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Doing business with the United States may be to some
extent acceptable but having military or defence pact with the country
which has a long history of betraying the friends is no good deal,
observes SOROOR AHMED
An interesting aspect of Indias foreign policy is that
when the world was bipolar we stood strongly behind the Communist Soviet
Union even at the cost of being publicly abused by the Americans and
now that the world has become unipolar we have become the staunchest
supporter of the Capitalist United States of America. We chose to throw
our lot behind the Soviet Union at the time when our relationship with
Pakistan was at its worst we fought wars in 1965 and 1971 and when
China invaded and captured a huge track of land in October-November 1962
in North East and Kashmir. Now that China is in no mood to fight us and
Pakistan no match to take on in an open battle we are going all out to
befriend the United States. In fact, our foreign policymakers are not
content with befriending US but can go to any extent to please this lone
Super Power of the world.
Doing business with the United States may be to some
extent acceptable but having military or defence pact with the country
which has a long history of betraying the friends is no good deal. What if
the US at last recognised us as a nuclear state. Even if they do not
recognise us as a nuclear state, it does not matter much and we would
continue to remain so.
It does not need to be a communist as the Left Front
is opposing defence pact with the US to oppose Indias foreign policy
towards the lone Super Power. How can we trust Republican Henry Kissinger,
the US secretary of state under President Richard Nixon in early 1970s,
that India is our good friend when during the 1971 war with Pakistan he
and Nixon were the persons who abused the then PM Indira Gandhi as a
witch, bitch and what not. How can the same Republican George Bush be so
generous towards India. The truth is that if the global situation changes,
once again the US leaders would use the expletives like those cited above
for the Indian leaders. The tone of the language may be even worse.
If Indian policymakers were dominated by the
Left-leaning intellectuals in the earlier age they always supported
close ties with the Union of Soviet Socialist Republic (USSR) today
plutocracy prevails over democracy in India. In the post-1991 years the
entrepreneur class calls the shot and even influence the foreign and
economic policies of the country.
Indias relationships with the Soviet Union and the
United States were/are quite different in nature. If some ideological
driven intellectuals, journalists, politicians and bureaucrats contributed
to cementing the ties with the USSR, it is the crass consumerism and
capitalism which have pushed us towards the United States. While language
emerged as a factor behind improving ties with the United States and the
United Kingdom, too it had become really difficult to give a boost to
the people-to-people relationship with the Soviet Union.
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