is the question of Israel. Like Pakistan, Israel is an artificially created nation state. Palestine was partitioned by colonial Britain a few months after the partition of India. It is possible that British Zionists welcomed India’s partition for creating a precedent that facilitated the partition of Palestine and the creation of Israel. Like Pakistan, Israel’s policies during the last six decades are open to serious criticism.
Israel has been too heavy handed with the Palestinians. Pakistan has resorted to insurgency and terrorism in Kashmir. On any objective assessment there was no provocation by India against Pakistan similar to what the wronged Palestinians offered to Israel. Like Pakistan, Israel seems obsessed with acquiring more land to ensure stability.
In fact both nations will achieve stability only through friendly relations with immediate neighbours. Perhaps both nations are paranoid because of their test-tube births. But both Israel and Pakistan have survived through three generations passionately committed to their nations. To contemplate the destruction of either nation in a fast changing world where national sovereignty is rapidly diminishing would be nothing less than insane.
So, does this mean that India should avoid relations with Israel? No. Does it mean that India should abandon the cause of an independent Palestine state? No. It means that India must bend its efforts to defuse crisis situations both in Israel and in Pakistan through just and principled diplomacy. America has deep emotional ties with Israel. Today if the emerging scenario persuades both nations to change their attitude towards India, it should be welcomed. As far as Comrade Karat’s objections are concerned, he appeared quite mute while China built its strength with Israeli help.
Arms supplier
For years Israel with US blessing was the biggest arms supplier to China. Only in recent years has the US started to pressure Israel to curtail military supplies to China. Responsible quarters have identified Israel as the crucial source for China’s nuclear breakthrough. Israel’s richest businessman, Shaul Eisenberg, a refugee given sanctuary in Shanghai during World War II, is thought to have been the conduit for passing nuclear know-how to China.
All things considered, if America and Israel change attitude to get closer to India, why should that be opposed? It would strengthen India. It would make China amenable to friendly relations with India on the basis of equality. Those who oppose an Indo-US-Israel strategic relationship are either ignorant of the total picture or are subverted. Comrade Karat can best decide in which category his party should be placed. |
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#1 Author: Jon (24 June 2008 14:45) |
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Nice article!
it clearly proves that how stipid that idiot bihari karat is? India should declare him "anti national", ban commie bastards and put this stupid man "karat bihari" behind bars or better, "HANG HIM". this brain-dead karat does not understand that communism has failed and is no answer to eradicate the poverty, what we generally see in bangladesh and bihar (possibly the 5th world if not 4th).
in this dog eat dog world, india should go ahead with nuke deal and enjoy the american hospitality especially if it could get it as a freeby. prosper economically thru america first, as did the east asian countries and then behave like china boys (muscle flexing). if it takes to sign the npt, india should go ahead and do it. fricking chinx are the biggest missile / nuke proliferators than rotten pakees. but no body points the finger on these chinx.
however, india must remain cautious of "selfish jews". another bastard race. jews are your friends as long they need you, once that is done, forget it, they can be your number one enemy beyond your imagination. and as far america, as long those dum republicans stay in power, milk america as did the japanese and "chinx"
wonder how david duke plans to get them?
Declare china the real threat to humanity and dethrone karat bihari, who is no good for india. |
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Need to wake up to the realities
http://www.hindu.com/2007/09/22/stories/2007092255261200.htm
Prabhudev Konana
The global success of “brand India” and continuous reinforcement of successes cloud many perceptions of reality. It is important for us to be more inquisitive about our claims of hackneyed success stories.
I had the privilege of listening to numerous presentations on India from business, government, and academic leaders. Most presentations are strikingly similar. There is excitement, optimism, and enthusiasm that bode well for India. But the global success of “brand India” and continuous reinforcement of successes cloud many perceptions of reality and fall into the trap that researchers call persuasion bias. Without adjusting for repetition of the same information, this persuasion bias continues to perpetuate and exacerbate certain fallacies and inconsistencies. Often, the facts are not consistent with the braggadocios. Further, leaders exhibit classic self-attribution bias that successes are due to their actions and failures are due to others like the NGOs, farmers, or society. This article is to question the myths and to wake up to the realities.
Fallacy of leapfrog
Leaders proclaim India’s strength lies in its ability to bypass industrial economy and leapfrog from an agricultural economy to a service-based economy. The supporting argument is that most developed countries are service-based economies. Unfortunately, there is a lack of awareness on how developed economies got there. Even worse is that they often cite how GE, IBM, and other leading companies make more significant profits and revenues from services than from selling tangible products. Although this sounds exciting for the believers, let us not lose sight of the incredible dependencies and blurring of boundaries between manufacturing and services of these firms. GE and IBM make money over the lifecycle of the products they sell since the initial cost is just a fraction of the total lifecycle value. GE makes little profits selling jet engines but reaps significant revenues and profits from servicing and upgrading those engines over the next 40 years. The same applies to IBM. Further, firms make money financing the purchase of their products; this applies to General Motors, GE or Dell. Without making tangible products, however, these firms have little to stand on.
We also hear that India can leapfrog to new technologies without having to deal with legacy issues. The rapid diffusion of cell phone is used to support the argument. But this argument is fragile and meaningless. Based on this argument, it is prudent to wait for another decade
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manmoahn singh msut be liilled immediately and so should be those traitors in the english media who are simply coolie and dogs of anglodsaxon masters and who want India sebeservient to americans.
the real traitors must be killed no point in discussion with thse bastards as they are so corrupt that they knowingly sell india cheap to the foreiners angloamerican interests and then label others traitors.
kill thse basatrds.
MANMOHAN SINGH MSUT BE KILLED NOW.AND SO SHOUDL THE TRAITORS IN iNDIA WHO WANT TO SELL INDIA CHEAP TO THE ANGLOAMERICAN INTERESTS AND THEN DARE CALL OTHERS TRAITORS.
may 25th, 2007. http://www.larouchepac.com/
LaRouche on Russian TV: "British Empire" Determined to have a war with Russia, China and India
May 25 (LPAC)--The impact of Lyndon LaRouche's visit to Moscow last week is still being felt, with repeat broadcasts of LaRouche's interview in Moscow May 16, to the economist Mikhail Khazin, host of the "A+ in Economics" weekly program on the Spas Channel, a satellite TV station linked with the Russian Orthodox Church. The interview first aired on Friday, May 18, and was repeated several times.
With "showdowns" looming between the Anglo-American-Euro bloc at the United Nations and Russia and China over Iran, and possibly over Kosovo, LaRouche identified the real war danger as coming from the British Empire--as he has described it--targeting Russia, China and India. LaRouche said:
kill thse traitors and folowers of treacherous manmohan singh who msut be tortured to death for hig treason agasint India.
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the indo nuclear del was done to seperate India from irana nd china so that freindhsip between russia india and china does not happen.
http://www.antiwar.com/prather/?articleid=13095
Condi also sent Stephen Rademaker to instruct the conferees about the need to replace the NPT – if not so "revised" – with President Bush’s Proliferation Security Initiative.
You probably never heard of Rademaker until he publicly "admitted" last year that the so-called U.S.-India Nuclear Deal he and Condi negotiated was really all about coercing India into voting "our way" on the IAEA Board against Iran.
You see, it is that U.S.-India Nuclear Deal which may well have the most serious long-term and disastrous consequences for the NPT nuke proliferation-prevention regime.
Condi had whizzed down to New Delhi to prevent India's finalizing technical and commercial contracts for a $4.5 billion Iran-Pakistan-India natural-gas pipeline that will provide Iranian natural gas mostly to India.
In return for India canceling the "peace pipeline," Condi held out the possibility that we would (a) lift sanctions imposed by Congress on India (as a result of the nuclear weapons tests India conducted in 1998) and on U.S. companies doing business with India, (b) supply India with the nuclear power plants that we had prevented Russia from supplying (and the fuel for them that we had prevented the Russians from supplying), and (c) get the Nuclear Suppliers Group to completely disregard guidelines on restrictions to be applied to NSG exports to India.
When details of what Condi had demanded of India leaked out, it very nearly brought down the Indian government.
And, it may yet.
But, even if the deal never gets done, the NPT-based nuke proliferation-prevention regime may have suffered irreparable damage.
And that, of course, is what the Cheney Cabal set out to do. |
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http://www.larouchepac.com/node/11008/print
" The British Plan To Recolonize The Subcontinent Is Gaining Ground
18 Jul 2008
This article appeared in the July 18, 2008 edition of Executive Intelligence Review.
The British Plan To Recolonize The Subcontinent Is Gaining Ground
by Ramtanu Maitra
The massive suicide bomb attack on July 7, which killed 41 people at the Indian Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, including the Indian military attaché and counselor, indicates the ruthlessness of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI)-British MI6-aided Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), or Pakistani Taliban, to break up Pakistan, and create a new, and unstable, nation bordering the resource-rich Central Asia and Iran. Although the Western media is keen to blame the “Taliban,” it is clear that the Afghan Taliban was not involved, and that it was the handiwork of the TTP.
A day earlier, on the first anniversary of the Pakistani Army's raid of Lal Masjid at the heart of Pakistan's capital, Islamabad, a suicide bomber blew himself up, killing at least 19 people, mostly police officers. On the same day the Indian Embassy was attacked, terror struck Pakistan's largest city, Karachi, six times within an hour, as unknown terrorists triggered a series of blasts that wounded over 50 people, including children and policemen. Karachi, the largest Pakistani port, is the main disembarkation station of nearly 70% of the supplies that go to Afghanistan by road to the battling U.S./NATO troops. The supplies pass through the famed Khyber Pass--a 30-mile stretch between the Khyber Hills. At the time of this writing, the Khyber Pass, and a part of Peshawar city, 22 miles east of the Pass, remains infested with militant local tribes working hand-in-glove with the TTP.
The only way to comprehend what is happening is to first step back, and look at the key geostrategic puppet-master in the region: the British Empire.
– British Geostrategy for the Subcontinent –
The British policy toward South Asia, and the Middle East as well, is uniformly colonial, and vastly different from that of the United States. Even today, when Washington is powered by people with tunnel vision, at best, the U.S. policy is not to break up nations, but to control the regime, or, as has become more prevalent in recent years, under the influence of the arrogant neocons, to force regime change. While this often creates a messy situation--for example, in Iraq--the U.S. would prefer to avoid such outcomes.
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