Most countries on the planet learn from their mistakes. Some nations use past experiences to improve themselves and build bridges of harmony with their neighbors. A few countries in the world consistent align themselves with the wrong forces thus ending up on the wrong side of history.
After a hundred year war with France, and then opposing the European Economic Union with its own Outer Eight, London finally joined the EU.
- Why the US gave up India as a strategic partner
- India’s worst nightmares come true: Long term strategic malaise
The US went from frigid isolationism to aggressive imperialism to consensus based nation building. After undertaking unilateral action against Afghanistan (with the coalition of the willing) America has learned its lesson –that no peace is possible in Kabul without the agreement of all its immediate neighbors which physically touch Afghanistan boundaries. Today the entire world believes that peace in Afghanistan can happen by talking to the Talibs and bringing in Pakistan into the process.
US tells Delhi to back off Pakistan and lay low in Afghanistan. All countries are working on peace in Kabul–except one. Bharat has consistently managed to aggravate each and every one its neighbors, Nepal, Lanka, China, Maldives, Sikkim, Bhutan and Pakistan. Even Bangladesh is extremely angry with Delhi ton immigration, on the Border Security force, and for Bharat’s illegal support for the terrorist among the Chittagong Hill Tracks.
A seminal article that describes the pickle Bharat finds itself in.
http://atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/LC12Df03.html
Here is an excerpt from that article.
If Delhi failed to anticipate this shift in Karzai’s order of priorities, it has only itself to blame. Thus, even in the face of impending realignments in the Afghan political and military situation that were obvious to most perceptive foreign observers, Delhi kept up the presence of a few thousands Indians in Afghanistan whose security becomes now almost entirely its responsibility to shoulder.
- Indian ‘Aid’ to Kabul: 1 billion diabolical schemes to split Afghanistan
- Dilemma of the Indian Armed Forces
- History didn’t begin on 911: Leaving Afghanistan to Afghans
The malaise of the Bharati foreign policy in Afghanistan and beyond is defined below.
In retrospect, Delhi’s hare-brained idea of a US-led “quadripartite alliance” against China, the “Tibet card”, the dilution of a 2003 strategic understanding with Iran, neglect of the traditional friendship with Russia, the lukewarm attitude toward the SCO, exaggerated notions within the establishment regarding the US-India strategic partnership as an alternative to an independent foreign policy and diversified external relationships – all these appear now like dreadful pantomimes out of India’s foreign policy chronicle of recent years that Delhi would rather not think about.Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
Discussing the 123 Nuclear deal, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton once said that Bharat and Pakistan have a different histories. That is very correct. For the past five decades, Pakistan was a US ally, a founding member of SEATO and CENTO, while Delhi was a very close ally of the USSR. That’s why the history is different.
Bharat has consistently aligned itself on the wrong side of history. It opposed SEATO and CENTO. it opposed the US on almost everything, voting against US 95% of the time in the US. It tried to ally itself with one of the most brutal dictators of our time Marshall Tito. It befriended Saddam Husein. It opposed the recognition of China, it opposes the one China policy. It supported the USSR invasion of Afghanistan. FM Jiechi reaffirms China’s support to Pakistan on Kashmir dispute.
Since 2001, instead of playing a positive role in Afghanistan, Delhi used the opportunity to ingratiate itself with the worst druglords on the planet. It opposed the majority of the Pakhtuns and aligned itself with a very small minority of the Afghans. Its biggest blunder was supporting Abdullah Abdullah and opposing Hamid Karzai. Karzai sings a new tune: ‘Pakistan is twin brother’. Mr. Karzai has now totally and unconditionally aligned himself with Pakistan–supported by Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Iran, China, the US and the UK. Accepting Pakistan as a Nuclear state?
- Crescent and Star over Mountain Couldron
- ‘Your country is located on the other side of the world so what are you doing here?’ Ahmadinejad
- Pakistan asks for $45 billion in war reparations from EU
Bharat thumps its chest every opportunity it gets about spending $1 billion in aid to Afghanistan. A false claim. Bharat did give several hundred million Dollars to its own firms to build some things in Afghanistan. The Indian firms used the Indian money to make themselves rich. They in turn did spend some money in Afghanistan. The project where the money was spent was not based on Afghan needs–the projects were based on the needs of Delhi. All the projects undertaken were not undertaken to assist Afghans or to help them.Bharati projects in Afghanistan were to allow it a land access to Kabul and beyond. Insidious Indian propoaganda against Pakistan
Pakistani support to the Afghans was based on kinship, brotherhood and assistance for the Afghans where Kabul needed it. Pakistan directly spent about $500 million on Afghan projects. However the biggest help is in another form. More than 3 million Afghans are still hosted in Pakistan without any international assistance. HUndreds of thousands live near Quetta, and hundreds of thousands have melted away into Pakistani society. Pakistan does not thump its chest about this. Pakistanis think of this as their duty.
- Current US Administration accepts Pakistan as Nuclear state
- Salma Dam part of India’s water wars against Iran, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal
Today Bharat’s thumping its chest is being berated and ridiculed all over Afghanistan. The roads are already unusable and other projects lie in disrepair. Today Bharat faces an eviction from Afghanistan. To stay in Kabul, it will have to defy 62 countries and the combined Loya jirga between Pakistan and Afghanistan. It is obvious that Bharat will not willingly melt away in Afghanistan. Indian sabotage of Pakistan continues. For the first time in history it has used Afghan soil against Pakistan. The rise of Fascism in Bharat has largely been ignored by the West. America and Europe ignores the rise of parties like the RSS, Bajrang Dal, VHP and the BJP at its own peril. The chickens have come home to roost. Today Bharat faces imminent eviction from Afghanistan.
