Notwithstanding the need to counter the dragon, shame on Subhramanyam for advocating servitude to the Yanks. Servitude to anybody does not behove a great civilization such as India. The Yanks need to understand this and accept India as an equal ally. The onus is clearly on the Yanks to overcome the deficit of trust, i.e. to prove that they can be trusted when it comes to India's security interests. For all his evil, Musharraf can teach Indian babudom a thing or two regarding "enlightened self interest". For example, Indian babudom could have made a lot of noise on the Iran/IAEA vote, as to how the muslim voters would be offended, how it would contravene non-alignment etc and then squeezed out India's inalienable right to test nukes in return for our vote against Iran. Instead of hard bargaining, what we saw was abject capitulation by our babus at Vienna.
The Sepoy Subhramanyam school of thought ends up sending further confusing signals to the Yanks, encouraging their intrinsic contempt for India and reinforcing the notion that Indians will crawl when asked to bend.
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Notwithstanding the need to counter the dragon, shame on Subhramanyam for advocating servitude to the Yanks. Servitude to anybody does not behove a great civilization such as India.
The Yanks need to understand this
and accept India as an equal ally.
The onus is clearly on the Yanks to overcome the deficit of trust, i.e. to prove that they can be trusted when it comes to India's security interests.
For all his evil, Musharraf can teach Indian babudom a thing or two regarding "enlightened self interest".
For example, Indian babudom could have made a lot of noise on the Iran/IAEA vote, as to how the muslim voters would be offended,
how it would contravene non-alignment etc and then squeezed out India's inalienable right to test nukes in return for our vote against Iran. Instead of hard bargaining, what we saw was abject capitulation by our babus at Vienna.
The Sepoy Subhramanyam school of thought ends up sending further confusing signals to the Yanks, encouraging their intrinsic contempt for India and reinforcing the notion that Indians will crawl when asked to bend.
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