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| ‘Obama's approach to India ruining |
| ‘Obama's approach to India ruining close Bush-era ties’
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 13-May-2010
6:6:47 AM |
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US administration's approach to India, including its "slow" response to the request for questioning David Headley, and its proximity to Pakistan in the war on terror are steadily driving a wedge in the strong relations cultivated during the Bush-era, noted historian Arthur Herman has observed.
In an opinion piece in the New York Post, widely regarded as a conservative publication, Herman wrote that India is still waiting to question LeT operative Headley, months after it emerged that he had a role in the Mumbai terror attack.
The author and historian also described the "cozy relationship" shared by the US and Pakistan as the second area of a rift in Indo-US relations.
"The partnership with India that George W Bush carefully built is in shambles -- jeopardising our future in Asia," the piece said.
"What the Pentagon and the media trumpet as Pakistan's new 'cooperation' in fighting the Taliban, Indian experts see as simply one jihadist wing of Pakistan's secret service (the ISI) surreptitiously taking out the others, with our Predator drones doing the shooting," it added.
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Herman is the author the bestseller How the Scots Invented the Modern World, and his most recent book is Gandhi and Churchill: The Epic Rivalry that Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age.
The author warned that the US should not make the "mistake of scorning India" like it did during the Cold War.
"Repeating that mistake will now hurt us and our ability to make our voice heard in that vital hemisphere," he said,
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