Well , I do not agree to most of your views.
Thank god India went nuclear or else we would be suffering from the militancy in Kashmir and repeated attacks by the Pakistani I.S.I. Plus , with China and Maosist rebels on our Eastern front, India would be squeezed. And in the south there is Myanmar which is no friend of ours anyways. You might ask "Why Myanmar" ?? Well , China has a listening station and a naval base there. The Communists like eavesdropping on our nation. India did not need nukes for any of that. Each one of the threats you described was non-nuclear.
And what guarantee is that China wouldn't help Pakistan to go nuclear??? I mean Pakistan gets all its fuel , reactors and stuff from Beijing. India is the country that first broke the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty, not Pakistan.
And its CERTAINLY not because of India that countries like Iran and N.K went nuclear. No, but it is because of the perceived nuclear threat from India that Pakistan rationalized its development of nukes. Again, it is India that first went nuclear in South Asia, not Pakistan. As I stated above, it was Pakistan that proliferated nuke technology to Iran and NK.Its beacuse of A.Q Khan (Who is a Pakistani nuke scientist ) and China!!
As for India being neutral during the Gulf War.. Its because when the world's largest democracy asked America for help in 1962 you didn't help us. When we needed wheat for our people after independance and asked America the U.S Senate took months and months to approve of the bill to send a cargo of wheat into India!!! India did not help depose the criminal dictator because America did not give it food fast enough 36 years earlier? Any student of history knows that despite the "non-aligned" claim, India's foreign policy for most of the period from independence through the 1980s was firmly in the Soviet camp. It's a matter of historical record..
And during the Cold War when India tried to get friendly with U.S you gave us a cold shoulder. Examples, please. The Soviets hepled us. They gave us wheat. We owe some part of our economy to them. Our space program also wasen't encouraged by U.S. Russia helped us. Only in the late 1980's did America help to launch our satellites. AND WE WERE NEVER WITH THE SOVIETS DURING COLD WAR. WE WERE NON ALIGNED THAT IS WE NEITHER SUPPORTED YOU OR THE COMMUNISTS!!!! That must be why India obtained almost all of its fighter planes and other weapons from the Soviets. India was used as a Soviet tool to help pressure China in the Soviet-Chinese confrontation that occurred during the 60s and 70s. Are you really unaware of this?
When we went nuclear there was a huge cry from the States. But when Pakistan did the tests you just rebuked them. And after that you started selling them F-16 fighter jets. The Pakistani development of nukes was a direct consequence of India's completely unnecessary and unprovoked nuclear weapons program. There is absolutely no foreign policy challenge that has ever faced India that needed to be handled with nukes, or the threat of nukes. Again, it was India, and no one else, that single-handedly rendered the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty meaningless. F-16s? Are you unaware that India is about to buy F-18s of superior capability? Should we take back the offer?
Why does U.S see India as a " threat " and not as a friend??? Could that be because India, with its support of Soviet foreign policy for at least 40 years, did not act like a friend? Could it be because India unnecessarily armed itself with nuclear weapons causing a nuke weapons race in South Asia? Could it be that IndiaÂ’s behavior ignored one of the most important international treaties created since WW2: the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty? But contrary to your assertion above, America does not view India as a direct threat.
The country which most Indians prefer to immigrate is America. The best place for outsourcing your companies outside N.America is India. Do you think that outsourcing is popular in the US? Outsourcing has cost American workers thousands of high value jobs. These jobs have fled the US primarily for India. Aki, outsourcing really upsets most Americans.
America should realise that India is the ONLY and I say the ONLY country that can keep a tab on China in Asia and maintain the status quo. If India haden't risen militarily the continent of Asia would be full of Communists with nukes. No, it is because of India's destruction of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty that South Asia is full of nukes. And India is not the only country that confronts China. What do you think America has been doing for the last 60 years in places like Korea, Taiwan, and Vietnam? Places were it received no help from India. If India was so interested in fighting off Chinese communist influence in Asia, why did it do nothing to help America in Vietnam? There were South Korean, Thai, and Australian troops fighting with Americans forces in Korea and Vietnam. Where were the Indians? Of course the reason that India did not help fight the communists in Northeast and Southeast Asia is that their main ally and arms supplier, the Soviets, would not have liked that.
But Aki, most of what we have been discussing occurred in the past, and America is ready to move on. India and the US will develop much better relations then they have had in the past. You asked the question about why the US has not enthusiastically supported IndiaÂ’s UNSC bid. I have given you my opinion. The opinion of others may differ. You can be sure that America will not block IndiaÂ’s UNSC bid at some reasonable time in the future. But no one will support IndiaÂ’s ascendancy to the UNSC when it is still, after decades, essentially at war with its neighbor Pakistan. Do not misunderstand, I realize that there is plenty of blame to go around, and that the India-Pakistan conflict is not all (or even mostly) the fault of India. But the situation remains unresolved, and it needs to conclude in a viable peace treaty before other members of the UNSC will enthusiastically agree to IndiaÂ’s goal to sit permanently on the council.
AksHay
