to LMcCarten and Ianus on global alliances

Submitted by AS (India), Feb 15, 2007 at 04:34

both of you made interesting points about alignment of Russia, China n possibly India. while Russia is no friend, still America should not try to intervene in Eastern Europe at the scale it does. every geographical/cultural region has a natural leader. would have been prudent if America gave concessions to Russia. same is true for China.

you got to realize that the way their govts are going, they increasingly are becoming more pro-people than sticking their old failed ideology. we got to realize that democracy is not the be all and end all. it is also true that both these countries have muslim problems, but then islamic countries can make concessions to enlist their support. islamists hate the west. so they will have no problem in trying to align these 2 countries towards them.

however, america keeps on doing strange things. as an indian i am completely baffled with the support america provides to pakistan, and for that matter to all the sundry dictators in the middle east. they use your weapons to kill you for Christ's sake!!! and you're right, hindus will be the last people who shall align with these creatures from middle east. we have suffered the most from islam. only hindus have the manpower and the desire to provide it against this disease. atrocities of the past need to be corrected.

however leftist policies are predominant in our 'democratic' establishment too (thats why now i question democracy). i sometimes wonder whether the non-muslim world will also become fed up of its leaders and build its own quasi govt establishments, like Hizbollah etc. but coming back to russia and china, these are countries that can be engaged by america, but america seems to be going the other way on this front. in fact especially with russia, india could be used as a useful bridge. but no! america prefers dealing with islamic dictators while fighting war on terror (whatever that means!!). as i write american/brit soldiers are dying both in afghanistan and iraq. the people in Washington D.C. need to wake up and stop prostituting their public to saudis and pakistanis and egypt. these 3 countries are the prinicipal centers of islamic terrorism.

a question though on judeo-christian renaissance in india?? syrian christians came to india before the church reached europe. and it is believed that christ spent his missing years in kashmir in buddhist monastries n the reason for ideological commonalities between buddhism n christianity. well however today all the buddhist n hindu centers of old are no more. we now have madrassas in pakistan where they chant allah 5 times day. but specifically what renaissance did you mean in your post?

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