Wow! Well said, sir. Contrary to what the gentleman purports, I firmly believe US showed renewed interest in Gulf only n only for Oil...No more - No Less.
If it is going to pump in millions of dollars to 'rebuild' Iraq, the idea is to make it an additional state of US.
If it went to war with Afghanistan [grabbing 9/11 as an excuse], it was again to further its geo-political interest to gain a good foot-hold against China and also to form a strong East frontier to the Gulf of Middle East and later on [with Porkistan] gain a say in ALL oil supplies to South East Asia and Far East.
We as Indian should not fall in a trap...not for US, not for anyone.
We should instead look to kick Pakistan where it hurts the most, to ensure theres no repeat of their 26/11 misdemeanours anywhere in the world.
Lets take some inspiration from Israel.
If we can be even 20% of them in terms of their no-tolerance policy, with or without US, we can be really powerful locally as well as globally.
