tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4704148890264843595.post714608567030431866..comments2024-03-27T03:46:07.097-07:00Comments on Raman's strategic analysis: WHAT I CAUTIONED ABOUT OBAMA BEFORE HE BECAME THE PRESIDENTB.RAMANhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12278000644746170031noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4704148890264843595.post-49785248918393473282010-04-19T21:48:34.353-07:002010-04-19T21:48:34.353-07:00Ambi,
"Next time when you Americans go for e...Ambi,<br /><br />"Next time when you Americans go for election. Apply your brains"<br /><br />What is your take on a McCain/Palin administration?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12865474944171616991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4704148890264843595.post-86344982339893209162010-04-17T21:16:53.182-07:002010-04-17T21:16:53.182-07:00Hi anonymous, thanks for contributing to the blog....Hi anonymous, thanks for contributing to the blog.<br /><br /> As apparent being an NRI you do not know ground realities & hence unfortunately naïve & immature. If you & other Americans are believing the Propaganda machine run by White House & American Media Then hee hee hee! haa haa haa! Hoo hoo hoo! What else I can say. <br /><br /> My dear friend this war will not end after America departs. New players will emerge; No one can afford to ruin their future just because Americans could not overcome few thousand armed illiterate villagers. My God in that case even Royal Bhutanese Army can defeat Americans.<br /><br /> You said Americans need Pakistanis for their help in WOT. You are a biggest fool if you are buying that line. No dear friend no. If I am a president of USA I ll say to Pakistanis, fair enough as you are not helping me, I am quitting the region. Then what? Surely Afghanistan is going to call their other friends like Indians, Iran n Russia, as it was before US attack, (and that course will resume soon irrespective of American stand.) That is a hell for Pakistan Its worst nightmare n a reality soon. Pakistanis need Americans n not vice versa. Is your President saying that? NO NO NO. Why he is not saying that. Ask him if you are allowed to ask.<br /><br /> About immaturity of Obama in handling the diplomatic matters, after Bibi’s tight slap Openly, his another mistake (rather blunder), Coming to Afghanistan secretly informing the President of Afghanistan just one hour before landing. What arrogance! What was so special that he could not have talked on phone with Pre. Karzai. No my dear friend he wanted to show that he is the boss, n Afghanistan is his colony where he can come n go any time he want without properly informing the head of that country. That’s where he has gone horribly wrong. How will Americans feel if Putin comes to US informing Obama only one hour before landing? Fool fool fool. Tell him that though Afghanistan n India (unfortunately) are neighbors of Pakistan, they are not same. Show those power plays to Pakistanis. They buy those games. Not here.<br /><br /> My dear friend though China is your biggest creditor, that does not make America subservient to China, so as though US n Europe are biggest contributors for Afghanistan, that shld not undermine the Kabul. If you cant respect others don’t expect respect from others. So get your facts. US needs Afghanistan n Karzai n not vice versa. I think Obama shld share this reality with his people. What a clown! Next time when you Americans go for election. Apply your brains.ambihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09709973254351931979noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4704148890264843595.post-76536123779139777812010-04-17T17:55:17.181-07:002010-04-17T17:55:17.181-07:00This is a half-correct post. Obama did offer empty...This is a half-correct post. Obama did offer empty and perfunctory praise for India before the election, so I was prepared for the tepid relations with India after his election.<br /><br />However, how come B Raman does not talk about HRC's role as the Secretary of State? How much "influence" do Indians have with a supposed India-lover like her? <br /><br />Raman needs to understand that W Bush's policies decimated the economy of the USA, and for that reason primarily is why Obama was elected. I mean, for goodness sake, doesn't Raman know the basic issues facing America?<br /><br />Obama was the one being berated by the McCain camp for "naivete" when during the campaign Obama was advocating US incursion into Pakistan in hot pursuit of terrorists, a policy that Obama has delivered on.<br /><br />I agree with the other poster that India behaves like a beggar when it talks like other countries "owe" India something just because India is so highly principled. And B Raman is a loud one at that posture. His recent columns in India Abroad about China being favored by the US sound like a child crying about some other playmate having won a new ball. Since Raman writes of Jimmy Carter's naivete, let's talk about that. I find his columns in India Abroad technically sophisticated, but also demonstrating the fecklessness of Indian intelligence when it comes to social engagement, guile, and quick and critical thinking when dealing with the West. India sends educated, erudite, bright but also meek and soft-spoken people to represent it abroad. (When a sophisticated individual like Shashi Tharoor makes a joke, those same Indians want his head.)<br /><br />One thing I know as an Indian-born American citizen is that Obama is a political animal that relishes the game, and India hasn't shown any willingness to engage in it. How about if India offers America help in logistics in keeping supplies flowing to Afghanistan? Pakistani territory is vital for the US keep its troops supplied. India needs to think of the US as a customer, and find out what that customer needs that India can supply and Pakistan cannot!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12865474944171616991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4704148890264843595.post-60192369507463568792010-04-17T10:21:28.665-07:002010-04-17T10:21:28.665-07:00Obama Obama!
Yes Uncle Sam?
Fooling American'...Obama Obama!<br /><br />Yes Uncle Sam?<br /><br />Fooling American's?<br /><br />No Uncle Sam!<br /><br />Telling lies?<br /><br />No Uncle Sam!<br /><br />Open your Past!<br /><br />Ha Ha Ha!!!ambihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09709973254351931979noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4704148890264843595.post-29338850342175331872010-04-14T07:38:19.190-07:002010-04-14T07:38:19.190-07:00I was just thinking about your today’s blog sirji....I was just thinking about your today’s blog sirji. And now I am getting ‘it’ bit by bit. Man of your stature won’t point fingers at someone (& that to President of US) so openly without proper investigation.<br /><br /> ………“As I read about Obama’s visit to Pakistan in the 1980s, I could not help thinking of dozens of things. Of the Afghan jihad against communism. Of the fascination of many Afro-Americans for the jihad”……….<br /><br /> Bloody hell! That means, if I am not wrong, you must have investigated about his past. Don’t you? Your sources must have given you lot of information regarding him. Oh shit! I wish you could share it with us. I would really like to know. It ld be really interesting.<br /><br /> Now I am getting the whole link. Why US is not sending its forces in North Waziristan? Why US is still supporting Pakistan, even though Pakistan is killing US soldiers in Afghanistan through talib proxies?<br /><br /> Ho Ho Ho! It’s really a weird weird world. Too cool sir ji! I am not only your fan but a 1.5 ton Ac.ambihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09709973254351931979noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4704148890264843595.post-8972308890064058842010-04-14T03:11:00.626-07:002010-04-14T03:11:00.626-07:00So what has India done for it's great ally, th...So what has India done for it's great ally, the US? Pakistan has gone so far as allow bombing of it's own territory. We cannot and will not top that.<br />From the Obama administration's point of view it should be apparent who is willing to totally bend over for the United Stated of America.<br />We should stop whining and be proud of our independent foreign policy, although it does have a few downsides.<br /> <br />About the only thing we really want from the US is Headley. It should be made clear that 26/11 will be perceived by Indians as an act of terror by an American agent, which will put unbearable strain on US-India relations.bookzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10498156790382629217noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4704148890264843595.post-23392675048948185772010-04-14T02:27:39.304-07:002010-04-14T02:27:39.304-07:00Icarus has articulated it well.We should pursue ou...Icarus has articulated it well.We should pursue our interests and they are permanent.<br />Some how Foreign Policy always had a 'romantic and fatalistic' tone to it.<br />It feels sad to read tweets of many of the experts, they have tinge of sadness and help lessness in it.<br />It is only sad that we are not able to harness the wisdom of our own people and experts and view every one thru the jaundiced eye of party politics. Our policy and objectives are now being decided in the cacophonous monologues of TV studio decided .Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13438407504611064227noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4704148890264843595.post-92098845034134721172010-04-14T00:51:25.540-07:002010-04-14T00:51:25.540-07:00Due to short-sighted foreign policy India is left ...Due to short-sighted foreign policy India is left with no stead-fast long-term friends...only stead-fast long-term enemies.Wikihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11161119866067734752noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4704148890264843595.post-19983499942216286722010-04-13T23:30:48.746-07:002010-04-13T23:30:48.746-07:00Indian foreign policy failures are its own creatio...Indian foreign policy failures are its own creation; it’s not a republican or democrat in the white house that should take the blame for the Indian short sightedness in matters of strategic interest. If past has to indicate anything it is America always had permanent interests and never permanent friends. They left Pakistan high and dry in 1992 war after the Afghanistan was over and the collapse of the U.S.S.R. It was Bill Clinton who refused to intervene on the behalf of Pakistan during the Kargil war in 1999. I am sure there are two sides to the story, but the point I am trying to make here is as any powerful nation, America will move when its interests are threatened. Indian minister rightly remarked that Indian foreign policy is more like a moralistic commentary. It lacks the long term vision and works as if the world ‘owes’ it to India. A part of this attitude can be explained partly due centuries of subjugation and the ‘fashion’ in which India was born. Its but natural Pakistan would have been the natural choice of Americans in the War in Afghanistan. It’s not just the geographical proximity to Afghanistan but also the control and contacts the Pakistani establishment had with the Al-Qaeda and Taliban. They have done the American dirty work in the past (during the Mujahedeen conflict) and thus form a natural ally. It hurt the great Indian pride when Bush chooses the Pakistanis over the Indians. Indians were reduced to a minority player in the region as she had supported the northern alliance which lost the war to Taliban. The Indian influence was considerably reduced after the killing of Masood towards the end of 2001. In a region where Indians do not have many friends, her position was further weakened when she voted against Iran at the IAEA in the November2009. It’s only fair that Pakistan to extract ‘pound of flesh’ for all the work it is doing for the Americans. It’s all but natural that it will use it against India, which it considers a natural enemy. I think all this hue and cry about American aid being used against India is a little too late and very misplaced now. Indians should have seen this coming and make provisions way back in 2001. Indian behavior and manner of approach comes across as a bunch of school children squabbling over who got what and then running to complain to the one who gave it in the first place. Take a leaf out of Chinese foreign policy. They wait and watch and one day you realize they have gone and brought a ‘mining interests’ in a country. Unlike the Indians they are not easy to placate and are very clear about their objective. It’s understandable how America has a very different approach to work with them, due to economic reasons. They know how to use ‘leverage’. It was the Indian media that went gung-ho over the election of Obama. It’s was the Indian media that made him a rock star for Indian people. Somewhere the Indians were also justifying their guilt of being repressed and not have done enough for themselves. The Chinese response was balanced in their appreciation and election of Obama to the highest office. India created the Kashmir problem and now goes running to every forum blaming Pakistan for not doing enough. Indians had the leverage to get it sorted out decades ago in 1971, when she won a decisive war with considerable territory and POW. Pakistan had lost half its territory, almost its entire navy and over 100K of its forces was taken as POW. Kashmir is that troubled legacy that the present and future generations are paying a price. The same applies to the Chinese; the forward policy initiated with Nehru led to the culmination of Indo-Sino war in 1962 which was a national humiliation for Indians. The points here are having clear strategic and tactical objective, irrespective of a republican or a democrat in the white house. Pak-china will grow; they are sovereign nations with sovereign interests. Develop capabilities to counter it. The old way of looking and analyzing is long gone. Finally, as Roosevelt said, talk slowly and carry a big stick.Icarus Invictushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13462246444790732410noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4704148890264843595.post-17519322934658671092010-04-13T22:25:17.640-07:002010-04-13T22:25:17.640-07:00oops! i wrote Peace instead of piece. sorry.oops! i wrote Peace instead of piece. sorry.ambihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09709973254351931979noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4704148890264843595.post-74432501519037405812010-04-13T21:59:53.812-07:002010-04-13T21:59:53.812-07:00Great peace of writing sir! It is as if you had se...Great peace of writing sir! It is as if you had seen it happening right before your eyes. You had predicted the future. I am your fan. It is happening as you have written here. Keep it coming sir ji! Kudos to you!<br /> Poor Americans! They are fooled right in front of their eyes.ambihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09709973254351931979noreply@blogger.com