Dr. Tellis is a person I have had the privilege of knowing for four decades -- in Mumbai and in the U.S. Apart from being a brilliant man, he is one of the sincerest and most honest individuals I have known, and has done more for both his countries than any single person I am aware of. I am proud to consider Dr. Tellis a friend, and a fellow Indian. If he is an American citizen, that is a choice I respect, and I suggest you do too. At least he has contributed significantly to the land of his birth, and the land of his adoption, unlike the millions of NRIs who have lived off the fat of both lands. I do not see what moral authority prompts the ignorant rants from the readers of this website. You'd be better served to focus on the content of Dr. Tellis' extremely significant contribution to India-US relations.
It seems like Mr. Tellis has an identity crisis since he has forgotten his motherland. I would advice you to first get handle of your roots and then decide who you should be negotiating for. Because whatever you are doing right now translates into treason.
I would like to thank rediff for publishing this interview without defending bloody US-diplomat. I appreciate Mr. Singhs (interviewer) courage. Media should do patriotic job like this to show the real faces of enemies and traitors. Shame on Ashley Tellis!
I want to state that the remarks attributed to me in this interview do not accurately reflect the discussion with Onkar Singh. Citing a faulty tape recorder, Mr. Singh did not record my comments but transcribed our fifteen-minute conversation into the staccato sentences posted on this website. I did not, for example, ever assert, "We got more from the government of Manmohan Singh." What I did say was that the Singh government sought more from the United States than the NDA government, namely full civil nuclear cooperation and, accordingly, made appropriate commitments towards that end. Similarly, the question, "What is it that you wanted from the Vajpayee government but could not get?" was never asked of me. "What did the Vajpayee government offer in 2002?" is the question I responded to. The same goes for the discussion on the United States, China, and India, where I denied that the United States needed a nuclear deal to buy Indias support against China or that containment of China was current U.S. policy. It is indeed unfortunate that Mr. Singh chose to post his redaction of my remarkswhich is different, both in content and tonerather than my original answers in full.
After reading these articles, I think, their Indian parents should have killed them instead of bringing them up and make them US citizens. I lose interest in US now, after seeing these coolies sucking upto white americans. By the way, do you guys belong to forward caste communities??? Don't you feel ashamed to call their/US achievements as your achievements and basking in the glory of the america, which was not due to you but by the original americans.
The interview does not inform us why Vajpayee did not sign the Nuclear deal. But Mr. Tellis does inform us, that the US does not need India. How haughty can one one get? Did the UPA government beg the US to sign the Nuclear deal? Hope we have not compromised our security with this deal. It gives one a feeling that Vajpayee was wise not to have signed on the dotted line.
I think its clear that the UPA did cave in to the pressure from the US. As his statement confirms that the NDA too wanted to have a deal but were not offering enough.
