US backs India, says Pak must eliminate terror

[LEGENDARY WARRIOR]

Don't you want to eliminate the taliban in your country?

sure we want to eliminate them. But the US has to understand our problems. . .

 

[Spring Onion]

Well of course we cannot be as rugged as some one who get there daily bread with the US tax payers money yet cannot show respect to the bread winners of there country.

Typical bharati BS. would you care to proof that we are getting dailu bread with US tax payer money

 

[LEGENDARY WARRIOR]

Well of course we cannot be as rugged as some one who get there daily bread with the US tax payers money yet cannot show respect to the bread winners of there country.

do some research boy. It is americans in Afghanistan who get 80% of their bread because we provide them route. . .

 

[Patrician]

do some research boy. It is americans in Afghanistan who get 80% of their bread because we provide them route. . .

So do your Generals.

 

[Imran Khan]

its USA dear there tune in Delhi always as india like and in islo they sing another song as pakistan like heheheheheh

 

[AMCA]

Typical bharati BS. would you care to proof that we are getting dailu bread with US tax payer money

Oh come on Pakistani, you know it.... Dont you have an essence of America in every bite you have.

 

[AZADPAKISTAN2009]

I just want to know how bad of a baseball pitcher you have to be to miss that slow pri000ck Bush even after throwing the shoe so damn close

May be some one in India will do something similar

 

[kugga]

This article must be under the thread "Stupid and funny from all over the world"

 

[Nelson]

do some research boy. It is americans in Afghanistan who get 80% of their bread because we provide them route. . .

Champ, in case you didn't know, the reason you provide them route because they pay you for your bread.

Just try saying NO to US for that route and then see what happens.

 

[AMCA]

do some research boy. It is americans in Afghanistan who get 80% of their bread because we provide them route. . .

You made WOT a business and the comedy is it all started from you by you and for you...

 

[AmberDutt]

This article must be under the thread "Stupid and funny from all over the world"

why?? Because it talks about Pakistan ??

 

[Nelson]

why?? Because it talks about Pakistan ??

 

[ganesh177]

America sings only one song to pakistan "do more".
India sings only one song to america "do more to pakistan".
Pakistan sings only one song to taliban "i wish u could do more "

 

[kugga]

why?? Because it talks about Pakistan ??

haan talks about Pakistan and asks Pakistan to do things which they are already doing quite efficiently ....
awain rola daala hua hai hota hota khud sey bhi kuch nai Pakistan pay awain baatein.....

 

[zombieland]

The author suffers from comical delusion. He is afraid to take any stance on either country except China, which he alleviates to the level of god kingdom.

However, while making such hideous clams he does forget the universal truth that every beginning has an END. Higher the growth ... steeper the fall...

STATUTORY WARNING:- This article is the author own interpretation and should be read for fictional purpose only.

Ravi Shankar: Hillary Clinton should be fed noodle soup in New Delhi

Monday, 18 July 2011
By Ravi Shankar

Empires do not have friends. They only have allies.

America is the only empire left after the Soviet Union collapsed. China is a perennial empire in waiting: perhaps it heeds history’s tutorials that it is better to be an imperial work in progress, the promise of menace and power a deterrent not only to the rest of the world but also to itself. Revolution may devour its children, but empires get devoured by theirs.

The Middle East is the contemporary buffet table where US foreign policy and business interests have become a moveable feast, put together by both the chefs and the waiters. India, another wannabe empire might want to learn from America’s unlearnt lessons.

Hillary Rodham Clinton is doing the rounds in New Delhi, pushing the security interests of the US empire after Obama’s business pitch last year flopped. Neither Obama nor Hillary are particularly endearing characters, they don’t have George Bush’s goofy charm nor Bill Clinton’s powerful charisma. Bush saw the world in terms of Texan simplicity and oil; it worked for the Indian government with whom he shared a rapport that went beyond mere diplomacy. Hillary Clinton is in New Delhi basically as a ploy to worry Pakistan.
It won’t work.

Pakistan is too worried about its own collapsing future to bother about America’s. The friendship they shared once was only united by a mutual dislike of India and America’s fear of the Soviets.

India and America share a distrust that goes back decades, to the time of Jawaharlal Nehru and John Fitzgerald Kennedy. When he visited Washington in 1961, the 72-year-old Nehru and the 42-year-old Kennedy almost became friends. But Nehru was unwilling to take a public stance on issues the US wanted it to: nuclear testing, Berlin, Laos; the issues of its times.

India’s friendship with the Soviet Union was far more important than the rosebud Jackie gave the old premier and the visits to her pet cemetery. China was a bigger threat than Pakistan, something that may have been proved right when India lost the war in 1962 to China.

Nehru insisted on a moratorium on nuclear testing by the US though he was personally mortified by Russia which was doing the same. Russia was a friend and the America only a possible ally.

Then America’s enemy was Khruschev and the Communism he stood for, a man who seems a rather gruff gentleman in a bad suit in retrospect compared to Osama and al Zawahiri. The Soviet empire collapsed a few decades after Nehru died, taking away the raison d’être for the Americans to continue their proxy war in Afghanistan, being fought with the ISI’s help: little did they anticipate 9/11 when Rambo was parachuting into the Hindu Khush. Now Rambo is going home, the debris of his legacy strewn around the mountain slopes where the Taliban now ambush their old friends and creators.
Allies hate empires.

Is it any wonder that Pakistan has turned against the US now? Or that many of America’s allies in the Middle East are wary of it? Hosni Mubarak’s abandonment by its old ally that had suddenly woken up to Egypt’s prisons must certainly be weighing on the minds of many of America’s allies. America doesn’t care how many Pakistanis or Afghans die, it doesn’t care how many Iraqis perish. To paraphrase FDR, America is an s.o.b but its own s.o.b.

So, Hillary will achieve little in the balancing game in the Subcontinent. India senses that the US is a declining empire as it dreams of becoming one itself. Through the centuries, the Indian generic memory of being part of many empires -- from Mughal to British -- perhaps drives this dream. Imitation is also the best form of flattering oneself.

India has much to learn from China. China will always be an empire of the imagination, far more terrifying than any that has ever ruled the earth. The Treasure Fleet of its famous eunuch admiral Cheng Ho in the 15th century that sailed to India with dreams of conquest was probably the last time it wanted to be an empire in the Roman or Ottoman sense. However, China’s introspective understanding that strength lies within is its imperial qui.

It’s the right time for Hillary to be fed some noodle soup in New Delhi.

(Ravi Shankar is Executive Editor of New Indian Express in Delhi. He can be reached at: ravi@newindianexpress.com)