In recent months there has been a lot of debate about the nuclear deal with the US and the blocking tactics of the communists. Our freeloading journalists have written reams on perfidy of the commies, on how they are against progress at any cost and are taking India back to the dark ages. Some have alleged that the commies are taking orders from China to scuttle the deal because it is so good for India that it will make us immensely powerful and on par with the Chinese. If the commies are indeed taking orders from the Chinese to cause national harm they are guilty of treason and should be tried for such. However, no one has said if this delay and debate has been good or bad for the country. I have not read the details in the treaty but lots of pundits have gone through the details and most scientists seem to be of the view that it is good for India. In so far that it has drawn attention to what we have to give for nuclear assistance it is a good thing. After all we have to remember the record of the Congress party since independence. Apparently the first Chief of the Indian Army, General Cariappa, begged for twentyfour hours to repel all infiltrators from Kashmir but Nehru did not oblige. Instead he went to the UN and we have been left with the problem ever since. It was also Nehru who signed Panchsheel with Chou En Lai and coined the phrase 'Hindi Chini bhai bhai '. Well we know what happened and not only is China still occupying over fifty thousand square miles of Indian territory it is demanding Arunachal which is a part of India. Lal Bahadur Shastri signed away all Pakistani territory occupied by India at great cost for nothing in return and Indira Gandhi returned over 90,000 prisoners of war after the infamous Shimla Agreement which Bhutto had no intention of honouring. Although the intentions of the commies are suspect it was good to draw attention to what the Congress Prime Minister had signed.