brahma: Double truth comes out

apr 26th, 2009

what a time to suck up to the yanks, manmohan! the yanks are being eclipsed, so do think of more than your numbered swiss account, will you? don't hitch india's star to the yanks so slavishly!

without question, manmohan is an even worse prime minister than the great jawaharlal. jawaharlal was an idiot, manmohan knows what he is doing. 

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From: Brahma Chellaney

* Hillary Clinton says reason for India's inaction against Pakistan after Mumbai is: "We worked very hard ... to prevent India from reacting."  That admission explains why Manmohan Singh did not take the smallest of small steps against Pak, even as a symbolic expression of outrage.

 

* Gen. Petraeus admits Holbrooke's "portfolio very much includes India," and that Holbrooke and he are in constant touch with Indian officials.

 

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4/25/2009

 

At a Congressional hearing on Friday, Secretary of State Clinton said there have already been a number of high-level discussions, including between the U.S president and the Indian PM, on the sidelines of the G-20 summit, in London, ''raising the issue of how India can do more to tamp down any reaction, on any front, like Mumbai could have provoked.''

''We worked very hard, as did the prior administration, to prevent India from reacting. But we know that the insurgents and al Qaeda and their syndicate partners are pretty smart. They are not going to cease their attacks, inside India, because they are looking for exactly the kind of reaction that we all hope to prevent,'' Clinton said.

''So we do have a lot of work to do, with the Indian government, to make sure that they continue to exercise the kind of restraint they showed after Mumbai, which was remarkable, especially given the fact that it was the political season,'' she added.

 

 

India Part of Holbrooke's Portfolio: Petraeus

4/25/2009 1:44 AM ET

The commander of the U.S. central command has said that India is part of the "portfolio" of Richard Holbrooke, the special American representative for Pakistan and Afghanistan, reports say.

"There are people who have rightly said that ambassador Holbrooke's title should be Afghanistan, Pakistan and India," General David Petraeus told a Congressional committee, in response to a question from a lawmaker.

"Now, let me just tell you, his portfolio very much includes India and in fact, the Central Asian states and the other neighbors there," the four-star general said, adding both he and Holbrooke had met with top Indian officials and have been in constant touch with them.