A few things.
A FOX News National Security Correspondent was shell shocked today saying how is it that all the US supported/friendly Arab regimes are collapsing? The ones standing are the regimes opposed by US.
I think there is something to Gwen Dyer's thesis that this collpase of Arab regimes is a fallout of the US quagmire in Iraq and the 2008 finanical meltdown.
To that I add its Obama as the US President. He is playing the same role that Gorbhchev played when the Warsaw pact regimes which were also dictatorships were collapsing. The forces underway are bigger than nations and individuals to control. One has to stept aside if one wants to survive the tide. Further he could not have intervened without imperial over reach.
Another as Acharya pointed out all these regimes are stalwarts of the Organization of Islamic Countries (OIC) which was setup after the 1965 war and most took anti-India stance in every instance and supported TSP. Yes there is sympathy for Mubarak regime due to Nasser's goodwill for India, but Mubarak was also bad for his people.
Libya in particular funded TSP nuke programs. So I see no sympathy for the regimes being swept away. Qaddafi in particular is a bad person. He was brutal dictator and terrorised his neighbors like Chad and funded Paki nukes. He now has killed his own people. No tears for this thug.
So all in all for India these changes are good eventually.
A FOX News National Security Correspondent was shell shocked today saying how is it that all the US supported/friendly Arab regimes are collapsing? The ones standing are the regimes opposed by US.
I think there is something to Gwen Dyer's thesis that this collpase of Arab regimes is a fallout of the US quagmire in Iraq and the 2008 finanical meltdown.
To that I add its Obama as the US President. He is playing the same role that Gorbhchev played when the Warsaw pact regimes which were also dictatorships were collapsing. The forces underway are bigger than nations and individuals to control. One has to stept aside if one wants to survive the tide. Further he could not have intervened without imperial over reach.
Another as Acharya pointed out all these regimes are stalwarts of the Organization of Islamic Countries (OIC) which was setup after the 1965 war and most took anti-India stance in every instance and supported TSP. Yes there is sympathy for Mubarak regime due to Nasser's goodwill for India, but Mubarak was also bad for his people.
Libya in particular funded TSP nuke programs. So I see no sympathy for the regimes being swept away. Qaddafi in particular is a bad person. He was brutal dictator and terrorised his neighbors like Chad and funded Paki nukes. He now has killed his own people. No tears for this thug.
So all in all for India these changes are good eventually.