US
India Alliance
And Global Equations
By Ram Puniyani
15 March, 2006
Countercurrents.org
When
George W.Bush visited India, it was a mixed reaction from this country.
While the Government was laying vacuum cleaned red carpet, its allies
were protesting on the streets. A section of progressive liberals was
joining them and different shades of Muslims protested under different
banners. Most of media was jubilant, and only a miniscule of commentators
raised the question as to why after decades of ignoring India why US
administration is deciding to become pro India? One recalls that India
had to slog the hard way to build its industrial and educational infrastructure
without any help from the US. This biggest democracy of ours was not
in the right books of the US, so why this current oozing of warmth from
the mightiest of mighty nation?
The signing of the nuclear
deal is just a small part of the whole relationship. US is roping India
into its camp. Indian government, overwhelmed by the glamour and power
of US might, has a feeling that it is getting its due from the most
powerful country. The global equations are changing and this one marks
the serious turn. So far till the decades of 1980 US was battling and
demonizing the USSR, which happened to be the other mighty pole of World
power. During the cold war era US faced a stiff challenge to its agenda
of World domination from USSR. US did replace the declining colonial
states like UK, France and Holland at places. Its policies during this
time mainly supported the dictators and despots, it propped up the regimes
which were dead opposed to democratic values and went on to the extent
of mauling the Vietnamese nationalism with napalm bombs.
It is another matter that
Vietnam turned the tide and US had to bite the dust in its hegemonic
ambitions. US is the only power in the World to have used the nuclear
bomb so far. It had unleashed a massive propaganda war against communism
to back up its global policy. It could smell a communist rat every where
before it had to launch its military cat to pounce on the independence
of small and weak countries. Examples abound, Iran 1953, Chile 1973
being two standing out and showing the intent of US imperialism and
its lust for global resources. Its policies in due course led to rise
of fundamentalism in various countries. In Iran when it overturned Mossadeq
and installed Raza Shah Pehlavi as the ruler, whose policies in turn
led to frustration and rebellion which got usurped by Ayatollah Khomeini.
Taliban was another outcome of US policies.
It propped up AL Qaeda to
fight against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. As per the Kissinger
doctrine, "Asians should fight Asians". It did not want to
repeat its mistake in Vietnam and set up mechanisms to train the young
Muslims as fighters under the garb of Jihad. The support to Al Qaeda,
Osama, its ally, was to the extent of 8000 million dollars and 7000
tons of armaments including the dreaded stringer missiles. With the
defeat of USSR the subsequent events led to the rise of Taliban.
US intervention in the world,
after the collapse of USSR was much easier. It now floated the theory
of 'Clash of Civilizations', the battle between the advanced Western
civilization and the backward Islamic civilization. The intensity of
propaganda and doctoring of mass consciousness was intense and formed
the base of US aggression against Iraq (1991) Afghanistan (2001) and
Iraq (2003). Now it is planning to occupy Iran on one or the other pretext.
The battle in the World is projected as the clash of civilizations,
religions to hide the basic aim of controlling the oil resources and
political hegemony.
Islam is a threat to World
is the new slogan coined by US to occupy the oil rich zone, which also
happens to be Muslim. This slogan has replaced its earlier one of communism
as the threat to democracy and freedom, whose custodianship is supposed
to be with this friend-in-chief of most of the dictators. It has trampled
UN, by bypassing it to begin with and now by totally ignoring it in
the new designs as the World emperor.
The changing dynamics of
development is seeing that China is coming up strong and fast as a potential
super power. US will undertake every possible move to create and alliance
which is formidable and can take on the other superpower in case it
comes in the way of US designs on the political and economic control
of the World. India by now has come up with a substantial industrial
and military prowess to act as one of the junior partners of US in the
new scenario. The new found love of US for India is based on this practical
calculation; it is based on its own ambition to be bale to continue
its domination on the World.
The section of Indian elite
and middle class is in total awe of this super bully. So from last one
decade it has been making all overtures to US to be accepted as its
cohort. It offered its bases during its aggression on Afghanistan and
now has voted against Iran on the nuclear issue. Not to see this long
term interest of US to checkmate China and to be overwhelmed by US gestures
will be suicidal for India's interests in the medium and long term.
The need is to strengthen the global peace movement and to build a non
aligned movement which can take on the might of US, to strive for a
global democracy amongst nations of the World, by the revival and improvement
in the norms of United Nations as a potential World government, and
also to bring back the aspiration of the people of the World as enshrined
in the United Nations Charter of Human rights.