In another case of bullying other countries to follow its agendas, US is shown to have harried India into putting a full stop on its relations with Iran. To put it simply, US doesn't understand that Asia is a complicated place to be and for India which is multi ethnic, its even more difficult. Ironical it may sound but the fact is that both Iran and Israel are very close to India and play a huge role. It's beyond question that US has ALWAYS acted on its own interests. The fundamental truth behind all the actions of US is What is there in it for me? In a way that is not bad. By all means, every country should adopt such a policy but following the policy blindly, poking nose into other countries' businesses is when it actually gets messy.
I think, Iran is more interested in making the life of its own people better. It has always seemed to me that it has bigger things to do than to make the life of Americans, Israelis and Iraqis a living hell. For that matter even Iraq was the same towards the later years. Iraq never had the know-how of producing nuclear weapons. Iran IMHO never wanted to use nuclear technology for producing weapons. But the damage was done by US. It was US which perpetrated false claims that Iran was developing weapons. To the point that it wanted to have an Iraq style military strike in Iran as well. I'm sure this led Iran's leadership to look at the possibility of developing nuclear weapons, but this time for its defence. And in this way, US has successfully created another monster. In the same way that it successfully created monsters in the form of Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Central to all this is the phrase "Average American" which US has used so many times to leverage its plans. Noam Chomsky in his book, Hegemony or Survival has commented on several of these issues. At one place he went on say that about 33% of the americans (who btw are all average) believed Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and 20% believed that Iraq actually used them against US. He goes on to say that the average American believed that a preemptive strike on Iraq was justified because equipment was discovered which COULD HAVE POTENTIALLY been used for developing weapons. Another use of the phrase "average american" was in a cable to India which read as follows -
"...The average American will wonder why the US has gone out of its way to have a nuclear cooperation initiative with India, when India is so friendly with Iran..."
Hidden beneath layers of sugarcoated political correctness, it doesn't take much to realize that the statement is utter hogwash and bs of the highest standards. An average American doesn't care what India is doing with Iran. If India comes up anywhere, it is in a discussion of how Indians are stealing their jobs. Frankly speaking, average Americans can't understand world politics. In the wake of a prolonged recession in their country, their thinking has only become more narrow. Obama who was genuinely interested in reforms faced a setback in mid-terms. Economic Analysts around the world agree that recession can only go away with temporary regulatory measures. Regulating the actions of banks. But GOP has gone out of its way to convince average Americans that it is the other way round. Average Americans are falling prey to these insensible remarks. I can only hope these average Americans wake up from the deep slumber and take stock of the situation which is in front of them.
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