The author's remark "....the assumption that good faith does not exist and that a strategic relationship with the United States, even in the changed world scenario,is harmful". Unfortunately,our diplomats who spend much of their productive lives far beyond the shores in the promised lands in the west,without fail,fall prey to the cliches prevailing in those environs.With this,they end up mouthing those same cliches with absolute conviction without realisng that the nation looks upon them to serve and protect her interest primarily and not come back to voice the urges and demands of the political thinking prevailing in the countries they were accredited to!In the case of the 123-Deal,unfortunately,not one bureaucrat has urged caution and forethought before tying the nation to the moorings of a one-sided deal.Any visitor to US can clearly see how the US economic empire treats the entire world as its subservient appendage.That is the reason that it would permanently want India to be the "receiver" while assigning to the self the role of "giver".This despite the fact that US has not spent a dollar on civil nuke tech development eversince 1978.Its civil nuke R&D infrastructure has virtually collapsed while its weapons programmes have reached frankenstein proportions.The American politics is fuelled solely by its own interests alone in exclusivity.How can anyone win (even mutually) in a deal with the US?Has any one and can anyone ever?Why do we want to kid ourselves?
RE:Unchanging US geo-politics in changed world
by george on Aug 30, 2007 11:45 AM Permalink
Although the statement "US has not spent a dollar on civil nuke tech development ever since 1978" is not entirely true, i agree with you.
RE:Unchanging US geo-politics in changed world
by Chakravarthy Muralidhar on Aug 30, 2007 12:40 PM Permalink
Yes, you are right George. I meant it figuratively and not literally. Notwithstanding that,the fact is that there was a mass exodus of top notch academics away from the discipline of nuclear science & engineering in universities across US right through the eighties.Besides,admissions to Graduate and research fellow programs in univs were regulated by the government and kept out of bounds to foriegners,especially from Asia.As a result not much talent was groomed leading the struggling professors to abandon the univ labs for positions in defence labs with access to unlimited funds.In fact, significant funds even from the dept of Energy went to weapons tech development rather than civil application developments!!Net result:Not much civil nuke research talent is available in nuke labs (either in universities or in corporate labs)across US today!This fact is giving gitters to the US strategists which have been expressed in think-tank meets,interactions and even in senate hearings!Many strategy analysts and experts have testified that the US civil nuke reasearch sector is woefully short of science and tech manpower with cutting edge knowledge base.These factors too have played a significant role in shaping the 123-Deal,which almost all our experts and strategy analysts seem to have totally discounted.
RE:Unchanging US geo-politics in changed world
by Chakravarthy Muralidhar on Aug 31, 2007 03:20 PM Permalink
Look mr,you like to remain shrouded without revealing your identity and then you make convoluted statements like "you are twisting facts with logical assumptions".The truth is that what you temr as "logical assumptions" are REAL,HARD FACTS!And I used those facts to arrive at my surmise.In fact,the surmises are also not mine.Since I don't have the ready references to point at or provide link to (although I have studied each one of the reports myself thoroughly) I chose to conclude my communication as if they were my own surmises. Now what is your defence of the allegation you have made, viz, that I am "twisting the facts"? I am pretty certain, you go even more within your shroud now!!
