There’s a difference between imposing democracy and supporting a junta that has and will abuse its populace.

Even if you think India writ large is not responsible, then what values do individual Indian citizens, quick to claim the title of “world’s largest democracy”, stand for?

India is not a permanent member of UN security council, it lost the election of its nominee for UN general secretary’s post, not a member of G-8, not a member of IMF’s elite panel(India lost its election here), it is still struggling to get a fair deal to its farmers in WTO fighting USA and EU against their brutal farm subsidies, its not a member of OPEC, its not a member of OIC(Organization of Islamic countries).India has every right to try to gain influence in its self interests. India requires energy from Myanmar, India has its interests with them in the fight against north-east terrorists and countering Chain’s vested interests in this country. Why and on what basis India should show this unnecessary responsibility towards ‘Myanmar’ at the cost of its own self interests.

India is not a permanent member of UN security council, it lost the election of its nominee for UN general secretary’s post, not a member of G-8, not a member of IMF’s elite panel(India lost its election here), it is still struggling to get a fair deal to its farmers in WTO fighting USA and EU against their brutal farm subsidies, its not a member of OPEC, its not a member of OIC(Organization of Islamic countries).India has every right to try to gain influence in its self interests. India requires energy from Myanmar, India has its interests with them in the fight against north-east terrorists and countering Chain’s vested interests in this country. Why and on what basis India should show this unnecessary responsibility towards ‘Myanmar’ at the cost of its own self interests.

The articles spell out the issues fairly well. Let’s look at it this way — given the SPDC’s track record and China’s overwhelming advantage already in Burma, increasing military cooperation is an odd way of improving relations. Why not spend real money developing real roads and infrastructure to increase trade with Burma rather than simple lip-service and habitually closed border posts?

Rajesh — I don’t know how I can make my questions to you any clearer. Thanks for your nationalism and overbroad generalizations, though.

Tell me that the Ayatollahs and Mullahs are beter for us or for Iran. The prime supporter of terror since 1979 has been Iran.

I support how the Indian forces operate against terrorists on its frontiers, whether it be Kashmir, or Assam.

I know well my history of the world. It does not subscribe to the re-written leftist version presently taught in most American colleges.