I haven’t commented on sending Indian troops to patrol Iraq. That’s because I was waiting for the government to make a decision so that I could criticise whichever decision it takes.
Seriously, I do agree that it wasn’t a good idea to send in the troops. The Indian army should be used to protect India’s security<\/i>. I’ve put the emphsis on “security” for good reason. I believe that seeking business contracts in Iraq is a valid goal for India, but sending in the army for that purpose is not a valid means to achieve it. <\/p>\n
The only good reason for co-operating with the US would have been if in return for some of our troops dying in Iraq, we’d have real reason to believe that fewer of our citizens would die in Kashmir. There is no reason to believe that the US would agree to any such deal and no reason to believe it even if it agreed. So on the whole we made the right decision. <\/p>\n
But I do hope<\/i> that we weren’t serious when we said that we’d send troops only under UN supervision. Whatever reasons are there against sending troops to help the US apply double when we send troops under the UN. Al Qaeda may still attack us and then there is zilch chance that the US will help us. The UN hasn’t been on our side on Kashmir and will never be. The UN is even more ineffective at peace-keeping than the US has been, so chances are more of our troops will get killed. <\/p>\n
So if you are opposed to sending troops now but won’t mind sending them under the UN flag, you have some explaining to do.<\/i> <\/p>\n
And why on earth are we sending troops to Ethiopia?<\/a> I mean, is it an iron-clad rule of foreign policy that we will only act<\/a> when<\/a> it is not<\/b> in our self-interest? I haven’t commented on sending Indian troops to patrol Iraq. That’s because I was waiting for the government to make a decision so that I could criticise whichever decision it takes. Seriously, I do agree that it wasn’t a good idea to send in the troops. The Indian army should be used to protect India’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2788"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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