In complete humiliation for India the Congress has allowed the US to occupy Mumbai, the financial capital of the country. An aircraft carrier is patrolling off shore, cruisers are anchored in the harbor, US aircraft are patrolling our skies, 500 FBI agents are in the city and 40 armed marines are in the hotel. It is no use asking whether any of our lot can demand the same when visiting the US because the US knows that they are so despised in India that no one cares. The question is whether Obama insulted the Chinese in quite the same way. After a ' shellacking ' in the midterm polls he is clearly in no position to make any strategic offer like Bush did but is here purely as a salesman. Which is good. We should do big business with the US and sign off on billion dollar contracts. That will create jobs in the US and give us lobbying power. Also it is much better to buy US goods than Chinese garbage. At least the US has rule of law and if the contracts are worked out correctly they will be reliable business partners as opposed to the barbaric Chinese who react savagely even if they are in the wrong as the recent episode with the Japanese so clearly illustrated. However before spending Indian money we should tie in our demands to any deal. First, their must be no repeat of Union Carbide. Anyone guilty of killing Indians will receive the same sort of punishments that the americans regularly dish out to others. Secondly, F 16s, night vision goggles, smart bomb kits are also ' dual use ' in that they may be used as effectively against India as against the Taliban. F 14s and Patton tanks have been so used in the past. The US understands strength and despises weakness. Show them.