Just finished reading Engaging India by Strobe Talbott. After reading this book, I will never ever complain or crib that the United States always sides with Pakistan in this little street fight we call 'Indo-Pak Tensions'. Strobe categorically talks about how the pakistanis use every trick in the book to extract benefits from the US. He compares them to a New York mugger who instead of holding you up with a gun to your head, holds it up to his own and threatens to shoot himself if you don't dish out money. Yew...that should hurt the pakistani political ego.(Mind you, I am not anti anything, I am just anti political establishment that runs Pakistan. I have pakistani friends who are great guys). Very well written, shows how the american perspective of India has been changing over the past decade or so.
19 July 2005
Engaging India
Just finished reading Engaging India by Strobe Talbott. After reading this book, I will never ever complain or crib that the United States always sides with Pakistan in this little street fight we call 'Indo-Pak Tensions'. Strobe categorically talks about how the pakistanis use every trick in the book to extract benefits from the US. He compares them to a New York mugger who instead of holding you up with a gun to your head, holds it up to his own and threatens to shoot himself if you don't dish out money. Yew...that should hurt the pakistani political ego.(Mind you, I am not anti anything, I am just anti political establishment that runs Pakistan. I have pakistani friends who are great guys). Very well written, shows how the american perspective of India has been changing over the past decade or so.
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