With clowns like these presiding over the highest echelons of the nation's National security establishment, is it any surprise that India is the laughing stock of the world? Even puny Bangladesh feels emboldened to openly issue dark threats to the supposed regional hegemon. It may actually be a blessing in disguise that India is not a permanent member of the UN Security Council. With senile jesters like MK Narayanan, K Subramanyam, Brajesh Mishra etc, it would be converted into a Nehruvian "debating society" in no time.
"New Delhi, July 12 (PTI) India today said it has a fair amount of intelligence about Pakistan's involvement in the Monday's suicide attack on its embassy in Kabul.
"We not only suspect but we have a fair amount of intelligence (on the involvement of Pakistan)," National Security Advisor M K Narayanan told Times Now news channel when asked whether India suspects Pakistan's involvement in the attack.
The NSA said there was a need to retaliate to such acts of terror. "I think we need to pay back in the same coin. We are quite clear in our mind," he said.
When asked who should be paid back, he replied, "Those who are responsible." Narayanan said India-Pakistan relations were sought to be improved through a comprehensive dialogue mechanism.
"The anti-terror mechanism was one piece of this picture. The hope was that in course of time both sides would share whatever information they have and come up with a holistic idea of what was going on," he said.
"Talk-talk is better than fight-fight. But it hasn't worked so far. In some way, we haven't arrived at the decision that we should go for fight-fight so let talk-talk continue for the moment," Narayanan said. PTI"
Who are you kidding? Will that moment ever come, Narayanan?
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Friday , July 11 , 2008
Sangh’s friends of deal
SANJAY K. JHA
New Delhi, July 10: The BJP’s dilemma over pulling down the government on the Indo-US nuclear agreement has prompted a section of party leaders to look for “hidden persuaders” who are working overtime to protect the deal.
Apart from the names of some important BJP leaders, ideologues and former ministers, the list of pro-deal “suspects” includes even senior RSS leaders.
Sources said Ved Nanda, a professor with the University of Denver in the US and a Sangh parivar member, has succeeded in convincing many senior RSS leaders on the necessity of the deal. They said the recent foreign tours of some RSS and BJP leaders are being viewed in this light.
Nanda entered the RSS through the Vishwa Hindu Parishad and gained prominence by launching the Hindu Swayamsevak Sangh (HSS) in the US in 1989. But the most striking feature, RSS sources claimed, is that he is close to US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice.
Apart from being an influential Hindu protagonist, Nanda is also known in RSS circles as Rice’s teacher. Rice went to study at the University of Denver and Nanda teaches at the John Evans School of Law at the university, where her father was also employed.
Nanda has been coming to India to attend conferences organised by the RSS. “Nanda has a close association with top RSS leaders like Mohan Bhagwat, Madandas Devi, S. Gurumurthy and Ram Madhav,” a source said, claiming that the professor had been pushing for the nuclear deal from the very beginning.
The pro-deal section of the parivar believes that the BJP has “become a prisoner of dogmatism” and now “many leaders are feeling suffocated because of the party’s strident opposition to the nuclear deal”.
Another source said: “When L.K. Advani attempted a course correction, he had the blessings of some RSS leaders and a large section of younger BJP leaders and a few apolitical Right-wing ideologues. But RSS chief Sudarshan and a section of the BJP stood firm. The pro-deal leaders also yielded because the government had not done enough to take the Opposition on board. Otherwise, the BJP would have taken a different position.”
Many BJP leaders conceded in private that “the American lobby” was still active and the leadership resisted immense pressure to alter its stand.
Now that the deal is almost done, the pro-US camp in the Sangh parivar is not very upset.
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1080711/jsp/nation/story_9533437.jsp#
"Talk-talk is better than fight-fight"
Not when you are dealing with Taqiya/Kithman practising Mohammedans!
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