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Originally Posted by Lebenz
Doesn’t the guy’s pattern of activities strike you strike you as wandering ever further away from the needs of anyone in this country?
While India is a trading partner, and a major source of lost US jobs, to what gain is there by advancing this technology for them? Is it simply the case if we don’t sell the stuff to them the French or Russians or China will?
Isn’t the duplicity of encouraging India to advance this technology all while back handing other countries for the same thing just a little evident?
And this for little other than their permitting international inspections and mangos. It seems an exercise at something between hubris and pimping.
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Get out your pocket globe and look at it. Look at the populations. India has a billion people in a relatively benign democracy that has been pretty stable for 30 years or so.
Look to the left of India. Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq. Any questions?
Look north and northeast of India. China. Over a billion people living in an unstable People's Paradise. Any questions?
Look east of India. The basket-case of Bangladesh. Any questions?
Look southeast of India. Indonesia. A population of a half-billion mostly Muslims in an oil and mineral-rich archipelago consisting of thousands of islands spread over several tens of thousands of square miles. Any questions?
India is changing from a statist-socialist system to an entrepreneurial capitalist system. The people are very bright and hard working. They are intentionally working through and dismantling this hideously oppressive caste system. They have more minorities with larger populations than North America and yet the country is stable.
They have nukes. China and Pakistan, with whom India has fought border wars for decades, also have nukes. So far nobody has lobbed them. Since they all went 'nukular' the border wars have all but ceased.
Failing to align with a stable democracy with a demonstrable record of human rights that is virtually surrounded by hostile, jealous, non-democratic countries would be unconscionable.
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