Imperial America's Next Target India

[asad71]

Posted 07 May 2011 - 10:08 PM
St. Paul Pioneer Press (Minnesota)
Neocon Logic Makes India the Next Target for U.S. War
by Har N. Shukla

Now that we have established democracy in Afghanistan and soon will we accomplish that in Iraq after Sunday's elections, we must wage the next war in India for the following top 10 reasons:

1. India is linked to al-Qaida because its prime minister looks like Osama bin Laden. Actually, Osama is hiding in India in the garb of a Sikh, and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is protecting him in his home state Punjab. Also, India is a logical choice because its name starts with "I" and the world cannot accuse us of invading only Muslim countries.

2. India has weapons of mass destruction and is a constant threat to our key ally Pakistan. Pakistan's WMD are now benign because A.Q. Khan is under house arrest and can no longer indulge in nuclear proliferation.

3. India falsely accuses Pakistan of cross-border terrorism. We cannot believe India because Pakistan, a model democracy, is fighting the war on terrorism with us.

4. India boasts the largest democracy in the world. Actually, their democracy is phony. They have too many political parties and their parliament is in perpetual pandemonium. We must teach them real democracy and the virtues of a civilized two-party system.

5. Communists have ruled two of India's states, West Bengal and Kerala, for decades and successive Indian governments in New Delhi have done nothing to ban the Communist party. India is a socialist country, and it always supported the Soviet Union in the United Nations in the cold war era.

6. Women in India are not free; they still wear saris and put bindis on their foreheads. India is a weird country — Hindus believe in many gods and reincarnation. They worship cows and don't eat beef. Civilization has not reached there yet.

7. India is now charging us more than the minimum U.S. wages for the outsourced programming jobs. How can we contain inflation in the United States if the Indians wildly increase their labor costs?

8. The Indian government is very slow in privatizing the public sector. The government is still in the business of running steel, oil, defense, insurance and banking industries. They are not opening up these industries fast enough for the American companies to invest.

9. Government jobs and college admissions are doled out based on the caste system in India. People of color in the USA are demanding the same treatment here in the name of affirmative action.

10. India has a bad influence on our Western culture: yoga is spreading like a wild fire and the Americans are increasingly using Sanskrit words such as pundit, guru and mantra to show off their vocabulary prowess.

Shukla of Shoreview, Minnesota immigrated to the United States from India. He is a real estate agent and retired engineer.

 

[asad71]

1. Throughout history imperial/colonial powers have craved Indes'/Hindustan's fabled wealth. Except the Romans and Huns no one left India unattended. They conquered even for the sake of conquest. They invaded to loot. They came to stay.

2.Imperial America is now power drunk. See the revelry after killing a dead Shaykh. They want more.

3. There are other reasons too. India has been trying to toe somewhat independent line when America called. This was not appreciated. ME wars and Afghan conquest are examples when India refused base facility to USA. India is an irritation to US planners, diplomats and conquerors. Lately she has demanded a permanent seat in UNSC. She is getting too large for her boots.

4. USA must be watching India's industrial growth, rise in the highly qualified personnel,tremendous growth of the private sector throwing up couple of US$ billionaires. Is she getting out of control, thinks Uncle Sam?

5. India has been developing her massive mily at a fast pace. Particularly her navy has become source of concern for littoral states of Indian Ocean and S Pacific. Australians are openly distrustful. India is looking for bases all over. She has something in Antarctica also.

6. WCC need a compliant India, not a cocky one. Her vast manpower should be available to slave in WCC's factories, industries and farms. Her soldiers should willingly die for America as they did for Imperial Britain. Her resources should be available to WCC to exploit.

7. But the most important of all is conversion to Christianity. The last pope had famously said, "The first millennium was Europe, second Africa and in this third millennium it will be Asia."And soon thereafter, an unknown Albanian nun was given the Noble and became the famous Mother Teressa. According to activist Tariq Ali, she is still little known in the slums of Kolkata. Vatican has been upset over recent spate of attacks on nurses and killings of priests and nuns covertly and cleverly converting people to their faith.

8. Where WCC went they carried the sword and the bible. They literally destroyed cultures, civilizations and massacred practically the entire population. We in Asia haven't experienced even a percent of what Africans, N and S Americans, Australians, Micronesian or even the Moriscos of Al Andalusia have been through. The missionary, with a pasted false smile, come to us as a teacher, doctor or an NGO these days, never revealing his true mission - conversion through various ruses and tricks and monetary benefit. The pace of conversion, and even forced conversion, in SA shot up in 1858. S Asian communities were divided and subdivided into ethnic and linguistic groups, and the Muslims and Hindus at large were put on a clash course. A good example is Indian film. The bad guy is always a Hindu or a Muslim and a padre is the person they come to for refuge/advise/assistance. Christianity emerges as the Good. And the converting padre reaped the benefit, and continues so.

9. I have been to Arubindo's Island off Kanya Kumari. When looking N to SA in the morning sky, I was shocked to see only tops of churches in India. There was no mosque or 'mandir' that I could make out. Leading schools and hospitals in India are run and owned by missionaries. Christian endowments are v rich. Sonia is a Catholic who had married Rajiv firstly according to Catholic rituals. Rahul was christened by a padre when born, and named Raul Gandhi. So WCC is already in.

10. EHMs (Economic Hit Men) are getting into place. Manmohan Singh - with his IMF background, is said to be one. WB has by now got a good hold of Indian economy. MNCs are in. So the stage is set.

 

[asad71]

The Writing on the Wall: India Checkmates America 2017
General S. Padmanabhan, PVSM, AVSM, VSM (Retd.)

Manas Publishers, New Delhi, 2004

Pages: 300
Price: Rs. 595

It is not often that a former Chief of Army Staff spends his golden years writing fiction. The last one to put pen to paper was General K. Sundarji whose fictional account of nuclear exchanges between India and Pakistan did much to educate India’s political leaders and the policy-making elite, largely unschooled in the finer nuances of national security, about the rudiments of nuclear strategy. Over a decade after Sundarji’s Blind Men of Hindoostan, General Padmanabhan has added a new novel to this genre of writing from former army chiefs. Paddy’s The Writing on the Wall: India Checkmates America 2017 has broken new ground in fictional writing on India’s national security.

Paddy’s optimistic though highly wishful scenario begins with a government of national unity in 2003 that formulates a comprehensive, long-term national security policy. The General argues that since the United States (US) enjoys unprecedented military superiority in a unipolar world, it is increasingly basing its responses to crisis situations affecting its security on the doctrine of pre-emption. This is bound to lead to more and more wars with smaller and weaker nations. Therefore, countries like India should develop their military might to deter war and, if that does not succeed, to respond appropriately to fight and win. He recommends a fully functional nuclear force, a strategically capable air force, viable national missile defence, enhanced Special Forces capabilities and the immediate filling of organisational and equipment voids in the army’s fighting formations.

He also wants the annual defence budget to be scaled up to at least three per cent of the GDP, a well-conceived defence acquisition plan to be launched early and the development of an indigenous military-technological capability with investments in cutting edge technologies that exploit India’s strengths. These are all noble thoughts and the author is convinced that a government of national unity will be able to give effect to them. However, the reality is quite different. National security has never been a priority with India’s politicians and their bureaucrat advisors and this is unlikely to change so easily. If it not politically problematic, India’s policy planners would rather pretend that a problem does not exist than spend time, effort and money to find a solution.

However, in the book General Padmanabhan’s fictional government exhibits the necessary political will when necessary. For example, in retaliation for a Kaluchak-type attack in Jammu in 2008, India attacks and captures the Haji Pir Pass which the army was forced to give back to Pakistan under the Tashkent agreement in 1966. with help form China and Russia, India is admitted as a permanent member of the United Nations (UN) Security Council and succeeds in resolving its territorial and boundary dispute with China in 2008. It joins China and Russia to forge a cooperative Asian security framework and signs a treaty of peace friendship and cooperation with these Asian giants as well as with Vietnam. All these activities do not go down too well with the US that continues to foster Pakistan as a major ally and together the dirty tricks departments of the two nations engender acts of terrorism and instability in India.

Hence, the stage is gradually set for an Indo-Pak conflict which dutifully erupts in 2017. Thanks to the well-conceived defence plans, within two days of the commencement of hostilities, the Pakistan air force is no longer effective and its navy is bottled up. The Indian army then dismembers Pakistan with a sledge-hammer blow through Sind and captures almost all of . The US enters the war on the side of its ally. The US fires Tomahawk land-attack cruise missiles at Hyderabad from a carrier battle group in the Arabian Sea but these are intercepted and destroyed by India’s newly-installed national missile shield. India chooses to respond with its “soft” power. The scene then shifts to the continental US where India unleashes a powerful electro-magnetic pulse (EMP) and launches computer viruses in a “cyber attack” to disrupt communications and command and control computers as well as major commercial centres to plunge US “administration, commerce and banking sectors into chaos.”

Russia and China strongly support India and the US stands isolated in the UN Security Council. The short and sharp war goes badly for Pakistan and the fundamentalist mullahs seize the opportunity to stage a coup to overthrow the military government. This is where the scenario is the least plausible – in its zeal to save its ally, the US almost pleads with India to send in its Special Forces to restore the situation in Pakistan! That would be poetic justice indeed. The UN intervenes, a grateful Pakistani government agrees to handover and the Northern Areas to India and all is well that ends well. India emerges from the 60-hour war with its honour intact and the Kashmir dispute solved once and for all.

It is indeed heartening that despite having served several tenures in Army HQ, including at its helm as the army chief, General Padmanabhan is extremely optimistic that government processes and procedures can be transformed so completely as to be able to take a dispassionate and unbiased view of national security. However, the reality is quite different. Though India has now had a National Security Council for about a decade, it has seldom met to consider the position papers that the National Security Advisory Board (NSAB) occasionally churns out. The NSAB is known to have carried out a comprehensive Strategic Defence Review that is probably gathering dust in some musty wooden almirahs in the corridors of South Block or Patel Bhavan. The Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) meets often enough, but the meetings are basically of the fire-fighting variety to formulate quick responses to emerging situations, particularly those with strong political overtones like the ongoing agitation in Manipur against the Armed Forces Special Powers Act. Very little, if any, thought is actually given to holistic and comprehensive long-term national security planning.

Though not as racy and colourful as a Tom Clancy or a Humphrey Hawksley novel, Gen Padmanabhan’s book has generated immense interest and curiosity as it tracks the trajectory of India’s rise to regional and world power status over almost two decades and culminates in military exchanges with Pakistan and the US in 2017. Predictions, it has been said, are very difficult to make – especially if they are about the future. Whether India’s inevitable future rise will be peaceful, a claim that China is loudly making for its own rise, or whether India will find its place in the sun only through turmoil and conflict, perhaps even with the US, is something that only time will tell. Meanwhile, The Writing on the Wall will serve as a reminder that in a world that is still dominated by realpolitik things can go horribly wrong if a nation’s foreign policy and national security policy do not keep pace with geo-political and geo-economic developments. All members of the policy planning community must read this book even if they find themselves disagreeing with its conflict scenarios and happy ending

 

[Dalai Lama]

Satire...?

 

[Donatello]

India captures Sindh? Prepares a cyber attack on US?

WTF.

Mods please close the thread.

 

[asad71]

Satire...?

You haven't read Post #2; have you? This ain't no satire. This is as real as the Persian - Afghan - Uzbek/Mughal invasions of Hindustan for ever. And the Yankees will push them this time.

 

[Dalai Lama]

You haven't read Post #2; have you? This ain't no satire. This is as real as the Persian - Afghan - Uzbek/Mughal invasions of Hindustan for ever. And the Yankees will push them this time.

Lol okay...

 

[tallboy123]

okkkkkkkk .........

 

[praveen]

You haven't read Post #2; have you? This ain't no satire. This is as real as the Persian - Afghan - Uzbek/Mughal invasions of Hindustan for ever. And the Yankees will push them this time.

High on rhetoric and may be even herbs may be.Why can't bangladeshis invade india if it is so easy

 

[asad71]

High on rhetoric and may be even herbs may be.Why can't bangladeshis invade india if it is so easy

1. Well, who knows? The last conqueror of N India was the Bengal Army under the English Co. Before that it was our hero and monarch Sher Shah Suri.

2. But do please read the posts before embarking on childish comments. IA's Paddy has been a highly respected intellectual in your country - not merely in the mily.

 

[praveen]

1. Well, who knows? The last conqueror of N India was the Bengal Army under the English Co. Before that it was our hero and monarch Sher Shah Suri.

2. But do please read the posts before embarking on childish comments. IA's Paddy has been a highly respected intellectual in your country - not merely in the mily.

The BSF i last heard was givem orders to butcher any bangladeshis near or crossing the border.If any trader escapes cordon of the villages and cull the bugger
by the way Sher shah suri is behari

 

[3rdCoy/9thKar Bn]

1. India is linked to al-Qaida because its prime minister looks like Osama bin Laden. Actually, Osama is hiding in India in the garb of a Sikh, and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is protecting him in his home state Punjab. Also, India is a logical choice because its name starts with "I" and the world cannot accuse us of invading only Muslim countries.


Wow!! this is some serious crap!! ...

@OT-Keep up the good work...we all could need a laugh once in a while.

 

[Bond]

you must be smoking some high quality stuff!!!

1. Well, who knows? The last conqueror of N India was the Bengal Army under the English Co. Before that it was our hero and monarch Sher Shah Suri.

2. But do please read the posts before embarking on childish comments. IA's Paddy has been a highly respected intellectual in your country - not merely in the mily.

 

[praveen]

the english used the madras regiments in war.They never used a bangla regiment(never known for martialness you guys even needed help in 1971 )

 

[3rdCoy/9thKar Bn]

the english used the madras regiments in war.They never used a bangla regiment(never known for martialness you guys even needed help in 1971 )

Chill out mate!!... Give the guy a chance to entertain all of us!!