Yes, US used to be a great country but it is in a free fall. While CIA was funding Pakistan based Jaehadis to kill Indians in Kashmir and Punjab, there were three very important developments taking place which will prove fatal to US as super power
1. Rise of Euro as a currency. 2. Rise of China as manufacturing giant and China's policy to make friendship with Japan and Taiwan thus trying to prevent USA from fishing in troubled water 3. Unity of Islamic countires under OIC. They knew they could win directly against USA, so they also started to use deception while dealing with US.
US will be facing tough times for the next decade and if it ever recovers, it would be a miracle. US leadership is shortsighted, its state department babus are worse than our North block Babus and ill informed. US has no flexibility in policy--like a senile person.
India should strike a very hard bargain for any deal, US would give in. India is the only country which is still sympathetic to USA but this nuclear deal may turn away Indians from that position.
RE:Friendship with US is a liability
by soorma on Jul 04, 2008 08:32 PM Permalink
Punjab was created by GOI by attacking Golden temple, killing thousands of sikhs in 1984 and then by refusing to punish the culprits....
RE:Friendship with US is a liability
by Sameer on Jul 04, 2008 08:37 PM Permalink
The west was trying to foment trouble in India for long. They were brain washing a small segment of Sikhs residing in the west since 1970s. Indira Gandhi played into their hands and made matters much worse pushing moderate Sikhs to believe the propaganda that Sikh religion was in danger. No one gained from 20 years of violence, neither Sikhs nor India.
RE:Friendship with US is a liability
by soorma on Jul 04, 2008 09:03 PM Permalink
No one gained but we lost a lot... We have now criminals running this country...
RE:Friendship with US is a liability
by deepak on Jul 04, 2008 08:43 PM Permalink
Wrong assumptions. US is under pressure because it is the only one that took on the Islamic jihadists while the rest of the world with Indian being at the forefront cowed down. The US is not going away, simply because no nation has the entrepreneurial ability of the US. No one can reinvent itself like US because nothing comes to you free here. No dole, no freebies..plus it has got great institutions to back its spirit. Association with the $14 trillion economy (nearly 30% of the world) is the only way for a developing country like India to benefit.
RE:Friendship with US is a liability
by Sameer on Jul 04, 2008 09:09 PM Permalink
You are wrong 1. 14 trillion economy is way way inflated. It will be 1/5th of that. 2. US took on Islamic jehadis? - but against India they use jehadis even now.
RE:Friendship with US is a liability
by pwnzorzz on Jul 04, 2008 08:22 PM Permalink
india total tax collected 40$ billion us total tax collected 2007 2400$billion. zameen aasman ka farak hai u better keep quiet man we need US to counter pak and china esp china.
RE:Friendship with US is a liability
by markand desai on Jul 04, 2008 08:30 PM Permalink
What a blind mind.If you are slave to us(a banana republic)no need to worry for pak or us. You are worth being slave???
RE:Friendship with US is a liability
by pwnzorzz on Jul 04, 2008 08:38 PM Permalink
slave lol? how can we become slave to us by signing the deal please explain?
RE:Friendship with US is a liability
by Sameer on Jul 04, 2008 08:30 PM Permalink
European economy is already bigger than US. Chinese economy would overtake it in the next few years or even earlier if dollar falls and yuan appreciates.
India can handle both China and Pakistan alone, the problme arises because US keeps supporting Pakistan- and that is not going to chnage. Listen to some crazy foreign policy gurus in US like Stephen Cohen who 'wants to ride Pakistani tiger all the way'..probably taking US into a ditch as well. US invested so much in Pakistan which is now openly training Taliban to kill US soldiers. This si insane but that is US for you.
US policy still remains mired in 80s concept of keeping India boxed in South Asia.
India would benefit from weak US so that they stop this harakiri- but things take time to change.
