According to this report, what the deal gives India is:
1. a close but unequal political and military partnership with the US ---
GREAT - coz practically that is true and good for India.
2. erode India's foreign policy and strategic independence and make New Delhi complicit in Washington's disastrous plans to retain its global hegemony
HOW? WHY? what strategic independence is compromised?
3. normalises or legitimises India's nuclear weapons
GREAT - as an Indian, I will take that.
4. India will only put 14 of its 22 civilian reactors under IAEA inspections. From the remaining eight reactors, it can produce 200 kg of plutonium a year -- enough for 40 bombs
GREAT - as an Indian, I will take that.
5. As far as energy goes, it's another Enron in the making
RE:Read between the lines
by All Right on Jul 19, 2008 06:52 AM Permalink
What favors you, you say GREAT without understanding... it might actually not be that great, coz you didn't take the trouble to understand it...
AS to what is outside your comfort zone, you are too eager to understand.... :)
Keep going... you are on the right path of learning.... just ensure that learning should be a complete learning, and not partial one, as your journey seems to be...
I said "Great" on three of the answers above. On #3 and #4 I understand the concerns of nuclear proliferation and the concerns about global peace and the other lofty ideals preached by the west, which I must say, they have not followed up on so far. I see no reason why India needs to follow up on the same until India is on a equal footing with the western nations.
As for #1, I said Great coz the writer pits India as almost equal (close) in a political and in a militray partnership with the US. In neither case, are we any equal. If with this deal, we are going to get close, (obviously unequal), then yes, it is advantageous for India and to me. I think it is a great step forward.
As for the rest, it is not quest for knowledge or the right path of learning etc; it is simply to ask the writer to put the facts forward for the rest of us, that he has based his Enron theory and the foreign policy theory. No nation can blackmail, force, push, prod or thrust their opinion on any other nation. It is only upto India to take whatever foreign policy decision that India needs to take once the deal is signed, sealed and delivered. So, I dont really agree with the absurdity of those claims above.
RE:Read between the lines
by Sahadevan KK on Jul 19, 2008 12:02 PM Permalink
People of entire India will dance and explode crackers when MMS govt fall down. People have no hope. UPA became Untruthful Purchase Alliance. Peoploe will praise the Left who beaten this govt.
Congress is in a pathetic way, because Congress has to distribute 25 crore to its own MPs, because they are against pappu MMS. He goes with lallu Bush without those MPs permission.
We again say that MMS and Company are selling our country. Who gave permission to Congress leaders to give classified advertisment, "India on Sale"? Legal experts say that an Italian Sardar cannot sell our India.
RE:Read between the lines
by CatchTwentyTwo on Jul 20, 2008 01:05 PM Permalink
IF your point is personal and something that needs you to show me and to the world that you understnd things too well and that you are superior to me and to the rest of us, Indians, ok.. no problem... I will concede that to you. Yes, you are the all knowing saint.
Now, what is your point about the nuclear deal as that is what I am concerned about here. IF there are any concrete reasons why you are for or against the deal, list them out and we can discuss it more.
