I don't understand how rediff can use cheap headlines to misguide the already ignorant Indian public. The USA has been helping India in all fields from research in health, agriculture, science & tech etc;
For your kind information, I will let you know some facts if you are not aware of: In 1959 when Dalai Lama fled to India with the help of the CIA, India did not want to give asylum, so PM Nehru bargained with President Esienhower of US for the Atom bomb tech; but Esienhower promised the next best thing: the US gave India its firs nuclear reactor CIRUS (Canada India Research United States) and moreover 400 Indian scientist were trained in Nuclear Physics at US under that agreement which culminated in the 1974 Pokharan blast.
Don't think India has given asylum to Dalai Lama without getting anything in return.
Do you realize the Northeast India wouldn't have been a part of India during the Chinese invasion in 1962, at that time PM Nehru sent SOS to Russia and the USA, but Russia did not come forward, it was President Kennedy who directed the 7th fleet to the Bay of Bengal and threatened the Chinese with Pershing II Intercontinental ballistic missile, only than did the Chinese troops made ceasefire with the Indian govt.
I would like to point out one more thing, India is always harping and claiming POK but why don't our Indian govt voice out the occupation of the Chinese J&K? (The area under Chinese control is more than the combine area of the state of Meghalaya & Nagaland added together). If this is not double standard than are we chickening out of fear of the Chinese attack again.
Anyway I would like to point out US is the largest provider of aids to the world and even to India upto the 80s.
Don't think US invaded Iraq for control of oil, during the first Gulf war when Saddam invaded Kuwait, it was the US which came forward and liberated Kuwait. At that time Saddam made an offer to the senior Bush (Then US president),that Iraq will provide oil to US at 1/3rd of the International oil price if US didn%u2019t interfere with Iraq's Kuwait invasion, but US liberated Kuwait putting its own soldiers to defend other country. Infact, the US has always scarified its soldiers to defend democracy around the world. It had pumped hundreds of billions of dollars to rebuild Iraq as it had done in case of building South Korea, West Germany, and Israel etc.
Rediff should have highlighted the recent gift by the US navy of USS Trenton (Renamed INS Jalashva) to the Indian Navy, which will become the second largest warship after INS Vikrant...rather than coin stupid title to mislead the already ignorant public. Dr.BJ Borkakoty Dibrugarh.
