Tuesday, January 31, 2006
The another face of Dr. Mulford
Dr. David C. MulfordThe controversial U.S ambassador to India Dr. Mulford is basically an economist not a politician as one presumes to be. I had an opportunity to listen Dr. Mulford when he visited Indian Institute of Technology Madras on September 01, 2005 for an interactive session with students. I have already written a story on this on September 2, 2005 in this blog.
Honestly speaking I expected something new from him but unfortunately he reproduced what he did at Kolkatta and Agra the same year. From the very beginning he has underscored the importance of India in global scene and mentioned the slip-tong of Ms. Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of state that her government will HELP India to become Superpower! He is rightly said that the US government is against India-Iran gas pipeline project as it is not going to be commercially viable. Why he unnecessarily cares for India? One must think.
The US as before is against the energy security of India. It tries very hard to make India to depend on them so that they can rule most of planet earth. There is nothi
ng new about his recent controversial remarks about the voting in IAEA meeting. As a US commercial agent it is right for him to set conditions for another firm to accept their pricing since theirs is the only one superpower in the world. When the monopoly ends there would be a level playing filed for all other nations. Unnecessarily he tries to undermine the sovereign rights of an independent country like India. It is for them to have nuclear cooperation with India to safeguard their interests. After all their interests will be protected since it persuaded India to separate the Civil-Military nuclear facilities for their betterment.
Honestly speaking I expected something new from him but unfortunately he reproduced what he did at Kolkatta and Agra the same year. From the very beginning he has underscored the importance of India in global scene and mentioned the slip-tong of Ms. Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of state that her government will HELP India to become Superpower! He is rightly said that the US government is against India-Iran gas pipeline project as it is not going to be commercially viable. Why he unnecessarily cares for India? One must think.
The US as before is against the energy security of India. It tries very hard to make India to depend on them so that they can rule most of planet earth. There is nothi
ng new about his recent controversial remarks about the voting in IAEA meeting. As a US commercial agent it is right for him to set conditions for another firm to accept their pricing since theirs is the only one superpower in the world. When the monopoly ends there would be a level playing filed for all other nations. Unnecessarily he tries to undermine the sovereign rights of an independent country like India. It is for them to have nuclear cooperation with India to safeguard their interests. After all their interests will be protected since it persuaded India to separate the Civil-Military nuclear facilities for their betterment. His efforts to blackmail India is as similar to what Junior Bush thundered world on eve of military strike against Iraq, either be with us or against. By linking IAEA vote to US-India nuclear cooperation is nothing new but another milestone of blackmailing. His interference in India’s foreign affairs is brought to light and all the political parties took exception to his unbecoming attitude. The demand to recall Dr, Mulford is growing from the opposition parties. In my sense, he is acting like a US commercial agent to safeguard, protect American industries and interests here.
In the large interests of both countries Bush administration should find replacement for Dr. Mulford else all good measures initiated by Clinton administration would fail.
Cartoon courtesy :Uttam Ghosh of Rediff
