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.
