Tuesday, August 05, 2008

Seems that it is certain that the Nuclear Deal offered by the US will be clean but may not be unconditional. I fail to understand why the US expects us Indians to be grateful to be offered a clean deal. I would have thought that all international deals must be clean without exception. Does this mean that the US has been making dirty deals before now and our government has spent years and millions of dollars in diplomacy just to get a clean deal? So what were the dirty deals the US made in the past? Perhaps the deal that locked Native Americans into Reservations to die prematurely of boredom, alcoholism and life style diseases. Or the deal that supplied chemical weapons to Saddam Hussein of Iraq to use on Kurds and Iranians. Or the deal with Iran that supplied illegal arms to Contra terrorists in Nicaragua to try and bring down Daniel Ortega's government which has been reelected to power. Or the deal that gave billions of dollars in aid to Zia Ul Haq of Pakistan to set up an army of students called the Taliban to fight the Soviets in Afghanistan, the same Taliban which is taking a heavy toll of Coalition Forces in Afghanistan today. The Indian government must go through every word, comma and semicolon to see that the deal we make is indeed squeaky clean and does not come back to haunt us in the future. After all Saddam was a great friend of the US and look what happened to him. Even now they speak with forked tongue.

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