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by komal
14 Jan 2017 04:49
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions III
Replies: 3964
Views: 889504

Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions III

Oh yes, there'll be a nice little war with China in the near future. Wall Street and California dread it, but the US as a whole would welcome a conventional war with clear cut goals and victories. Unless the chini goes terrorist like the muslims after a beating which is doubtful given the chinaman'...
by komal
12 Jan 2017 22:20
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: Understanding US thread-III
Replies: 3131
Views: 607142

Re: Understanding US thread-III

unverified allegations that Russian security officials have material on Trump including lurid sex videos that could be used to blackmail him Seriously? Americans are going 2b SHOCKED :eek: :shock: that their POTUS can get it up at age 76 (if not long ago) without a lot of Monicking? :rotfl: Someone...
by komal
09 Jan 2017 22:24
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions III
Replies: 3964
Views: 889504

Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions III

Sorry, what is "Indian MIC"
by komal
05 Jan 2017 16:47
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions III
Replies: 3964
Views: 889504

Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions III

actually I think little has changed. we are not central to American thinking - and we will be less so under Trump. We are not central to Russian thinking. both sides will pay us lip service whilst they focus on their euro/atlantic frontier power balance. the only benefit is that we 'may' have a fre...
by komal
05 Jan 2017 06:24
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions III
Replies: 3964
Views: 889504

Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions III

The USA of the 21st century is not the USA of 1945 or even 1971. Any nation with an ounce of self-respect would have leveled Pakistan and installed a puppet government in Islamabad after 9/11. China would not countenance such an attack on their client. Instead the USA chose to pay tribute to Pakista...
by komal
05 Jan 2017 05:45
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions III
Replies: 3964
Views: 889504

Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions III

So an official of the World Bank calling on India and Pakistan over the IWT is somehow proof positive of the USA mediating between the two nations over Kashmir?
by komal
04 Jan 2017 07:10
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions III
Replies: 3964
Views: 889504

Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions III

Outgoing administration showing it true colors, setting up new administration to follow up on mediation route wrt India -pak, wtf I hope indian government responds like Israeli PM that we would not tolerate any third party mediation : http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/pakistan/us-steps-in-to...
by komal
04 Jan 2017 06:18
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions III
Replies: 3964
Views: 889504

Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions III

Outgoing administration showing it true colors, setting up new administration to follow up on mediation route wrt India -pak, wtf I hope indian government responds like Israeli PM that we would not tolerate any third party mediation : http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/pakistan/us-steps-in-to...
by komal
30 Dec 2016 22:37
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions III
Replies: 3964
Views: 889504

Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions III

And they have the moon on their flag. what more proof is needed??
by komal
30 Dec 2016 22:10
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions III
Replies: 3964
Views: 889504

Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions III

Agree there was mutual benefit. In fact, the USA benefited much from all the IITs. I doubt the moon launch would have been successful if not for Indians. IBM/INTEL have acknowledged how the 1967 act increased their productivity. . Could you please tell, how Indians had any significant role in "...
by komal
30 Dec 2016 09:56
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions III
Replies: 3964
Views: 889504

Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions III

And you say "Indian immigration to the USA is one benefit." Benefit to whom? Indian immigrants were looking for better opportunities than they could find in India, USA had them and also it needed more people of varying calibres to take up the tasks that their own people were unwilling or ...
by komal
30 Dec 2016 07:29
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions III
Replies: 3964
Views: 889504

Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions III

... Pretty much everyone is closing their borders to trade. India cannot afford to open hers. That too to keep others nose above water and let Indian ones sink... Out of curiosity...what are the data points (other than youtube clips) that suggest everyone are closing borders to trade? http://davids...
by komal
28 Dec 2016 21:11
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions III
Replies: 3964
Views: 889504

Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions III

Very true and the sacrifices that the Democrats made for the nation would be proven by history. Reminds me of the slogans of "sacrifices" prominently displayed outside INC offices dotting the length and breadth of this country. One example Maa bete ka yeh balidaan, yaad rakhega Hindustan ...
by komal
28 Dec 2016 21:08
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions III
Replies: 3964
Views: 889504

Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions III

NRao wrote:
that allowed hundreds of thousands of Indians and other non-whites
Until Jimmy Carter we were "White". A data point.
Not true. Indians were first declared a minority for federal contracting rules in 1978.
by komal
28 Dec 2016 12:00
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions III
Replies: 3964
Views: 889504

Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions III

Democrats lost over 1,000 seats under Failed President Obama The Democratic Party suffered huge losses at every level during Obama’s West Wing tenure. The grand total: a net loss of 1,042 state and federal Democratic posts, including congressional and state legislative seats, governorships and the ...
by komal
16 Dec 2016 03:36
Forum: Military History Archive
Topic: 48th Anniversary of decisive Indian victory in 1971
Replies: 164
Views: 368155

Re: 41st Anniversary of decisive Indian victory in 1971

I remember seeing this poem published in the NYT back in 1971. http://www.nytimes.com/books/01/04/08/specials/ginsberg-jessore.html Border trucks flooded, food can't get past, American Angel machine please come fast! Where is Ambassador Bunker today? Are his Helios machinegunning children at play? W...
by komal
17 Nov 2016 14:38
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Currency Demonetisation and Future course of Indian Economy
Replies: 7884
Views: 1461019

Re: Currency Demonetisation and Future course of Indian Economy

I have a strong feeling the Big fish are watching the scenary from behind the tall grass with beady eyes and waiting to see if the situation changes by Dec 30. They are waiting to see if Didi's/AK420 etc.'s muhim pays off and changes something by Dec 30. The big money is yet to be reeled in. How do...
by komal
12 Nov 2016 11:07
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Currency Demonetisation and Future course of Indian Economy
Replies: 7884
Views: 1461019

Re: Currency Demonitisation and Future course of Indian Economy

Why are authorities forcing temples to seal their hundi boxes? What is wrong if BM is donated to a good cause rather than being burned?
by komal
09 Nov 2016 22:56
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: India Border Watch: Security and Operations
Replies: 4479
Views: 1234669

Re: India Border Watch: Security and Operations

yensoy wrote: Suddenly the mischief mongers will understand that the world doesn't care for them and has moved on.
+100
by komal
09 Nov 2016 16:58
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Understanding the United States of America (USA) - III
Replies: 2933
Views: 446470

Re: Understanding the United States of America (USA) - III

Projections and results. Normally it goes as projected. Projections have to be from Reliable Sources. Like UBCN - never wrong, obviously. Let this be a lesson to all of you children. Now let's dissgus this? :mrgreen: UlanBatori-ji I will never doubt your word again!!! Unbelievable prescience on you...
by komal
07 Nov 2016 19:55
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Understanding the United States of America (USA) - III
Replies: 2933
Views: 446470

Re: Understanding the United States of America (USA) - III

From Table 1.4, page 8 "This Century's Bloodiest Megamurderers" Numbers are in millions (rounded) Joseph Stalin: 42.7 Mao Tse-Tung: 37.8 Adolf Hitler: 20.9 Chiang Kai-shek: 10.2 Vladimir Illich Lenin: 4.0 Tojo Hideki: 3.99 Pol Pot: 2.4 Yahya Khan: 1.5 Josip Tito: 1.17 I notice that Church...
by komal
07 Nov 2016 09:11
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Understanding the United States of America (USA) - III
Replies: 2933
Views: 446470

Re: Understanding the United States of America (USA) - III

:rotfl: these groups don't have any influence with Democrats right? Like leela samson and other vaticunts for instance? Indian Americans voting for the genocidal ghoul will be voting because of their own self interest( and it is not wrong.) But they claiming it to be for the good of India is patent...
by komal
07 Nov 2016 08:47
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Understanding the United States of America (USA) - III
Replies: 2933
Views: 446470

Re: Understanding the United States of America (USA) - III

What surprises me is that so many members here seem to completely brush aside our concerns with Hilary, concerns that are rooted in experiences of the past. As opposed to concerns with Grover Norquist/Evangelical Christian controlled GOP? Other than me, has any Trump supporter ever mentioned Grover...
by komal
07 Nov 2016 08:27
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Understanding the United States of America (USA) - III
Replies: 2933
Views: 446470

Re: Understanding the United States of America (USA) - III

It was the GOP that accused the CM Modi of genocide and denied him a visa. How soon we forget. That was the superficial Party Line, but if one did a bit of due diligence to understand what happened (a very UnDesi practice, of course, but one that some of 'us' did with a great deal of intensity at t...
by komal
07 Nov 2016 05:51
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Understanding the United States of America (USA) - III
Replies: 2933
Views: 446470

Re: Understanding the United States of America (USA) - III

This election has been fun for Desi living Indians. World greatest democracy ( as per that scum bag Zakaria yesterday) truly exposed. As Assange put it, HC will win because she has deep state support and at the end that only counts. My gut feeling still is DT will win. But it may end up as wishful ...
by komal
05 Nov 2016 21:31
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Understanding the United States of America (USA) - III
Replies: 2933
Views: 446470

Re: Understanding the United States of America (USA) - III

vijayk wrote:
Either way whoever wins, the world is in for a hard hard time. Only happy campers will be Terroristan and insurgents all over the world
Hard to disagree with your assessment, unfortunately.
by komal
05 Nov 2016 21:12
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Understanding the United States of America (USA) - III
Replies: 2933
Views: 446470

Re: Understanding the United States of America (USA) - III

GOP = Party of Jesse Helms/Dan Burton who wanted India dismembered by Pakistan. GOP = Party of Evangelical Christians who denied a visa to Modi-ji because they claimed he had committed "genocide" GOP = Party of Grover Norquist who is doesn't even bother hiding his allegiance to Islam GOP =...
by komal
02 Nov 2016 20:02
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Sunni Terrorist Fragments of Unstable Pakistan-13 June,2016
Replies: 2846
Views: 613027

Re: Sunni Terrorist Fragments of Unstable Pakistan-13 June,2016

SSridhar wrote:
Falijee wrote:I.SI. Brigadier Attacks "Massaland's Amreeki Professor " At Afghanistan Conference

A befitting response to Christine Fair “the American witch”
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.
There have been some funny comments posted -- but they seem to get deleted very quickly.
by komal
26 Oct 2016 04:38
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Understanding the United States of America (USA) - III
Replies: 2933
Views: 446470

Re: Understanding the United States of America (USA) - III

In Jawjuh, the Voting Rights Act was brought mainly to stop Democrats from redrawing districts. The elephants were originally just the carpetbaggers in the cities, but Jimmy Carter managed to spread the Republican Party to the rural areas and they have never looked back. Maybe this time it will be ...
by komal
26 Oct 2016 04:32
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Understanding the United States of America (USA) - III
Replies: 2933
Views: 446470

Re: Understanding the United States of America (USA) - III

Al Gore, with all due respect, just came across as the worst of the Bogus-Liberal WASP Elite. Quintessential definition of the American term "Mealy-Mouthed". And events since then (hootchie-kootchie etc) have proved the good sense of the voters of Tennessee. Let's have some respect for th...
by komal
26 Oct 2016 03:58
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Understanding the United States of America (USA) - III
Replies: 2933
Views: 446470

Re: Understanding the United States of America (USA) - III

Frankly, the Florida vote scam was never proven, it was like the Toyota Runaway Acceleration. Never quite sure if the ppl who complained had any clue what they were doing. Look on the gus-dissed Unmentionable Website, for the new story about "Voted Republican Down The Line, The Ballot WEnt to ...
by komal
26 Oct 2016 03:08
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Understanding the United States of America (USA) - III
Replies: 2933
Views: 446470

Re: Understanding the United States of America (USA) - III

Any votes he got were from Slick Willie admirers. The guy was and is an absolute disaster. LOST to Dubya, for cryin' out loud! Campaign manager should get all due credit for that. He lost to W because W's brother was Governor of Florida and the U. S. Supreme Court intervened and blocked a state man...
by komal
26 Oct 2016 02:58
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Understanding the United States of America (USA) - III
Replies: 2933
Views: 446470

Re: Understanding the United States of America (USA) - III

Didn't know Al Gore HAD a campaign manager, it was such a disastrous campaign. Never mind, I see that she is maintaining her record of being a disaster. Saying "I was Al Gore's Campaign Manager" is a bigger smile-getter than "I was Chief Helmsman on the Titanic" "I was Chie...
by komal
18 Oct 2016 14:54
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Understanding the United States of America (USA) - III
Replies: 2933
Views: 446470

Re: Understanding the United States of America (USA) - III

Where does the western media people find people like Thenmozhi Soundararajan to provide commentary on India and Indian history?
by komal
15 Oct 2016 17:57
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Understanding the United States of America (USA) - III
Replies: 2933
Views: 446470

Re: Understanding the United States of America (USA) - III

I was watching cable news last night (MSNBC) and they had one of obvious Indian origin (Hari Sevugan) and one of Indian or Pakistani origin (Sabrina Siddiqui). Neither's background was mentioned and the discussion was entirely about campaign strategy. I have been in the USA for many decades. My firs...
by komal
03 Oct 2016 19:23
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: Army strikes terror camps in PoK
Replies: 2258
Views: 496069

Re: Army strikes terror camps in PoK

Shivaji wrote:Baramulla retaliation in quick time:

https://twitter.com/TimesNow/status/782921120185880576

120 mm mortar used. Firing upto 6 km inside enemy territory.
Am completely unfamiliar with matters military. Would use of cruise missiles be effective in LOC? Or would that be viewed as an escalation?
by komal
01 Oct 2016 05:15
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: Army strikes terror camps in PoK
Replies: 2258
Views: 496069

Re: Army strikes terror camps in PoK

In 1999, India was close to being a pariah state. The U. S. Congress was solidly pro-Pakistani with people like Jesse Helms and Dan Burton. My own representative went to India and reported to us constituents about the brutal treatment the Indians were meting out to peace loving Muslims in Kashmir. A...
by komal
30 Sep 2016 19:58
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: Army strikes terror camps in PoK
Replies: 2258
Views: 496069

Re: Army strikes terror camps in PoK

Guys, talking about TSP response, here is my take. Look, for them the status quo is to restore equal equal in letter and spirit. And this, they can count on USA and China. So whatever they do, military/political/terror, this will be their objective. And USA will come out with its "both sides&q...
by komal
28 Sep 2015 12:33
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Sunni Terrorist Fragments of Unstable Pakistan-Sept 05, 2015
Replies: 2850
Views: 351301

Re: Sunni Terrorist Fragments of Unstable Pakistan-Sept 05,

Again, in the 1980s, Mrs. Gandhi sent emissaries to warn the Reagan Administration of the long-term consequences of siding with Islamic fundamentalists in the Afghan War. Reagan's people listened politely but felt they could ride the tiger. Mrs. Gandhi was right and the USA was again wrong. Ironica...
by komal
28 Sep 2015 12:09
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Sunni Terrorist Fragments of Unstable Pakistan-Sept 05, 2015
Replies: 2850
Views: 351301

Re: Sunni Terrorist Fragments of Unstable Pakistan-Sept 05,

>>Nehru wore his anti-Americanism on his sleeve and was very proud of that much like his pseudo-secularism. And his braying fm Krishna Menon did the same in a sustained way and for a long time as well... Preaching all sorts of idealistic nonsense without the power to back it up in almost any way. T...