It is sad to see the United States government show such disrespect to the world’s largest democracy India. India is a nation that is fighting its own war against Islamic terrorists and the relationship between the two nations needs to be much cozier. India also is a natural ally to the United States. Unfortunately our commander-in-chief seems to have a great deal of affection for Pock-ee-stan (probably because it is an Islamic nation). The Pakistani Intelligence Services (the ISI) is loaded with Taliban and al Qaeda sympathizers. I’ve noticed that Obama has not even visited India yet even though he was nearby in Afghanistan.
by Arthur Herman
Some people weren’t at all surprised to see a Pakistani- American trained in Pakistan terrorist camps trying to blow up Times Square. These are the families of the 173 killed in the Mumbai bombing two years ago — and those of a Pakistan-linked bombing in Puna that killed 17 in February.
What New Yorkers were spared, Indians have been suffering for years. Indeed, authorities in New Delhi are still waiting to question another Pakistani-American, David Coleman Headley, a plotter of the Mumbai bombing who’s being held in Chicago — although the Obama administration has been slow to act on their request.
In fact, Obama’s feckless approach to cooperation in the War on Terror has been steadily driving a wedge between the United States and the world’s other big democracy. The partnership with India that George w. Bush carefully built is in shambles — jeopardizing our future in Asia.
One wedge issue is Obama’s deceptively cozy relationship with Pakistan. What the Pentagon and the media trumpet as Pakistan’s new “cooperation” in fighting the Taliban, Indian experts see as simply one jihadist wing of Pakistan’s secret service (the ISI) surreptitiously taking out the others, with our Predator drones doing the shooting.
New Delhi fears Obama is being duped into preparing the way for Pakistan’s domination of neighboring Afghanistan once the US withdraws — and effectively facilitating more terror bombings like Mumbai or those in Afghanistan that have killed more than 100 Indians working there, not to mention more Times Square attempts in this country.
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