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- 09 Nov 2010 11:41
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Analyzing Realistic Outcomes of America's Af-Pak Adventure
- Replies: 46
- Views: 6980
Analyzing Realistic Outcomes of America's Af-Pak Adventure
We had explored this question in a poll shortly after the London Conference on Afghanistan, where SM Krishna was relegated to back-bencher status and India's viewpoint largely ignored. I think it's time to look at it again, with perhaps slightly fewer and more stark choices. Essentially, there are t...
- 09 Nov 2010 05:05
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Pres. Obama's visit.
- Replies: 393
- Views: 56214
Re: Pres. Obama's visit.
So the great success stories of Obama's visit are 1) Lifting of restrictions on Indian entities. Hmm. So we're to be thankful that sanctions, unjustly imposed, are now being removed. And we're to treat their removal as a favour... a "plus"... a sign of a "burgeoning strategic partners...
- 06 Nov 2010 03:33
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: People's Republic of China Nov 22, 2009
- Replies: 3245
- Views: 558240
Re: People's Republic of China Nov 22, 2009
-By now Chini is more confident(that anything goes) and start shitting overtly ...............using abuses like idiot and stupid etc. For them it is normal because that is how they are addressed by superiors in China. . Let him fail to argue rationally and get to that point of shitting overtly no? ...
- 06 Nov 2010 03:25
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: People's Republic of China Nov 22, 2009
- Replies: 3245
- Views: 558240
Re: People's Republic of China Nov 22, 2009
Right. Replying to easily-punctured arguments with "get out" does not indicate any possibility of intellectual bankruptcy, and anyone who points out that it does, must of course be a WKK.
- 06 Nov 2010 02:29
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: People's Republic of China Nov 22, 2009
- Replies: 3245
- Views: 558240
Re: People's Republic of China Nov 22, 2009
I agree with Harbans. Nothing WLin has said (so far) constitutes trolling. He has his own viewpoint and he has put it forward without overtly flamebaiting anybody. If we cannot counter even the fallacious points he brings up (so easy to do in a level-headed way), but must instead holler at him to &q...
- 05 Nov 2010 11:34
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: People's Republic of China Nov 22, 2009
- Replies: 3245
- Views: 558240
Re: People's Republic of China Nov 22, 2009
So is this actual Indian Government policy? Or is it just wishful thinking on your part? As you say, you only got 6 mintues to make the D. Remember, the point of nuclear deterance is not just punishment after the fact. It is to never have that exchange in the first place. You don't seem to realize ...
- 05 Nov 2010 10:10
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: People's Republic of China Nov 22, 2009
- Replies: 3245
- Views: 558240
Re: People's Republic of China Nov 22, 2009
I think our esteemed Chinese visitors may be in danger of deluding themselves about a couple of things, regarding a nuclear exchange scenario between India and Pakistan. Their opinion seems to be that, regardless of the savage BR-Jingo urge to punish China for nuclear proliferation to Pakistan, the ...
- 04 Nov 2010 11:00
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: People's Republic of China Nov 22, 2009
- Replies: 3245
- Views: 558240
Re: People's Republic of China Nov 22, 2009
"Bloody Map" tracks violent evictions http://shanghaiist.com/2010/11/03/bloody_map_tracks_violent_evictions.php Welcome back, Xian Sheng! I hope you will let us in on some home truths more often. Too many of your compatriots here have nothing more to offer than the usual spin, and it's re...
- 04 Nov 2010 10:23
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: US and PRC relationship & India
- Replies: 2030
- Views: 338854
Re: US and PRC relationship & India
Interesting, the Japan analogy. Of course, the Japanese peril of the 80s took care of itself. Mainly because of Japan following the global free-market rules of currency valuation (the Yen became a monster, increasing the costs of Japanese exports and also forcing production to move overseas) and als...
- 29 Oct 2010 09:04
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: BR Mumbai Meet- Late Dec 2010/Early Jan 2011
- Replies: 48
- Views: 11379
Re: BR Mumbai Meet- Late Dec 2010/Early Jan 2011
I will be in Mumbai Dec second week through Jan 3rd. Would love to attend if at all possible.
Kapil, sending you email now!
Kapil, sending you email now!
- 29 Oct 2010 08:50
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: BRF Mid-Atlantic Meet 2010 (NJ-PA-NY-DE and beyond)
- Replies: 98
- Views: 21579
Re: BRF Mid-Atlantic Meet 2010 (NJ-PA-NY-DE and beyond)
Ok, finally! Sorry for the prolonged silence on this topic. I had family visiting from Desh and got very busy. So the status as it is. The following people have posted on this forum AND sent me email regarding the BRF-Mid Atlantic jirga 2010: Yantra, RamaY, Amitava, Guddu, Negi, Ravi-ku, Jagan, Kris...
- 30 Sep 2010 21:17
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Should India leave UN, if we don't get a veto seat in UNSC?
- Replies: 155
- Views: 20650
Re: Should India leave UN, if we don't get a veto seat in UN
In the future, P5 may downsized to P3 (USA, EU and China), and even if all the rest world quit, it is still the P3 dominate the world politics, since the three would be more than enough to control the world's most wealth and power by then. . The US and EU will never allow China to be elevated to no...
- 30 Sep 2010 20:37
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Should India leave UN, if we don't get a veto seat in UNSC?
- Replies: 155
- Views: 20650
Re: Should India leave UN, if we don't get a veto seat in UN
No leaving is like acting like a spoilt child. What do we do from the outside? Just show how useless it is from the inside by telling the security council to go jerk off when they act stupid. Agreed. Far better to remain within and undermine at every turn. We can undermine more effectively from ins...
- 28 Sep 2010 01:38
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: J & K news and discussion
- Replies: 3371
- Views: 475171
Re: J & K news and discussion
Not only that. Outside the urban centers of the Kashmir valley, who do you suppose is the BIGGEST customer in J&K for the local wood-choppers, goat-herders, cart-pullers, poultry farmers, vegetable vendors, tailors, mechanics, construction labourers, drivers, mule tenders, small manufacturers, b...
- 28 Sep 2010 00:42
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: BRF Mid-Atlantic Meet 2010 (NJ-PA-NY-DE and beyond)
- Replies: 98
- Views: 21579
Re: BRF Mid-Atlantic Meet 2010 (NJ-PA-NY-DE and beyond)
Looks like we have a winner! BRF Mid-Atlantic Meet 2010 will be held on the weekend of November 13th-14th. All who are interested, please email me at rudradev.brf ATT gmail DAWT com And please also post here that you emailed me, to authenticate! Please indicate in your email 1) Choice of venue: Phil...
- 25 Sep 2010 02:36
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan (TSP): Sep 03, 2010
- Replies: 2841
- Views: 491583
Re: Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan (TSP): Sep 03, 20
Nandu, here you go : http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xexhf3_massacre-by-fithy-napak-murtad-kafi_news Ashley, Thanks very much for posting it to Dailymotion. One request though. The title of the video as you have posted it is "Massacre by fithy Napak murtad kafir Paki Army in Swat." This ...
- 17 Sep 2010 09:57
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Indian Interests
- Replies: 6458
- Views: 828466
Re: Indian Interests
It's not about "stable" or "unstable" Pakistan... as absolute adjectives those words are meaningless. It's about each external power seeking to titrate Pakistan's instability to a specific calibrated extent that best serves its own purposes. Of all external powers with significan...
- 17 Sep 2010 08:46
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: J & K news and discussion
- Replies: 3371
- Views: 475171
Re: J & K news and discussion
Should make it obvious what gallery P. Chidambaram has been playing to in all this.
- 16 Sep 2010 03:45
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Managing Chinese Threat
- Replies: 5192
- Views: 728814
Re: Managing Chinese Threat
Were they Indian sources based in Delhi — or Indian “analysts” comfortably located in Singapore? :mrgreen: did you notice this? It's a snide dig at the C.Raja Mohan & Rajesh Basrur type analysts from Nanyang University, Singapore, who seem to be unfailingly pro-Washington in their analyses. Sho...
- 16 Sep 2010 03:40
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan (TSP): Sep 03, 2010
- Replies: 2841
- Views: 491583
Re: Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan (TSP): Sep 03, 20
i think not, Unkil doesn't like rivals Actually the Clinton-Wilsonians (Warren Christopher, Madeleine Albright and their mentor Zbigniew Brzezinski) are very much in favour of the whole G2 setup. They have concerns about the US becoming overstretched, and would rather share the responsibility of en...
- 16 Sep 2010 03:25
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: People's Republic of China Nov 22, 2009
- Replies: 3245
- Views: 558240
Re: People's Republic of China Nov 22, 2009
The problem with being the mad dog in the region is that if you set the line too low. ( ie instead of the line being at "threat to existance", the line is at first nuke use by pakistan, no matter now small the damage is) You actually invites massive nuclear first strike. What if Pakistan ...
- 16 Sep 2010 02:14
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Should HH The Dalai Lama be elected India's next President?
- Replies: 280
- Views: 32725
Re: Should HH The Dalai Lama be elected India's next Preside
Interesting idea. I think the most useful suggestion to come out of this thread is the one by Bade that an Arunachali be made President of India, or at any rate, definitely someone from the Northeast. It's high time these folks got their turn anyway, and that appreciation is shown to the steadfast l...
- 14 Sep 2010 23:06
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Counter Propaganda
- Replies: 46
- Views: 7869
Re: Counter Propaganda
Thanks Kanson and AbhiG. The HRW report linked by Kanson is a good one, because even though it is full of other unsubstantiated allegations about Indian security forces it still admits that the IA prosecutes personnel who are charged with rape. Anyone else heard of "IA beating an 8-year-old to ...
- 14 Sep 2010 19:58
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Counter Propaganda
- Replies: 46
- Views: 7869
Re: Counter Propaganda
Urgent: References Needed Hi all, Need these references urgently to counter statements made in a social circle where I usually do not usually engage in any political discussion, but where a discussion on J&K happened to take place yesterday. I spoke up when the BS level got too much. Now I have...
- 10 Sep 2010 07:59
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Pak Occupied Kashmir News and Discussion
- Replies: 600
- Views: 95119
Re: Pak Occupied Kashmir News and Discussion
^^ A sudden thrust by Indian forces into POK will definitely surprise PLA. I think we can have complete air superiority over POK airspace within the first 100 Hrs. I am counting on China not opening a second front. Please correct me if I am wrong. Altairji, I don't think air superiority is the issu...
- 05 Sep 2010 21:15
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: India-US Strategic News and Discussion
- Replies: 3942
- Views: 690128
- 03 Sep 2010 02:53
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Pak Occupied Kashmir News and Discussion
- Replies: 600
- Views: 95119
Re: Pak Occupied Kashmir News and Discussion
Probably even declaring a reward of dollars for any PLA soldier now in POK, kidnapped and delivered to Indian hands. Now you just sinked to the level of the tali-bunnies. This is beneath a country like India. Though not beneath a country like China, apparently. China has repeatedly intervened in th...
- 02 Sep 2010 10:42
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: India-US Strategic News and Discussion
- Replies: 3942
- Views: 690128
Re: India-US Strategic News and Discussion
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7178687.html See the comments. One 400% Paki calling itself "ICare" has used the Comments section to slander the RSS, and Hindus in general. This scum bag is a Hindu RSS leader. His friend and fellow RSS leader D C Nath gave an interview in ...
- 31 Aug 2010 12:23
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: India Nuclear News And Discussion
- Replies: 4936
- Views: 785621
Re: India Nuclear News And Discussion
The point here isn't "supplier liability", it is explicit supplier immunity which Manmohan Singh was trying to wriggle into the Nuclear Liability Bill until the very last minute, clearly on behalf of American suppliers whose profits are far more impotant to him than the welfare of the Indi...
- 26 Aug 2010 02:36
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan (TSP): Aug 09, 2010
- Replies: 2823
- Views: 442007
Re: Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan (TSP): Aug 09, 20
HNair, KrishG... nice work you guys! Keep 'em coming.
- 26 Aug 2010 02:30
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: BRF Mid-Atlantic Meet 2010 (NJ-PA-NY-DE and beyond)
- Replies: 98
- Views: 21579
Re: BRF Mid-Atlantic Meet 2010 (NJ-PA-NY-DE and beyond)
Ok gentlemen, here is an update: I personally am not free on any weekend throughout September, or the first two weekends in October. Here are the suggested options for the Jirga dates. Any who are interested in attending, please specify a preference. 1) Sunday October 17th (Saturday 16th is not poss...
- 26 Aug 2010 00:21
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: India Nuclear News And Discussion
- Replies: 4936
- Views: 785621
Re: India Nuclear News And Discussion
The last-minute alteration to Clause 17a/b of the Nuclear Liability Bill is no mere smoking gun... it is a stinking corpse that has tumbled directly out of Manmohan Singh's closet. There can be no doubt now whose interests the GOI is really plugging with this mechanism to absolve future Warren Ander...
- 25 Aug 2010 08:35
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Options for India to provide relief to flood victims in Af-P
- Replies: 76
- Views: 10145
Re: Options for India to provide relief to flood victims in
Remember the Turkish "aid flotilla" to Gaza?
There is a lot that can be accomplished by large, visible missions of aid (don't have to be seaborne)... especially if attended with lots of media fanfare and including many foreign, particularly gora, activists/volunteers among their personnel.
There is a lot that can be accomplished by large, visible missions of aid (don't have to be seaborne)... especially if attended with lots of media fanfare and including many foreign, particularly gora, activists/volunteers among their personnel.
- 19 Aug 2010 09:27
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Non-Western Worldview
- Replies: 1097
- Views: 209007
Re: Non-Western Worldview
Rudradev mahashay, Very nice exposition of the history of the "third" school in "europe". But I am a bit surprised that you referred to Savitri Devi in your writing. Irrespective of the fact that many German philosphers (even American) took inspiration from Sanatana Dharma, asso...
- 18 Aug 2010 02:33
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Indian Interests
- Replies: 6458
- Views: 828466
Re: Indian Interests
Sanku, good to see you again. Your perspective was missed.
- 18 Aug 2010 02:28
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Geopolitical thread
- Replies: 3955
- Views: 596992
Re: Geopolitical thread
Thanks for your kindnesses, gentlemen.
- 17 Aug 2010 11:31
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan (TSP): Aug 09, 2010
- Replies: 2823
- Views: 442007
Re: Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan (TSP): Aug 09, 20
If india is do any thing inside TSP. It must be under the Indian Flag and not under teh UN flag. Let the khans work under the UN flag if they are so anxious to help TSP. The point is not for India to DO anything... the Pakis will have a meltdown at the implied blow to H&D and refuse the idea in...
- 17 Aug 2010 09:55
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan (TSP): Aug 09, 2010
- Replies: 2823
- Views: 442007
Re: Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan (TSP): Aug 09, 20
India ready to give more aid but Pak silent http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/India-ready-to-give-more-aid-but-Pak-silent/articleshow/6322057.cms *sigh* Nothing to feel bad about. India is clear that it can send humanitarian relief 50 km across the border within one hour. But Pakistanis want...
- 17 Aug 2010 09:10
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: India-US Strategic News and Discussion
- Replies: 3942
- Views: 690128
Re: India-US Strategic News and Discussion
^^For once I find myself agreeing with AmberG. All immigrants to the United States faced xenophobia-- often violent xenophobia. This did not stop the Irish from waving their flags as they marched on St. Patricks' Day... it is all fun and games now but once upon a time it was a defiant display of sol...
- 17 Aug 2010 08:29
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Geopolitical thread
- Replies: 3955
- Views: 596992
Re: Geopolitical thread
But the question is why in the first place would they want to give false information about India and Indians/Hindus for the last 50 years. Or Even for 100 years As I understood based on my reading, Americans inherited their views of Indians from the British and the Missionaries. You are one of the ...