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To: MBT ARJUN
She told the official, 'You have lost a good friend.'

Ms Khobragade, like most people, probably exaggerates her importance. Nonetheless, it is unfortunate that a country would make major decisions about international relations on the basis of an event like this. But countries on the rise but not yet there always seem to be the most hypersensitive.

3 posted on 01/11/2014 9:42:56 AM PST by untenured
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To: untenured

Say what you want, this was a huge mistake by the US. India is entitled to whatever reaction they desire.


15 posted on 01/11/2014 10:13:16 AM PST by Former Proud Canadian (Cruz/Palin 2016)
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Actually the problem moved beyond the importance of Khobragade. Her strip-search and cavity-search upon her arrest, irritated many in India, uniting political parties across the spectrum (which is an almost impossible task). It was no longer about what she had done, but more about a national humiliation through how their diplomat was treated.

They do have a point. If this had been done to Chinese or Russian diplomats, the response from these countries would have been immediate and pretty severe, making headlines around the world. We know all about the Chinese government sponsored riots to express anger. Compared to that India's response has been quite calm and measured.

These sort of problems have festered for a while now. Couple of years ago the Indian ambassador to the U.S. was subjected to an extensive search in one of the airports here. Prior to that the Indian defense minister was searched at an airport.

India feels that the treatment it receives is not the same respect that other countries get. Recently there was the incident of the Saudi princess keeping near slaves and she was let go, and then the Russian diplomats engaged in some fraud, and those guys were also not arrested.

India feels that it is perceived as a "soft state" that does not retaliate or reciprocate for these incidents, that is why they are ignored when they complain.

The sad part is that the U.S. diplomats in India are the ones who have to deal with the consequences, not Bharara or anyone else.

17 posted on 01/11/2014 10:28:37 AM PST by Moorings
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well, the point of view for India is "you strip search and handcuff our diplomat? And we thought we were friends -- you couldn't even do the courtesy of NOT strip searching her?"

To India it seems like this is something done to a fourth-rate power, not a rising power.

35 posted on 01/14/2014 5:58:45 AM PST by Cronos (ObamaÂ’s dislike of Assad is not based on AssadÂ’s brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Moslem)
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