Tiger dead, a secret spills (Indian military aid to Sri Lanka)

The Telegraph-India ^ | May 18,2009 | SUJAN DUTTA

[blam]

The Indians are also capable of securing the Nukes in Pakistan when that becomes necessary.

[Tailgunner Joe]

Bravo! Finally India is reversing some of their foolish foreign policies which played into China’s hands. I can only hope that India will keep going in this direction after the jettison of the communists from the national government.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

There is an article about REd Chinese aid to the Sri Lankan govt which helped to win the battle against the Tamils (down a page or two at Freerepublic.)

Find it, read it, and contrast it to this article. Will show you how another Cold War is being waged in Asia Minor.

[Tailgunner Joe]

The best way for India to combat Chinese influence in Sri Lanka is by reinforcing Indian influence there by supporting Sri Lanka. India's past hostility to Sri Lanka only pushed them into China's arms. The Tamil Tigers were cooperating with jihadist and maoist terrorists who are waging war on India itself.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

IMHO India should perhaps be making friendly gestures to Cambodia.

[Tailgunner Joe]

India should ally with Thailand and Singapore to keep China from dominating the Straits of Malacca. India needs to cut off China from its “string of pearls.”

[Cronos]

Bravo! Finally India is reversing some of their foolish foreign policies which played into China’s hands. I can only hope that India will keep going in this direction after the jettison of the communists from the national government.

Not completely foolish. They couldn't directly support the Sri Lankan government as the LTTE portrayed themselves as the saviors of the Tamil people (though they weren't) and if the Ind govt was seen to be against Tamils, then fire would have erupted in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. India also could not support the LTTE or the Tamils as that would play up it's own regional tensions

The other places where it has to worry are Nepal, Bangladesh and Burma which are within the Indian sphere of influence.

In Nepal, it had clearly botched up, but now with the Maoists being quietly shown the door by the army, India is learning to be pragmatic. Ditto for Burma and India co-operating with the junta (not very nice playing with these guys, but the alternative was that China would be setting up camp in Burma otherwise).

[Cronos]

The Indians are also capable of securing the Nukes in Pakistan when that becomes necessary.

I doubt that. Willing, they are, yes. But capable? I don't think they have that kind of SAS capability -- a blunt force attack directly into Pak would work, but not a surgical strike.

[Cronos]

Will show you how another Cold War is being waged in Asia Minor.

Asia Minor is Turkey. This is South-Asia or the Indian continent.

[Cronos]

IMHO India should perhaps be making friendly gestures to Cambodia.

india SHOULD -- but those will be of civilisational importance, not strategic. Cambodia's army isn't the strongest in the world. However Cambodia's civilisation IS Indic -- they were Hindus with Hindu priests from India, then became Buddhists after Buddhism travelled from India again.

TJ is right that India should overtly ally itself with Thailand, Singapore, Taiwan, Australia and Japan -- and now Sri lanka -- an alliance of democracies in the Indian Ocean. Probably also toss in Kenya, Tanzania and South Africa.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

Will show you how another Cold War is being waged in Asia Minor

Asia Minor is the Asian part of Turkey, this article concerns South Asia.

[sukhoi-30mki]

You would need the special forces of all NATO members including the US and probably the Russians too to overwhelm Pakistani facilities.

[bondjamesbond]

India finally stops playing footsie with the Tamil Tigers and the Tigers collapse and are defeated. Who’d a thunk it?

[MimirsWell]

If India needs to choose with Vietnam and Thailand on one side and Cambodia on the other, I think India is better of siding with the former. India is more aligned with these countries in their perception of China than is Cambodia. Cambodia is a backwater for the Chinese.

the Angkor Wat is not enough reason to perceive a country as Indic. Thailand and Vietnam have Hindu temples too.

And being pragmatic is about choosing smaller communists against larger ones.

[cmdjing]

Typical Indian bakwas. Sri Lankan Army defeats the LTTE; India declares victory.

I love that the delusional Indians can spin sending a medical mission after hostilities are over as a sign of how much aid they provided Sri Lanka. Or how “military assistance” comes in the form of not actively abetting the terrorists to begin with. Only an Indian would clap themselves on the back for securing the border after having let the LTTE use Tamil Nadu as a safe haven for nearly three decades.

[MimirsWell]

Typical of Chinese sha bi’s to come and claim they are helping all these littoral Indian ocean countries with “good intentions”. Yay jump with joy! The truth though is the day you dock a naval ship in Sri Lanka and thats the day Sri Lanka will disappear from the map as a soveriegn country - and NO, it will not go Red like you muttering rat-eating Chicom vermin with running noses.

[MimirsWell]

And so much for claims of abetting terrorists. This speech needs to be administered to your paymasters in ZhongNanHai who themselves lead the largest terrorist group in the world - the CCP.

Hu? Yeah you, you dyed-hair, wig wearing tyrant!
Wen? Right now, go **** a cow!

[MimirsWell]

Drooling rabid Chicom running dogs abound on FR. This one refuses to die. Heel doggie heel! Uh Oh, no won’t heel? Cyanide shots are in order.:-)