Confused Man - Mohan Singh, NAM, Mush in Havanna

NAM, MMS-Mush and Havanna

Prime Minister Man Mohan singh's decision to skip the UN general assembly and participate in NAM summit that too in red havanna is a blunder of sorts. NAM has already become irrelevent. Our former external affairs minister Mr.Natwar might claim that as long as NATO is alive, NAM is relevent. But the truth is NAM is a chunk of anti americans shouting irrelevent slogans satisfying their fake ego. Unfortunately, we created this mess and we still claim it a success story.

In the 50 year long infamous history of NAM, I can't even think of a single achievement worth mentioning. Not even a single war thwarted, mediated, nor any dispute between member countries solved, not a single conflit avoided... So, what is it for ? Did it help any of the third world African nations or any of the South americans nor we south asians. The summit gave the world a chance to see a deteriorating Fidel Castro. Look at the bunch of crooks who participated in the summit, Raul - castro's brother, Musharraf, Ahmedinijad (Iran), Bashr-al- Azad (Syria), Hugo Chavez (venezuela) et all. And the result, anti american slogans all the way. That was all it fetched. And a much hyped handshake between our MMS and Mush.

This has given way for a joint anti terrorism aparatus. The initiative for this Indo-Pakistan anti-terrorism co-operation mechanism is ill-advised, ill-timed and ill-conceived. Its like a sheep asking the wolf to help in combating the loss of its kids at night. First of all, MMS should have told that he is skipping the NAM summit b'cos it would mean sharing the dais with Mush. We should have insulted and cornered pakistan. At a time when the west is realising that the pakis are playing a spoil sport, dual game in the name of "war against terror", we are handshaking and saying, lets patrol together.

Oh Mr.MMS, I once felt proud and happy for you becoming the PM. I thought Rajiv was the dumbest PM ever India had. Now, I have started believing that if Rajiv was the dumbest, then, you are the meakest India has ever seen. And your advisor Narayan... Oh, the less said the better. India feels the loss of Mani dixit when his services are required the most.

For God sake, Pakistan is a theocratic State founded on the belief that Hindus and Muslims cannot live together. We may call ourselves a secular state, but the Pakistanis look upon us as a Hindu State. If Manmohan Singh think that a State with such beliefs will genuinely co-operate with us against jihadi terrorism, then, he is living in a fools paradise. Someone, please tell him.

And look at Mush and Ahmedinijad, they went on to the UNGA. Ahmedinijad took it as an oppurtunity to proclaim that they are right, their nuclear option is atone to the right to exist and Mush told that India is the mischief and the problem creator in Kashmir. On the other hand our MMS lost his oppurtunity to roar back or even to gather support from other countries for his pet project civilian nuclear coop with Americans.

And I don't know why the G15 meeting was held in havanna, for cuba is not even a part of that group. Oh!!! A bunch of baffoons.

The only meaningful meeting that was held in this recent visit was the IBSA. The south-south corridor cooperation between India, Brazil and South Africa held in Brazilia.

Thank god the UPA didn't dump it thinking that it was the idea floated by Vajpayee.

On the whole, other than costing the ex-chequr a ton, PM's recent visit didn't fetch India anything meaningful.

- Murali