Scraps Stuffs - Random musings from apun ka desh

The recent diplomatic fracas over the denial of a diplomatic visa to Narendra Modi, the chief minister of Gujarat, to visit the USA has raised interesting questions and thoughts.

Modi has not been indicted by any court in India as yet. NHRC's findings/report aren't the end of the story and India's biased anti-BJP media has made things murkier by their biased and selective reporting of facts.

Although the US is well within its rights to deny a visa to anyone, the fact that a diplomatic visa was denied to a constitutionally elected Indian, means that they are trying to fish in the troubled waters of Indian politics. Since the US styles itself as a globocop, it needs to poke its fingers in all the pies of the world. They constantly keep looking for various pressure points in all countries, pressure points that they can use whenever needed to get their way on things. The other thing is that the US has granted visas to many thugs, dictators and despots when it suited its purpose. Denying a visa to Modi makes me feel that it may be a tactic to curry favour with Indian muslims and try and get their support for their misadventures in Iraq.

Condolezza Rice is the head honcho at State and the final decision would have been hers. She was making nice when she was in India and the moment she stepped out of here, the whole thing erupts. The sooner people in India realize that the US will be all sweetness and light when it suits them and nasty when it doesn't, the better for us. The US looks after its own interests first and always. Sundry bastard Indian lefties, weeping heart pseudo secular liberals and assorted loonies like Dilip D'Souza and Praful Bidwai look after others interest before their own country's. Shame on those chootias.

The reaction of the Tabloid of India and the Uneconomic Times was patently cowardly. Rather than standing up against interference in India's internal affairs, those bastards justified US actions! Hello, why don't you migrate to "the land of the free" instead of staying in India? Although from the same stables, I didn't expect the Uneconomic Times to take a line justifying US actions. This line can be expected from the Times of Islamabad but I thought that "cold-blooded capitalists" would know better!

By presenting a half-hearted united front slamming US actions, the Congress and the leftists (now thats a motley crew if there ever was one :-)) somewhat mitigated the lack of unity on issues of national importance. But India's image of a soft state was reinforced by the fact that even a request for a review by no less a figure than the PM failed to reverse the decision. Manmohan Singh cut a very sorry figure and no amount of spin can cover up this fact.