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Nixon Unmasked
As I was reading a news item relating to the Nixon Administration’s plea to China to “menace” India during the 1971 India-Pakistan war, I remembered an an incident wherein a senior Superintendent of Police in Mysore was instructing his deputies to “ harass”those truck drivers who had scant respect for traffic regulations and drove the vehicles recklessly resulting in a number of fatal road accidents.
What has the then American President’s plea to do with Police Superintendent’s instructions ? You may ask. Well, both Nixon Administration and SP perceived the targets of those to be harassed are those who did not fall in line with the dictates of the day. While the SP stood on well established legal and moral grounds, having had the best of interests of those who got knocked down by careless truck drivers, Nixon Administration’s concern was more of negative and vindictive in nature in as much as US wanted to teach a lesson to Mrs Indira Gandhi for not falling in line with US, vis a vis India’s foreign policy.
The report based on well known American Author and Historian Robert Dallek ‘s just published book “ Nixon and Kissinger Partners in Power’ throws much light on the deep-seated hatred Nixon had developed towards Indians whom he described as ‘slippery, treacherous people “, while his National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger described them as “insufferably arrogant”
In the backdrop of cold war Nixon was keen to ensure rapprochement with China , buoy up Yahoo, so that Pakistan served as gate way to China and in the process could diplomatically strike at both Moscow and New Delhi. His thinking was based on fallacious and atrocious premises that if India attacked East Pakistan(a conflict which resulted in the formation of Bangladesh), China might intervene on Pak’s behalf, which would move Moscow to “teach Peking a lesson”.The book quotes Nixon saying that Indians were eager for a conflict that would allow to overwhelm Pak and take on China .”Everything we have done will then go down the drains.”
The well researched book based on thousands of pages of national security files and telephone transcripts of Kissinger and 2800 hours of Nixon tapes the anger and frustration that seized Nixon and his intentions to prevail on China to “ menace” India by moving troops to the Indian border.
Nixon Unmasked
As I was reading a news item relating to the Nixon Administration’s plea to China to “menace” India during the 1971 India-Pakistan war, I remembered an an incident wherein a senior Superintendent of Police in Mysore was instructing his deputies to “ harass”those truck drivers who had scant respect for traffic regulations and drove the vehicles recklessly resulting in a number of fatal road accidents.
What has the then American President’s plea to do with Police Superintendent’s instructions ? You may ask. Well, both Nixon Administration and SP perceived the targets of those to be harassed are those who did not fall in line with the dictates of the day. While the SP stood on well established legal and moral grounds, having had the best of interests of those who got knocked down by careless truck drivers, Nixon Administration’s concern was more of negative and vindictive in nature in as much as US wanted to teach a lesson to Mrs Indira Gandhi for not falling in line with US, vis a vis India’s foreign policy.
The report based on well known American Author and Historian Robert Dallek ‘s just published book “ Nixon and Kissinger Partners in Power’ throws much light on the deep-seated hatred Nixon had developed towards Indians whom he described as ‘slippery, treacherous people “, while his National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger described them as “insufferably arrogant”
In the backdrop of cold war Nixon was keen to ensure rapprochement with China , buoy up Yahoo, so that Pakistan served as gate way to China and in the process could diplomatically strike at both Moscow and New Delhi. His thinking was based on fallacious and atrocious premises that if India attacked East Pakistan(a conflict which resulted in the formation of Bangladesh), China might intervene on Pak’s behalf, which would move Moscow to “teach Peking a lesson”.The book quotes Nixon saying that Indians were eager for a conflict that would allow to overwhelm Pak and take on China .”Everything we have done will then go down the drains.”
The well researched book based on thousands of pages of national security files and telephone transcripts of Kissinger and 2800 hours of Nixon tapes the anger and frustration that seized Nixon and his intentions to prevail on China to “ menace” India by moving troops to the Indian border.
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