February 10th
ram narayanan is an indefatigible proponent of US-India friendship.
i would like to believe what he says, but i think things are a lot bleaker for india.
there are only two paradigms that the us sees for india:
a. a competitor, which is not good, therefore keep it down by hook or by crook including containment, terrorism, and even the future (iraq-style and soon to be iran-style) military action against a 'rogue nuclear state'. stay posted for india to enter the 'rogue nation' list now that iraq is out and there is a vacancy. of course, the real rogue nations, china, pakistan and saudi arabia, will never be identified as such
b. a slave, which can be best be accomplised via large-scale conversion and brainwashing. there will also be plenty of good consumers for us corporations to dump unwanted goods on
to take point b further, the us has done a lot of stuff in afghanistan and central asia with an eye to one thing: to DENY the region's oil to china. this is almost as important to the us as it is to get hold of said oil.
similarly, the neocons are very keen to increase the numbers of christians, in particular to DENY converts to muslims. india is one of the best places to do the conversion, and the fact that those converts might be potential muslim converts is even more reason to focus on india as a 'numerical-target' country.
anyway, here's what ram narayanan said in the washington times.
THE WASHINGTON TIMES, FEBRUARY 9, 2005
Outside View: The U.S., India and China
By Ram NarayananOutside View Commentator
Buffalo, NY, Feb. 9 (UPI) -- The National Intelligence Council (NIC),
the think-tank of the Director of Central Intelligence, recently came
out with a study titled "Mapping the Global Future." Among other
things, the report forecasts the rise of India and China as potential
global powers by the year 2020. Of the two countries, only China,
whose GDP is predicted in the NIC document to overtake America's by
the year 2042, is clearly the aggressive competitor of the United
States...
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