nov 3rd, 2008
yes, it's not that we love/d bush, just that obama seems even worse
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From: Brahma Chellaney
Date: Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 6:50 PM
Subject: Liberation from Bush
To: brahmac@msn.com
End of a dangerous era
Liberation from Bush
With the end of the loathed Bush era, it is curtains for America's neocons. But what about Indian neocons who hailed the Bush Doctrine, cheered on the invasion of Iraq, advocated the dispatch of Indian forces there, pushed for aligning Indian policy with the misguided Bush stance on Pakistan, Iran and Burma, and want Indian troops in Afghanistan?
If there is anyone who claims to have got a sense of Bush's soul, it is Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, now preparing for his last Bush White House visit. Singh looked into Bush's eyes and ostensibly read three words: love for India. History may spell those words differently: trouble for India.
Brahma Chellaney
http://chellaney.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!4913C7C8A2EA4A30!888.entry
3 comments:
I don't love Bush - but Brahma (whom I always admire) has really dumped on the guy in this piece. I am happy to see Bush go, but am alarmed to see Obama to be honest. When you try to be all things to all people - you end up being nothing to anybody. Manmohan is a living example of exactly that phenomenon. He told Bush that everyone in India loved him (Bush). I don't know what the basis of that was. More recently he has said he wants to "insulate" India's economy from the global economy. He started life as a socialist in the "Planning commission", found that he liked "globalization" when he was finance minister* - and now back to "insulation" when PM. The guy actually does not believe in anything
* - Manmohan is wrongly credited with the economic reforms of the early 90's when it was actually Narasimha Rao who used Manmohan as a Mukhauta to undo the Nehruvian legacy
Guys, frankly I wasn't terribly impressed with Brahma's castigation of Bush, when we Indians haven't even conducted any real cross-border strikes against Pakistan ourselves. Brahma is sneering at Bush for invading Iraq, but what the hell have we done? I've never really even heard Brahma's plan on how to overcome our security problems. Attacking someone's plan without offering one's own alternative is something that Democrats like to do.
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