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The media went on and on and on, saying Obama should have done much more, he should have nailed Pakistan.īut Obama’s not a judge. He met the victims, commiserated with them, talked eloquently about the courage and the resilience of Mumbai in the face of such a dastardly terrorist strike. He landed in Mumbai, stayed at The Taj, where the tragedy took place. He did not go to Delhi first, like others do. Short of blaming Pakistan for 26/11, the poor guy did everything right.
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No Head of State goes to a country and points fingers at another. Now we are already claiming, half way through the visit, that Obama has let India down by not naming Pakistan as a terrorist state. US diplomacy won, over the petulance of our petty leaders, when the Consulate head personally met them and politely apologised for a mistake which was not a mistake in the first place. Luckily, the MEA was wiser and clarified that this was no affront to India and the Consulate was well within its rights to impose its own security norms at their own function. Apologise for what? For ensuring security for their own Head of State, the world’s most targeted leader, at a function organised by them. Our leaders created such uproar that the Consulate had no option but to call it a clerical error and apologise. They asked for everyone’s security details. Their leaders get no such special treatment. Luckily, the Americans are not a hierarchical society. For the rest of us it’s a shame that we allow certain people (the list includes Robert Vadhera, who holds no official position) to violate a security protocol that could endanger all of us. Worse, just outside the check-in counter, there’s a long list of VIPs who can walk past security without being checked. We must be the only nation which allows our VIPs to walk through airport security without being checked because their ego is so fragile it might break if they have to go through a process mandatory for the rest of us. So our politicians and bureaucrats took huge umbrage and refused to go. What was this humiliation? They were invited to meet Obama at a gathering organised by the US Consulate and were requested in advance to provide their identification through PAN cards and whatever ID our own Government demands of us whenever we enter an airport or any other place where security’s an issue. Deals happen much quicker in such markets and we know exactly why.Įven before Obama came into town, our pompous local politicians, including the CM who’s currently living on borrowed time, having been caught stealing land belonging to the Kargil war widows, decide to show huge outrage over being humiliated by the US.
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They see us as a market because it’s easy to sell to a country where 90% of the wealth is concentrated in the hands of 10%. Sure, both see us as a market for their products, not because we have a huge middle class with lots of surplus money. They prefer to be hyphenated with the US. As for China, it’s bigger, tougher, richer, cleverer and far better economically placed than we are and I don’t think they like being hyphenated with us.
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Yes, Asia is today an economic powerhouse and a US-India detente could augur well for the free world. Even assuming this is true, it was perhaps not the apt time to crow about it. We started hyphenating ourselves with China and argued that Obama was coming to India to acknowledge the shift in power from the West to Asia. He is coming, declared our media, because we are the economy of tomorrow and America’s the economy of yesterday. Even before he arrived in India, and he’s the first American President to visit India in his first term, we began to boast about how the US needs India today more than India needs the US. What is it about us that makes us crib, crib, crib? Cribbing has become a national pastime, making us look insecure, selfish, petulant and pompous, all at the same time.