India has got so many things going on and India re-iterated that even if the offer comes from super power if it doesn't benefit us we can stand our ground. The nuclear deal is not a communist/left issue. It is India's sovereign right to pursue nuclear weapons and carry out research in regards to that. The nuclear deal will cut short that privilege and India is right in not getting into this deal. Indian can stand on its own for its energy needs. India has the 2nd largest deposits of Thorium. -----------india unwire . com
RE: Stupid article!.
by Pramod Sharma on Oct 27, 2007 04:19 PM Permalink
If you want to highlight the stupidity in the article, underline two sentences - "US will abide only as long as you are in their good books" and "learn ... to milk the US without stepping on the trapdoors". In effect, it means that if India has to remain on the map of the world, it must remain a slave to the US for ever hereafter. Reg. second sentence, it is foolish of the writer to think that we can 'milk' the US. They are not fools, and they already proved so by sending ultimatums of the year-end even before the treaty is signed.
The fact remains that there are dangerous inconsistencies in the treaty and we must address those at any cost.
Reg. Manmohan Singh and the Congress Party, both thought that because of his image, all parties and people at large would blindly accept anything and everything that he does. This is the real stupidity. He followed it up by calling the Leftists' bluff but he could never ever repeat what he said. Both he and his party are shivering in their pants because both of them have been exposed, and both of them cannot afford to lose 'power' they are enjoying without the 'votes in their favour'.
Hope things are clearer now, and we know where we stand. Manmohan Singh's follies have brought India and its people to this ridiculous position.
RE: Stupid article!.
by alex on Oct 28, 2007 12:58 AM Permalink
Indians are much cleverer than Americans, but the cleverer Indains are supressed by communists are capable of stalling any development
If you think the quoted sentence means that Indians must remain slaves to Americans , then sorry friend, please re read the sentence again. It means you have to be smarter than Americans and exploit Americans like the chinese like chines.e
RE: Stupid article!.
by Raj on Oct 27, 2007 01:29 PM Permalink
What a Naive thought? India does have thorium reserves, but do we have expertise right now to fully exploit it? Also this treaty is protested by LEFT due to pressure on it from China and Pakistan, their masters. India should talk to China and Pakistan and NOT with LEFT if it wants to sign the treaty with US.
RE: Stupid article!.
by Tamil Arasan on Oct 28, 2007 07:05 AM Permalink
"India shld talk to China & Pak & not to the left if it wants to sign the treaty". This is really funny !! This save hinduism guy Raj has a sense of humour !
RE: Stupid article!.
by alex on Oct 27, 2007 07:07 PM Permalink
No. Right wing is protesting because if the deal proceeds under the leadership of Congress,they canot claim credit for it.
it is high time political parties should give priority to National interests.
tHE NUCLEAR DEAL IS WATCHED BY LEFTS MASTERS AND REPORTED IS THEIR PAPERS SAYING THAT " COMMRADE KARAT IS DOING EVERYTHING TO STALL THE DEAL.iT WAS HOWN ON ONEOF THE TALK SHOWS AND COMMUNIST PARTY COULD NOT DEFEND IT IN THE TALK SHOW
RE: Stupid article!.
by Tamil Arasan on Oct 28, 2007 07:21 AM Permalink
Maybe the chinese have bought both the right & the left & hence this confusion.
I have failed to understand what the tears are about. India took the decision to go nuclear prior to Partition in 1947. When the NPT was coming into power, India refused to sign it. This was India's decision because it claimed an underclass was being created because there were many nations who did not sign the NPT at the time it came into power. Frnace was one such power.
India chose its path historically. Today if it is faced with the 123 portion of the USA's Atomic Energy Act of 1954, then it knew of that part of the act prior to entering into negotiations. Perhaps the smartest thing would have been to say No right away and then held out for better terms but that to might not have worked unless the USA altered Section 123 to permit India to accede to an acceptable treaty.
What is really beyond me is why is India so keen on hot testing it nuclear arsenal? Did you really explode a Hydrogen Bomb in 1998 at Pokhran? Is this India's ultimate aim? If it is then you have problems. If it isn't, then you have a proven nuclear arsenal which is not small so there should be no problem to acceding to the Treaty with the USA. Its probably this or then I am watching too muich texas hold'em Poker.
Dr.Singh is between the devil and the deep sea. I mean the the comrades who always will oppose any deal with the US and the current /ex personnel of the nuclaer establishment in India, whose importance lies more on the right to test and bomb making than the energy needs of the common man. And the BJP which opposes anything and everything that UPA does is not of much help either.If the so called elites and knowledgeable are not responsible, how can DR.Singh could do anything about it. You have to give something to get something.Sadly, the nuclear establishment had not developed civilian nuclear technologies thus far and the goverment had to look for foreign sources for the same.
With the overwhelming majority of the masses either illiterate, funtionally illiterate or barely literate and living way below the poverty line, such things as 'national interests' are way over their heads - thats' why they're so easily fooled by the Comunists-Leftists by things closer like promises of some token freebies - poor people, who make up the overwhelming majority of the voters, care first and foremost about the basics - feeding themselves; then housing, clothes, schools, health-care and the like. Fretting about such high-minded stuff like India's place in the world is a luxury only the well-off and well-heeled can indulge in? Waht does he mean "ready yourself to pay the price..", they're already paying the price - it can only get worse - all downhill from here, a la democracy Indian ishtyle - pussillanimity.
This N-deal was pretty useless in all aspects. It was bound to constrain india's N-bombs, give the US leverage over India, provide power at 3 times the cost and leave India at the mercy of US wishes. The worst part was the perpetual safeguards which means that once the deal is signed India's listed civilian reactors can never be used for bombs. These safeguards would exist even if the US scrapped the deal and stopped supplying fuel. It is unfortunate that backward thinking left were the only ones to oppose this deal. Every patriotic Indian who understands english should have read the text and voiced his/her opinion against this deal.
