SHRIKANT BARVE <[email protected]> wrote: India is not the US. The clout which it has over Pakistan we do not have anywhere in the world. At least we could have had the courage to protest -- loudly and openly -- instead of projecting every stab in the back by Obama as a kiss in the back.
COMMENT: This explains why Barve has (perhaps) neither sought nor been able to hold/retain elected office anywhere. Also perhaps why he was given a exit visa from the Chess Organization in Goa. A good starting point would be to examine the various issues involved, how sovereign countries resolve them, what pronouncements they make in public and what the negotiating parties say to each other behind closed doors. A good case to review is the 'cause of the delay' ...and the eventual 'agreement' in Lisbon (and the WHY?) before Abu Salem and Monica Bedi were handed over by Portugal to India jc
