Bharat Rakshak

JE Menon

FYI â€“ Extracts from a Q&A at a Press Briefing by Stephen G. Rademaker, US Acting Assistant Secretary, Bureau of International Security and Non-Proliferation, on May 18, 2006 at the Palais de Nations in Geneva - http://www.usmission.ch/Press2006/0518RademakerPress.html QUESTION: Iâ€™d like to g...

JE Menon

>>but if I was in their shoes I would worry more about what the DOD has in store for them

Indeed.

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>>"We are not in a race," he said at a seminar sponsored by the Confederation of Indian Industry. "They have already won the race." Typical rhetorical bullshit, which also happens to be defeatist and an excuse for inaction... Meanwhile, can somebody point me to where the finish l...

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Sadler, my opinion: get both books but read Dixit first before you read Talbott. Subramanian is right about Talbott, i.e. that he is not very popular here... However, his writing is an honest American point of view and not to be dismissed off-hand. Very important for us in understanding what data th...

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>>Also, the detail in these exercises would not be interesting or attractive to a larger audience.

- But perfectly understandable boss... Keep fighting the good fight.

JE Menon

Thanx Vishnu... is there going to be anything on NDTV about Indra-Dhanush?

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Any respect I had for this guy went down the drain after I started reading his column criticising India and processes inherent in the Indian democratic system in the Saudi Gazette in the 1990s.

JE Menon

>>the younger types seem to adjust quite well nowadays having a 'broader outlook' and more exposed to other fauna from tender age. Spot on. I had this unique experience of sitting watching out the window of a car in Chennai as about four expats squeezed into an auto (3 chicks & 1 guy - the lucky...

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Plus now they have the dilemma of whether to accept the post or not... Its an important posting, future world power and all that (so how to say no?), but on arrival no power :P The first few months must have been hell, generally is on most of these capuccino (or cognac) and cigar types, especially o...

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Seems we missed this somehow

. RahulG's views on certain issues in an interview in The Times. Has anyone seen an interview by him in any Indian newspaper?

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0, ... _1,00.html

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Dude we should give you an Oscar or something... tx a lot...

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To be frank, I'm not exactly wearing the t-shirt on this either. May well not work out as hoped - but let us hope that the average Yindoo's greed gets the better of his/her discriminatory tendencies.

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ASPuar, >>As I see it, the problem is that hospital pricing is going to start being geared towards Firangi pockets. If a hospital sees it can charge a foreign patient more, then it will. Absolutely no question about it. What I'm saying is that the price they charge will still be accessible to a grou...

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ASPuar >>JEM, I really dont think encouraging medical tourism is a good idea. By all means, we should build more hospitals, graduate more doctors... but IMO even so we wont have enough space for everyone in India for a good long time. Boss, I’ll have to clarify upfront that I don’t know a whole lot ...

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In the Scott Baldauf article, the airbase is referred to as (Mallus hold on to your coffees)...

"Kalaikundi"

Rough Translation: Bull's Ass

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GJ, that's hilarious....

I hear also under course development is Pyongyang Psychology

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He already has... So as MR reminded GJ, not to worry be happy....

Tx Vishnu

JE Menon

Any way of finding out who this Tripathi was please? His first name and if possible position. First name will do if other data not possible.

JE Menon

A very welcome and quick kick in the nuts for Cohen.

He has become even more transparent lately. Wonder why... maybe he has sensed that the train is leaving the station.

JE Menon

The man is losing it... and I'm just about keeping my cool on this one. Instead of saying build more hospitals and graduate more doctors to accommodate all the Indians and foreigners who need treatment, he says stop foreigners from taking up places "at the expense of Indians" - whatever th...

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Rman, pls check your gmail a/c.

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TSJ, The state department response is the clearest indicator tha Washington was informed about the CM test, IMHO. We can pretty much take it for granted. As for China, they pretty much gave the starter kit for the CM to the Paks so that can be assumed as well. On US-China co-ordination, I am noncomm...

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Is there any declassified paper that looks at (perhaps among other things) the prospects of a nuclear Germany in the post cold war environment? Or a magazine or newspaper article?

JE Menon

Spoken like a true Chankiyan. Japan's behaviour towards Pakisatan may be explained in similar terms as well, I suppose. :D If there were no proliferation, Japan and Germany would have had to submit "forever" to the post-WWII nuclear hegemony. Proliferation, ironically, leads to a less stab...

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Tim, I don't think we are, except that the economic argument to me does not seem to hold much water. I look at it this way though I might be wrong to do so: a few hundred million dollars in equipment sold (or even a couple of billion) does not mean much to Germany/Austria/France/Switzerland now, and...

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There is no question that the state agencies knew about a majority, if not all, of these transactions. From my reading of the situation, the motives tended to vary in degree but they were a combination of: cold war blinders (wrt Pakistan through the 1980s); inertia at the bureaucrat/politician inter...

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OK, I had a feeling I was on the wrong track. Sunil, that bugger is now head of Pepsico Pak? I thought he had become federal commerce minister or something sometime back...

WTF knows. Maybe Humayun is a popular name among the TFTA types in view of antecedents...

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If I'm right, this Humayun A. Khan is none other than Humayun Akhtar Khan, the son of the late Gen. Akhtar Khan - the man who personally oversaw the victory of America over Russia in the cold war :D - late chief of ISI, who died with Zia. Effectively, he was the puppet-master of the Jihadi groups wh...

JE Menon

Well there's the Heavy Industries Taxila, renamed since the AQ Khan affair to

Superior Heavy Industries Taxila

JE Menon

Absolutely. Marvellous book. Thoroughly researched. Written with detachment and style. Meanwhile "Alive & Well in Pakistan - A Human Journey..." - DO NOT BUY IT. Absolute crap. Nothing new. Guy has some width but no depth. Was in Pak for less than a year total I think, went native, but...

JE Menon

Yup. Kgoan... and there we may have the ultimate answer to why the mollycoddling of the military regime in Pak goes on...

Personally, I think it improbable, but given the behaviours being exhibited who can rule out the possibility?

JE Menon

Yes, with people like Stephen Kappes stepping down and that caustic comment from Thomas Twetten (who is reportedly a highly respected individual in the community), things are not looking good. Funny thing is that the CIA's old hands appear (finally) to be coming to the view that the Pakis are up to ...

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Looks like there's a serious pillow-fight going on in DC...

JE Menon

One of the most important things for the US to do would be to reassure the theocrats in Tehran that it has no intention of forcing "regime change", or any other change which might challenge the theocracy - such as a recognition of Israel. It must, however, make clear that it expects Iran t...

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Ramana has stressed a valid point. It is not India's case that Iran needs nukes, and nor will India help it acquire them or offer a protective umbrella. India will not become dependent on the rationality or otherwise of third parties whether it is nukes or any other matter. This is something which t...

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There is no chance of India extending its deterrent capabilities beyond its borders. With Iran, there is a strategic understanding on various issues - and occasional tactical co-ordination for mutual benefit - at least that's the best that can be said based on public info. In any event, Iran is not ...

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>>Although Pachauri may not be a candle-kisser type, but he reminds me of the brilliant British Professor in the movie "Jurassic Park" who was so enamored of his own creation (the Jurassic Park) that he failed to recognize the dangers his creation posed. Yeah, that seems about right. Altho...

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>>And why is R.K. Pachauri plugging the pipeline so hard? He claims to have conceived the scheme, together with Dr. Ali Shams Ardekani of Iran back in the late 1980s (1988, IIRC). Ardekani is now a Dy Foreign Minister in Iran. In those days (IIRC again) he was in charge of Qeshm Island or something ...

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Amazing lack of noise given it's an F828 and the light conditions in several of them... Great photos anyhow.

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