Wednesday, December 01, 2010

So far, so not much. A lot of unnecessary drama about releases of US State department documents by Wikileaks. The first tranche of some 3000 documents released have not been embarrassing for any country so far. They show US diplomats doing the jobs they were appointed to do and providing personal assessments of countries and their leaders where they are posted. The language is restrained and, at times, scholarly, not what people, bought up on Hollywood movies, would expect from Americans. Anyone who has worked in the middle east would know that Arab leaders would view Iran's nuclear program with particular alarm. Arabs and Persians are ancient enemies but even that is less then the hatred between Shias and Sunnis. King Abdullah's desire to cut of 'the head of the snake ' is pretty mild. It is surprising that he was not more forthcoming on the stupidity of George Bush in getting rid of Saddam Hussein who had kept the Shias in Iraq under control. With him gone and Shias ruling the country, Iran's influence on the southern third of the country has increased infinitely which also gives them access to a long land border with Saudi Arabia. The assessment of India's cowardice is as I have long suspected. A million strong armed forces, Border Security Force, Indo Tibetan Border Police, trillions spent on aircraft and weapons, all fit for poncing around in fancy dress during the Republic Day parades. They have been emasculated by criminally selfish politicians and civil servants who have personal financial interests in the west. Their ' moral high ground ' is to allow Pakis to murder our citizens without fear. Internal enemies.

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