Please tell me you're not citing Bangladesh as an example of anything but disaster on a grand scale. The establishment of that state was marked by one of the greatest humanitarian horrors since the Holocaust! To this day, the "democratic" government of Bangladesh can barely manage its affairs.
As to Nepal and Afghanistan, how does India deserve any credit for either of those? Government in Nepal is a hodgepodge of constitutional, parliamentary, and monarchical relics, owning much more to England than to India. And the Karzai government is a product of Allied power, with some minimal assistance from Delhi in subduing the Pakastani/Kashmir wilderness.
From Mohandas Gandhi on, the fate of Indian leaders is to die at the hand of some internal extremist. M. Gandhi, Indira, Rajiv ... all dead.
India has made tremendous strides from the days of the Raj's, but it has little to offer the United States. However, as terrified as we are of the Yellow Peril, we'll mortgage our future to the good lads in Hyderabad, who will gladly pocket our money and look for another "john."
India was not responsible for that holocaust,an American ally was.If anything India was responsible for putting an end to the slaughter.Bangladesh is nowhere near perfect,but it's still far more stable than other Slammies like Pakiland & Saudi Arabia.
Err who are the main indegnious backers of the current Afghan regime???Folks called the Northern Alliance, who were supported by Russia,India & Uzbekistan among others.None of the current "allied" powers were around at that time.Indian troops would almost certainly have been in Afghanistan hadn't Musharraf made it explicitly condtional that Israel & India stay out of drive to throw out the Talibs.Indian public & private enterprises are among the largest contributors to Afghanistan's reconstruction efforts -building roads,electricity lines,training police & diplomatic officers among many others.If Nepal is starting to move out of it's feudal morass, to that of democratic republic,it is because of Indian pressure.Rajiv Gandhi's sanctions against the Nepalese king in the late 80s hastened the elections for a new Parliament.
Other than those 3,which other leaders can you quote??As I said,only one of them was killed in office,with Gandhi living with virtually no security.Kennedy & King died a few years apart from each-while Reagan & Ford had very close shaves with bullets.Those weren't the Al-Qaeda,if Im not mistaken.
C'mon IronJack, you see the regional situation, don't you?.....give me a shout.........
Government in Nepal is a hodgepodge of constitutional, parliamentary, and monarchical relics, owning much more to England than to India.
You saying Nepal owes it all to those Pommies? LOL. Are you from John Kerry institute of Foreign Affairs? I bet in your book Western civilization owes it all to France eh? Were the Pommies fighting by any chance, in 1950 when China invaded Tibet or in 1962 when China invaded India?
From Mohandas Gandhi on, the fate of Indian leaders is to die at the hand of some internal extremist. M. Gandhi, Indira, Rajiv ... all dead.
So three is “half a dozen”? Don’t they teach you math at Kerry institute?