Had IT not kicked off? Well it did. And you know why? Globalisation. That's why. If it wasn't Indians, it would be somebody else. You know why IT is big in India? Because of the 1984 policy which was combined with the LTFP policy brought by the then Rajiv Gandhi goverment.
Today we employ Americans in India and a few of them are just crap. Know to talk English well, worked for a few months and we kicked them back, realising Indians do a better job.
And please, dont give us crap about 'legal' and 'illegal'. Coming from a person with an American flag that is a joke. By the way, do you think the drone strikes happening in Pakistan are legal?
Let me address all your concerns:
Globalization: bull crap. You were given jobs initially to save American tax payers dollars. Cheap labor is cheap labor. Period. By introducing Indians, if I take your 'smartness' into account. Which company did you take to a level never seen before? The only thing you did, was to create the financial mess due to jobs being outsourced.
The policy you are referring to, was created to kick Muslims out of your country to Saudi Arabia etc. THAT was what you guys was doing and some people made money off it by BPO. Thus, the globalization started behind a curtain of lies and money being paid as bribe to get business. The rest was due to 'cheap labor' not to get the supermen. lol
You employ Americans? I am SURE you do. I've personally kicked out a lot of Indians like you, who show up on other peoples papers and can't do the work and lie on their resume. Whoever thinks Indians are all smart...is smoking illegal pipes. There are many dumb as sh** people too. Just like in every culture. But I've kept the good ones and they are nice and hard working and educated. They don't thump their chests like idiots here. Nor do they tell everyone how 'superior' they are. Cuz they've learned they are not. That's reality. Being a geek and program for 20 hours a day might seem fun to you and a show of your 'smartness' but others can workout, play golf and close a $ 50 million deal in those 20 hours. I'll let you pick what 'smart' means!!!
The smartness didn't come to India in an Alien ship. In fact, the Iranians, the Israelis, the Pakistanis, the Chinese, etc have the same aptitude too.
As far as drone strikes are concerned, its sad if they are killing civilians. BUT it is essential to the US national security that we root out the terrorists. In fact, my version is the on 9-12, there should've been MASSIVE airstrikes on the Afghan targets. We could see the OBL gang from the Sats. So no asking or telling anyone, a massive airstrike and level ANYTHING that looks like an Al-Qaeda hideout. I guarantee you, we'd have killed OBL and if not, we'd have killed 75% of his people and destroy 80% of their infrastructure. THAT would've avoided a war that gave these MOFO's time to hide.
One day, the fight will go to India to kill terrorists that rape Kashmiri women and kill Kashmiri children. Hindu terrorist that burn mosques, burn Christian villages and kill minorities when they are in their homes. I'd love to see those captured too. What do YOU think about that?
Btw, this past years or so was great. OBL and his Hindu cousin Baal Thakrey are both dead and burning in hell. Sounds peace to me!!!