The Daily Observer

The previous post talks about the opposition to the India-US nuclear deal in US.While I can Understand such opposition (though not agree with it), I cannot understand the reasoning behind the policies of the left wingers in India. First of all they come out and oppose India’s vote against Iran in the IAEA council. Their only reason to defend Iran is because US is opposing the Iran plan to acquire nuclear capabilities. Never mind that such a technology in the hands of a lunatic goverment that is running that country is harmful for the world. The extreme nature of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s recent remarks don’tt make these "great left leaders" think for a minute about the merits of their pro-Iran ploicies. They dont have an alternative plan  to combat the energy problem of the power starved Indian economy but that won’t stop them from opposing the clean solution to generate cheap and abundant power with help from United States.

One of the arguments offerred by the left is that India is giving up control on these civilian nuclear facilities. They are talking about bringing the civilian nuclear facilities under IAEA safe gaurds and supervision. Frankly, I will be a bit nervous if we don’t place these facilities under such safe guards.

These leftists seem to be clinging on to petty issues and try to blow them out of proportion to gain some media attention. The recent Buddha-Mulford controversy is a good example for this. Buddhadeb, the chief minister of predominantly leftist state of West Bengal, described George Bush as " leader of organised pack of killers" and David Mulford, the US ambassador to India wrote a letter to this guy reacting to those comments. First of all let me clarify that I dont agree with Buddha’s comments. The US ambassador has every right to defend his president’s reputation. Imagine if a US politician makes such a comment about the Indian prime minister, I would expect the Indian mission to react the similar way. Although, I am not a great fan of David Mulford, I don’t see that he has done any grave mistake in reacting to Buddhadeb’s comments.

I don’t want to get started on the economic policies of these great "visionaries". That is a topic for another day to talk about. I am just glad that they didn’t seem have have a big influence on 2006 Indian Budget .                            -chow