Posted on 07/22/2005 3:26:33 PM PDT by naturalman1975
Anglosphere in high gear.
While India's "counterbalance" with China is vital equally vital is the counterbalance with Pakistan and the rest of central Asia.
The Paks will soon see that the economic growth in India is desirable for their country. If they want to market themselves to businesses they will need to grow their relatonship with India and the west and reduce their ties to the backwards middle east.
I like India :)
It's really not clear to me that any Muslim country is capable of making informed decisions like this. Envy and terrorism seems like the more probably reaction.
People are naturally greedy.
One of the problems in the oil states is that all of the oil businesses are nationalized and no one has a chance to make a buck for themselves.
This is a good move. It makes sense strategically, and it makes sense on other levels. As the Indian economy modernizes, we and they are becoming ever more intertwined. Culturally there has been enough cross-fertilization that we are no longer so foreign from one another as we once were.
Technically they are becoming a force in their own right.
And we are both faced with potentially common adversaries. No one wants a war with China, we prefer to do business. But if China goes toxic, there is no other possible ally of any use in such a war, India is it. They have already fought China twice, and while they would also prefer to do business, they could also use a friend should push ever come to shove.
And we both must deal with radical Islam. There things get a little complicated, where Pakistan is India's primary enemy, and we rely on Pakistan's cooperation to get at the bad guys who have taken refuge there. But in large part Pakistan's cooperation comes thanks to India's playing bad cop to our good cop, and we may as well recognize whose help it is that comes grudgingly and whose it is that is offered willingly.
I was tossing a football with an Indian grad student the other day, and he had the better spiral.
In this case as with all totalitarian regimes, the word "nationalized" is a euphemism for "owned by the thugs who run things". This would include just about every Muzzim country in the world.
Isn't the term "Indians" offensive?
Shouldn't we be calling them something like native sub-continentals?
Exactly, because that's the easy way out.
Kinda like the race baiters here in the US...much easier to blame Whitey than to actually get an education and take some responsibility for oneself.
If we decide to help India to become a blue water super power in the Western Pacific, China can kiss their plans for dominance in the region good by forever. The Chi Coms must be sweating bullets. I wonder if the agreement had anything to do with that brazen threat by the Chinese General about Taiwan? My guess is that the Chinese caught wind of it and that was their knee jerk reaction.
As usual the MSM completely misses the story. Quck back to "Get Karl," missing teen in Aruba, any more runaway brides out there?
this is a most facinating political event.
again our president thinks way ahead of the
curve.
it just has to kill the dems to see president Bush
being the great leader he is.
Good point. And, it makes it easier for the gov to buy voters with handouts. A bad combination.
Musharraf(spel?) has his a$$ in a vice. The Jihadist want him dead, and they keep trying to prove it. Pakistan has nukes. What if they are successful in murdering Musharraf? Militants will control the nukes.
What then?
Its got to do more with the kind of governments they have than the people.
Look at Malaysia, they are a Muslim country and all they want to do is business. Malaysia is not completely democratic but is more democratic than any other Muslim country.
By the way India has the 2nd largest muslim population in the world and the muslims in India are interested in making money. Look at Azim Premji Chairman of WIPRO a software giant and is the richest man in India. Networth I think was 10 billion dollars. Thats the role model muslims have in India not Osama Bin Laden
"What are we to do about Pakistan?"
That is the question. And because we must ask it without any good answers, we should know that letting Iran get Nukes is not an option.
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