Thanks and great post by yourself.
The N. Alliance factions don't love India--they will just take any support to stay in power.
No country can 'love' another country. That is as silly as saying one company loves another. Coca Cola loves Mcdonalds or Toyota loves Suzuki. Nations are just larger organizations than comanpanies with a differant memorandum of association. Therefore to say "love" or such terms in context of nations is absurd but I use it in context of general discussion on PDf and to make it simpler to convey a point.
The only people who seem to be ignorant of that are in American media (and perhaps other Western media) and American political class.
Incorrect they all
understand it even more clearly then the developing world does. Indeed keeping a eye on self interest and running a country along Machavillian lines is a religious statecraft in the west. The west has developed
incredibly refined manners behind which hides deciet, conciet and the only thing that matters is they advance their self interest. All is fair including war, murder, genocide theft as long as the come out better. All this ugliness is covered up with smiles, manners, fancy suits, big talk, diplomatic niceties.
The west [although frankly this applies to all successful states like Japan, South Korea, Singapore, China etc] also display some other patterns. Their ruling elites, their capitalist ventures, their military complex, industry, economic complex and yes their media are all on the same page. The media you mention are singing to the tune that their countries play to. It is not that they are ignorant but more that they play the tune to the needs of their societies. Truth be told their media is not free really. All media in most developed world play to the saying "who pays the piper plays the tune". Media are owned by large financiers etc which are part of the ruling elite of those states. So they won't print anything that goes against the recognized national consnsus.
In Pakistan we have no consensus. Indeed in Pakistan we have too much democracy. We have to much diversity of views. USA a country of two political parties. Republicans and Democrats. The differances between both are such that if they stand together you cannot even slip a thread between them. Then compare Pakistan.
On the subject of media why not look at Indian media. They are extremly nationalistic and there is little room for dissent. Then compare our media which by comparison is a sell out.
