By: Rajiv Singh
singh.ufo@gte.net
June 21, 2003

Comment on Letter to the PM on deploying of Troops in Iraq

Once again you are not able to look at the big global geopolitical picture. Right now it is the turn of Afghanistan and Iraq to be stablized and Iran and N. Korea to be cleaned up, along with Burma and Westbank and Gaza. We are also limiting the insurgency of Islamic Militants & Maoists, while weeding out the militants and NGOs already involved in such activities in India.

Pakistan and China are the last in the series of this cleanup. It is going to be a long campaign. One or two soldiers killed is nothing. This is the Indian opportunity to fully integrate with US defense forces, and they will after giving it the due democratic consideration of talking with opposition parties, Nepal, Iran, Saudis, etc. That is all a drama anyway, as Indian forces are fully integrated with US forces. FYI, India has an agreement with US, that its forces can use any US base anywhere in the world and get equipment and fuel without any payment (to be settled later).

This is also compounded with naval, mountain, jungle, paracommando joint excercises. Let us see how much can be done slowly. Right now Musharraf is cleaning up the terrorists a little bit, and cleaning the opium / heroin supply a little bit too...it is time to let him do it and be stable, as atleast the nukes are not in the hands of terrorists. Down th eline let us see how Burma and Chinese Army operating through there will unfold. They have been trying to do a u-turn and have arrested ASSK again, and more maoists are coming to Nepal. It is not as simple as it seems - PM is a very busy person, we do not need to do an email campaign to harass or overload his staff...those Generals RAW, MIS, IB, STF in Delhi are very wise and brilliant people....let them do their job.

Rajiv Singh