Comments on: Blame it on Lax Indica

By: gbz

gbz — Sat, 02 May 2009 14:35:14 +0000

great post. Though i’m not sure the criticism of H.Min.Chidoo is fully justified. In the give and take of diplomacy it makes sense to make public your displeasure about a competing power interfering in your legitimate sphere of influence, assuming you intend to do the same to them in the future. But then again, given our history, we are unlikely to needle china in any way, so yes, it does make us look amateurish.

by the way, am i the only one finding it odd that it was the home min, not the foreign minister saying this, who’s portfolio does SL fall into?

By: Nagarajan Sivakumar

Nagarajan Sivakumar — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 22:48:10 +0000

“Considering that the Americans have stopped talking of grooming India to a superpower status, I believe they too see what’s coming there way and how they are going to deal with it. And certainly it ain’t us.”
Unfortunately, super powers cannot be groomed into status – they assert the status themselves by projecting their power.

India’s idea of power is to become a permanent member of the UN with no clear cut positions on the issues of the day, other than garbled language about peace, prosperity etc.

Looking at the crooks and liars and clowns who want to be the next PM, one can safely say that the next Administration is going to let India suffer even bigger losses of influence.

The Taliban has now parked itself within 60 miles of IslamaBAD that has made the US doubt the viability of Pakistan in the long term. While we are busy with month long elections.

I SHUDDER at the thought of any of these clowns being PM when the military jihadi complex in Pakistan offically take their masks off and declare that they are both the same.

Forget China, for now – Pakistan is the bigger source of danger.

By: socal

socal — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 21:24:45 +0000

I agree with most of your contention here, except that India can hold on to it’s own even if there were political will. With a rival who’s constantly leaping is holding a possible option? They’ll step on us whenever there is conflicting interest, which means we can at most influence our slide and nothing more.

Some day China will have to get into an arms race since it desires to race to the top. This cat and mouse game of exploiting weakness can only carry them so far. Considering that the Americans have stopped talking of grooming India to a superpower status, I believe they too see what’s coming there way and how they are going to deal with it. And certainly it ain’t us.

By: Manu

Manu — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 21:24:02 +0000

Oh! Nitin the criticism and indignation is the policy.

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By: Atlantean

Atlantean — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 15:02:23 +0000

And for several parties, foreign policy consists of hating USA, and that’s all.

By: AG

AG — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 09:31:37 +0000

Very well written.

My compliments.