India aims to be global power: 21st century belongs to rapidly growning nation, leaders say

Billings Gazette ^ | January 23, 2004 | Chicago Tribune

[Cronos]

Can India compete for oil with China?

Err, they do have a growing navy and they can control the oil flows through the Mid East through the Malacca Straits to China.

[swarthyguy]

They really are in the Anglosphere despite the many contradictions even among the lefty intellectuals, language being one factor and an illfated predilection to Fabian Socialism, but, hey, that's an Anglo thing to.

Not to mention sports, the Commonwealth kind, cricket, (field) hockey, tho the subcontinent doesn't seem to have taken to rugby the way the old Dominions have.

And what the English do without Indian food in the Realm. Reconquer India again, I suppose.

[swarthyguy]

They really are in the Anglosphere despite the many contradictions even among the lefty intellectuals, language being one factor and an illfated predilection to Fabian Socialism, but, hey, that's an Anglo thing too.

Not to mention sports, the Commonwealth kind, cricket, (field) hockey, tho the subcontinent doesn't seem to have taken to rugby the way the old Dominions have.

And what the English do without Indian food in the Realm. Reconquer India again, I suppose.

[risk]

Patriots for freedom have to stick together across borders. The American Revolution is an international one! We can't claim it by race or by religion. We can claim it based on our intrinsic humanity, however. And we will together. And damn those who would take that away from any of us.

[untenured]

Solutions to India's horrendous poverty will not be solved by capitalism. The religious caste system is an appalling deformity that will forever keep masses of people shitting on the side of the roads and living in vast urban squalor.

Actually, economic freedom is the only chance they have to overcome this historical burden. Software companies can't afford to care what caste you're from; only politicians can gain from emphasizing that. This is why Indian politics is more and more defined around caste and ethinicity, even as modern Indian businesses, many of them very young, are far more integrated.

The only color that matters in business is green, which is why "capitalism" is the best chance India has to do what fifty years of aggressive affirmative action have failed to do. It's the avoidance of economic freedom all these years that has made these problems so intractable, IMHO. Fortunately that is starting to change.

[Michael81Dus]

Patriots for freedom have to stick together across borders.

BUMP!

[risk]

Hey, we heard reports of German troops (police, army, etc...) lining up to pay tribute to American wounded coming in from Iraq during the first part of the war. Was that story true, and are there news reports we can link to?

[Michael81Dus]

http://www.andreas-fecker.de/friendship/ramstein.htm
http://www.lajes.af.mil/newspaper/0017-May2-03.pdf
http://www.talkingproud.us/Military052303.html
http://www.house.gov/petri/weekly/apr18_03.htm

Yep, this story is true. :-)

[Old Professer]

Maybe we could benefit from having the spellchecker toggle on when a post is first made.

[PokeyJoe]

point taken.

The French are idiots.

[risk]

> [links in ] http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1065089/posts?page=28#28

When I first heard about this story of tribute being paid to our Iraqi wounded, I was relieved in so many ways. The Deutche Welle news here had been so anti-American during the first days of the war (or so I felt, being quite on the defensive myself). German protests were very loud, and Schroeder had my teeth on edge. I still hear a lot of European popular music over the Internet that strikes me as anti-American, which doesn't help.

Why would this event give me such satisfaction? Let me explain. The thought struck me that no matter how hostile German "greens," socialists, or even Nazis, heaven forbid -- we imagine all sorts of things when we hear about anti-semitic graffiti and violence in east Germany -- become, when all is said and done the German soldier, police officer, and special forces troops will stand with America. In other words, what is there to really fear.

German political leadership might fail, but they will have no currency with the soldiers this time. I suspect the same is true of the French military, which has fought with us in Indochina, as well as (presumably) many other secret locations around the world since WWII.

Once again, soldiers of the free world will be our bullwark against tyranny.

[SAMWolf]

Bump

[risk]

Japan's commitment of troops to Iraq, and this gesture by Germany's troops are the best signs that the allies completely won WWII that I've seen yet.

[Michael81Dus]

Very true.