Pakistan 'delay let bin Laden escape US raid'

Telegraph ^ | Jan 29 2001 | Massoud Ansari

[Arjun]

You have no sense of history. I dont care about changing your opinion.

[kenavi]

You have no sense of history. I dont care about changing your opinion.

Don't worry, you haven't.

[wildandcrazyrussian]

The important thing is not what a nice-guy ambassador had to SAY about India, but what Secretary of State Kissinger DID against India, in getting the US government not to help prevent the massacre of millions of Hindus in then-East Pakistan.

[kenavi]

The important thing is not what a nice-guy ambassador had to SAY about India...

Moynihan was not just a nice-guy ambassador, he was an intellectual star of the Nixon Administration who had the ear of the President, despite being of opposing political parties. An Ambassador like that can plant seeds that can cultivate long-lasting friendly relations between peoples despite temporary differences between their leaderships. Well before Jean Kirkpatrick and John Bolton, as U.S. Representative to the U.N., Moynihan scorned political correctness and spoke the truth for our country.

...but what Secretary of State Kissinger DID against India, in getting the US government not to help prevent the massacre of millions of Hindus in then-East Pakistan

East Pakistan was not part of India then, as Bangladesh it is not part of India today. Whether you agree or not with what the U.S. did, it was not an action, or a non-action, targeted at India, but was properly considered in the context of our relationship with Pakistan. The U.S. immediately cut off military aid to Pakistan, and that has continued on and off ever since. It is hard to see that the U.S. was in a position to save lives by any further action.

India is not an avatar of a saintly state. I remember a Bangladeshi programmer grumbling to me about how India had diverted the Ganges to the disadvantage of its neighbor. And I don't understand what people who say Israel or India all good are doing on an American site.