In the Nov/Dec Issue: What's Next for Obama, After the Crash, and More

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No world leader in living memory has inherited a set of circumstances like President-elect Barack Obama. Things seemed complicated even a year ago, when Obama first described how he would cope with the foreign policy challenges he would inherit if elected president in "Renewing American Leadership." Now, the deck is stacked with the worst financial crisis to emerge since the Great Depression.

The November/December 2008 issue of Foreign Affairs addresses some of the key trouble regions for the United States and proposes practical foreign policy strategies for the President-elect and his team of advisers. To read this issue � and get a full year of Foreign Affairs delivered to your home or office � subscribe today for the special low rate of only $24.95.
In "After the Crash," financial expert James Grant looks beyond the causes of the current economic meltdown and suggests solutions that will help bring relief to the economy and the millions suffering from its collapse. Subscribe now, and you�ll get an online sneak preview when we release our next issue�s special package on the far-reaching implications of the financial crisis.

The reaction to Obama�s election by Russian leaders President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has been a reminder of the tenuous relations between the two nations. Only a few months ago, deep-rooted tensions between Russia and Georgia erupted into full-scale war. In "The Five Day War," Charles King argues that the war has rekindled a superpower rivalry as it becomes clearer that Russia has again lost faith in multilateral institutions. Redefining the right balance between cooperating and pushing back is the key to U.S. Russia policy, argues Stephen Sestanovich, in "What Has Moscow Done?"

How should President-elect Obama approach the perennial hot spots of Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan? In "The Latter-Day Sultan," Iranian journalist and dissident Akbar Ganji cautions that there is too much attention on President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and not enough on Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei whose influence is likely to outlast Ahmadinejad's. And in "From Great Game to Grand Bargain," Barnett R. Rubin and Ahmed Rashid warn that broad U.S. diplomacy is doing little to temper the growing chaos in Afghanistan and Pakistan; instead, addressing regional rivalries and insecurities should be the focus.

For many, the phrase "genetically modified" is practically blasphemous, but to billions of the world's poorest, it could mean salvation. In "The Politics of Hunger," Paul Collier argues that genetically-modified food doesn't deserve the bad rap given to it by the romantics wooed by idealized notions of organics and peasant farming. Rather, he says, GM crops, which have been banned in Europe and parts of Africa, are the best � and most ethically responsible � way to stop food riots and feed the citizens of developing nations who are suffering from exponentially increasing food prices.

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Sep/Oct Issue: The Next President, Progress in Iraq, and More

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During this historic campaign season, Foreign Affairs invited John McCain and Barack Obama to outline their visions for U.S. foreign policy. Only history will tell how their plans and their promises play out. But in the September/October 2008 issue, several leading experts predict how the next president should handle the most pressing issues. To read these articles�and get one year of Foreign Affairs delivered to your home or office�subscribe now for the special low rate of only $27 for one year.

In our cover story, Richard Holbrooke says the opening-day challenges awaiting George W. Bush�s successor will make for a daunting agenda�one that will require both strength and a renewed sense of national purpose. Of issues ranging from Iraq and global warming to rising oil prices and world economy, Holbrooke says the next administration must correct the mistakes of the current one. And Holbrooke, a former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, believes that with the right strategy it will be possible for the United States to inspire and lead the world once again.

Also in this issue, Robert Kagan offers his advice for number 44�with a reminder that the origins of some of today�s most complicated global issues date back to long before Bush took office. Since the fall of the Soviet Union, the United States has seen the international balance of power shift and its relationships with both former enemies and former allies evolve. To Kagan, it is critical that the next U.S. administration recognize the United States� unique role in global politics and continue to build a liberal world order.

In two other lead essays, authors argue that the next administration has unique opportunities in China and Iraq to improve relations and better serve the national interest. U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson writes that China's rapid rise should be seen as an opportunity for the United States�and praises the Bush administration�s policy of engagement toward Beijing. As for Iraq, top analysts Stephen Biddle, Michael E. O�Hanlon, and Kenneth M. Pollack argue that recent military advancements there have made the proposed withdrawal of U.S. troops a real possibility.

The September/October issue also includes articles about how the United States is perceived in Asia, Latin America, and Europe. You�ll also find illuminating pieces by Shlomo Ben-Ami on the future of Israel and Christopher Hitchens on humanitarian intervention.

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Modi A Hero- Astounding Reception In Delhi

Gujarat C.M, Mr.Narendra Modi gets a heroic reception on his arrival at Delhi, after his astounding success in the Gujarat Elections, on Friday the 28th Dec. '07.

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Part-2 of Narendra Modi , at Hindustan Times LEADERSHIP SUMMIT.

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A 'BIJAYA DASAMI' Gift from US : BOBBY JINDAL

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Mr. BOBBY JINDAL, 36, becomes the youngest, first non-white Governor since the end of the US civil war of Louisiana and crowned so as the Frst Indian American governor as well, thus adding three feathers to his CROWN.

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Jindal Wins Louisiana Race, Becomes First Indian American Governor

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MIAMI, Oct. 20 -- Rep. Bobby Jindal (R) became the nation's first Indian American governor Saturday, outpolling 11 rivals in Louisiana and drawing enough votes to avoid a runoff election next month.

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Sharply Divided House Passes US Troops' Early Home-Coming

April,1,2008 or October,1,2007, the date for 'withdrawal of troops from Iraq' issue, should be weighed mainly by "The Message that is echoed" to the world at large.

That the House is marginally divided by 218-208,speaks all in silence.

Be it what may,what matters is "Peace in Iraq" and none but the 'warring factions', the peace-aspirants and the Govt. there, with a strong 'will, compassion and tolerance', can and only can make all the difference.

Read this Seattle Times absorbing article by ANNE FLAHERTY.

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WASHINGTON -- A sharply divided House brushed aside a veto threat Wednesday and passed legislation that would order President Bush to begin withdrawing troops from Iraq by Oct. 1.

The 218-208 vote came as the top U.S. commander in Iraq told lawmakers the country remained gripped by violence but was showing some signs of improvement.

Passage puts the bill on track to clear Congress by week's end and arrive on the president's desk in coming days as the first binding congressional challenge to Bush's handling of the conflict now in its fifth year.

"Our troops are mired in a civil war with no clear enemy and no clear strategy for success," said House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer.

Republicans promised to stand squarely behind the president in rejecting what they called a "surrender date" handed to the enemy.

"Al-Qaida will view this as the day the House of Representatives threw in the towel," said Rep. Jerry Lewis of California, ranking Republican on the House Appropriations Committee.

The $124.2 billion bill would fund the war, among other things, but demand troop withdrawals begin on Oct. 1 or sooner if the Iraqi government does not meet certain standards. The bill sets a nonbinding goal of completing the troop pull out by April 1, 2008, allowing for forces conducting certain noncombat missions, such as attacking terrorist networks or training Iraqi forces, to remain.

House and Senate appropriators agreed to the legislation earlier this week. The Senate was expected to clear the measure Thursday, sending it to the president.

While Bush was confident the bill would ultimately fail because Democrats lacked the two-thirds majority needed to override a veto, he kept up pressure on lawmakers. On the same day as the House vote, the president dispatched his Iraq commander, Gen. David Petraeus, and other senior defense officials to Capitol Hill to make his case: Additional forces recently sent to Iraq are yielding mixed results and the strategy needs more time to work.

Petraeus told reporters sectarian killings in Baghdad were only a third of what they were in January, before Bush began sending in additional U.S. forces. He added that progress in the troubled western Anbar province was "breathtaking," and that he thought Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki was "doing his best" at leading the country.

But "the ability of al-Qaida to conduct horrific, sensational attacks obviously has represented a setback and is an area in which we're focusing considerable attention," Petraeus said.

Petraeus said he would not touch on the "minefield of discussions about various legislative proposals," but he noted that the new strategy in Iraq was just beginning. He said he planned to provide more details in early September.

Petraeus briefed his findings to lawmakers in a private room, where protesters outside chanted "Troops home now!" Republicans and Democrats alike emerged to say Petraeus had only confirmed their positions.

"This briefing reinforced our view that the solution in Iraq is a political solution," Hoyer, D-Md., told reporters. Also confirmed, he said, was "our belief that we must hold the Iraqis accountable for achieving real progress."

Rep. John Boehner of Ohio, the House Republican leader, said Petraeus acknowledged there were challenges. "But considering where we are, I think the general feels good about the progress thus far," Boehner said.

Bush said he stands firm on his latest strategy for winning the war and dismisses as counterproductive the Democratic call for withdrawal.

"That means our commanders in the middle of a combat zone would have to take fighting directions from legislators 6,000 miles away on Capitol Hill," Bush said this week. "The result would be a marked advantage for our enemies and a greater danger for our troops."

Petraeus' comments Wednesday put a finer point on when the much-awaited decision about the length of the U.S. troop buildup may come, saying he will make an assessment of the conditions in Iraq in early September, and report back to Defense Secretary Robert Gates and other military leaders.

Gates has said he expects the assessment this summer, but this is the first time military leaders said it would not be until September.

Speculations Over 2008 US Election

With the Senate poised for a showdown on Iraq today, Republicans along the campaign trail and on Capitol Hill appear trapped between their loyalty to President Bush and growing fears about the war's impact on the party's political fortunes.
As Democrats have vigorously and sometimes angrily debated the war among themselves, Republicans have marched in near lock step behind Bush. GOP officials acknowledge that the paucity of dissent, in the face of deep public discontent, could jeopardize their chances of holding the White House and regaining majorities in the House and Senate in 2008.
The party's quandary comes as the Senate prepares to begin debate today on a Democratic resolution that calls for withdrawing U.S. forces by March 31, 2008, something Democratic leaders describe as a goal, not a firm deadline. Whatever peril the resolution carries for Democrats, the debate will provide a public test of Republican unity.
The lack of debate inside the Republican Party reflects not just loyalty to the president but also a belief that Bush's policies still offer a chance for success in Iraq, GOP officials said.But that has done little to calm growing fears that Republicans will be punished politically unless there is a dramatic improvement in the course of the war and Americans' perceptions about it.
"I don't think there is a lot of Republican anxiety that we're doing the wrong thing and it's hurting us," said Vin Weber, a Republican former congressman from Minnesota. "There's a lot of feeling that we're doing the right thing and it's killing us."
War support among the party's elected officials and presidential candidates reflects the attitudes of rank-and-file Republican voters. "It doesn't take a pollster to look at data among Republican primary voters to see that President Bush is still popular and his Iraq strategy is popular", said a GOP pollster,Neil Newhouse.
.........."There is no question that there's a general-election risk," he said. "This is one of these issues where the position a Republican candidate takes in the primary may be detrimental to that candidate's health in the general election."
The decision to proceed with debate in the Senate was a significant shift by GOP leaders. Last month, Republicans used parliamentary tactics to block the Senate from debating a nonbinding resolution opposing Bush's plan to send more troops. This time, Democrats are back with a different measure: binding language that would restrict military actions in Iraq. But Republicans have decided to let that debate proceed -- at least for now.
"Changing times call for changing tactics," said Senate Minority Whip Trent Lott (R-Miss.). "We're adjusting to the circumstances that we're confronted with."
For many Republicans, the stalemate is deeply frustrating, signaling that the party places loyalty to Bush ahead of addressing what has become voters' paramount concern.
"It hurts both sides, the fact that the debate hasn't occurred," said Sen. Olympia J. Snowe (Maine), a moderate Republican. But, she added, "the disproportionate burden is borne by Republicans because we have a Republican president.".......................
"It's unfortunate that we haven't had an opportunity to vote for all the different alternatives that are out there", said Sen. John E. Sununu of New Hampshire, whose state is strongly antiwar, has already drawn several Democratic opponents for his 2008 reelection campaign.
Republicans say a moment of reckoning may come later this year, when there will be more evidence of whether the president's troop-increase policy is reducing sectarian violence and leading to political accommodation among Iraqi factions........
Even some of Bush's Republican critics questioned the timing of the Senate action. They want to give Bush's new plan a chance to work. "Let's just watch it for a while, and let's see," said Sen. Sam Brownback (Kan.), who is seeking the 2008 GOP presidential nomination and opposed the plan when Bush announced it.
Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) said: "We have a window of opportunity through the end of this year." But at that point, he added, "we've got to have some progress or you're going to start seeing more and more people saying we've got to try something new."
Sen. John McCain (Ariz.), former New York mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani and former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney, currently seen as the leading candidates for the Republican nomination, all support the troop increase, which has helped to dampen debate about the plan on the campaign trail.
Sen. Chuck Hagel (Neb.) might have sparked more discussion about the wisdom of Bush's policies had he entered the GOP race on Monday, but his decision to announce that he had nothing to announce, at least for now, leaves the candidates mostly in unity behind Bush's current policy.
"I think there's a belief that this is bigger than trying to figure out the consequences for the primary or the general [election] and trying to nuance your position," said Mike DuHaime, Giuliani's campaign manager. "There's a belief we need to do the right thing and let the consequences be what they may."
...........A strategist for one GOP presidential campaign said unity among Republicans over the war is to be expected, given the attitudes toward terrorism and national security. But he added that there is a "chasm" between the views of rank-and-file Republicans and of the independents and moderate Democrats whose votes may be needed in 2008.
"It's like two different worlds," he said. "One is the family and the other is the general election, and Republicans are like, 'We'll deal with this later.' "
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As Jewish State Honour "Democratic Court", "Islamic Court" Calls Fellow Islams Kaafirs

The Israeli government voted to appoint an Arab Muslim to the cabinet for the first time in the history of the Jewish state.
"Raleb Majadleh", was inducted as the first Arab Muslim in the Israeli Cabinet. The Deputy Prime Minster Shimon Peres told AFP, "time has come for an Arab minister in our cabinet. I hail the decision."
However, some Arab lawmakers, condemned the appointment of Majadleh, who replaces former culture minister Ophir Pines-Paz who quit last October in protest at the addition of Lieberman’s party to the coalition government.
Raleb, "the 53-year-old lawmaker said that his appointment is a right step in the direction of equality. "The first step has been taken and this has given Israeli Arabs a feeling of belonging," told Israel's Army Radio.
Israeli Arabs are descendants of the 160,000 or so Palestinians who stayed in their lands after the Jewish state was declared in 1948.Arab-led parties account for 10 of the seats in the 120-member Israeli parliament.
Contextually, rather more ironically, the erstwhile "The Islamic Court of Somalia", in it's new form and naming itself, "the People's Resistance", in an Iraqi style video postings, warned the occupiers of further bloodshed and war...... urged Somalians to unite,......."
"In an Audio tape released by some of the major Somali Islamic scholars currently in Madiina Saudi Arabia, declared any one who helped the Ethiopians in their aggression against the Muslims to be kaafirs (non Muslims) and should be fought the same," as Ethiopian and the Somali presidents agreed to 'peace talks', to form a new government after meeting with the EU and the Arab league, during the African Union summit there.
Speculative rumours are being aired that, they privately threatened to withdraw their recognition of the government if the presidents did not agree to a new government involving the 'Islamic courts' and the 'Islamic loyalist parliamentarians led by the speaker of parliament Shariif Hassan' who are self exiled in Djeabuti.
"The Islamic Court", earlier for the first time in as many weeks issued a press release to Muslims affiliated websites. experts of the press release is translated in English:
"We would like to inform the Somali people that the entire heads of the Islamic courts are safe and well, today Somalia has suffered an aggression from three different places"
1. America with its intelligence, training, funding, helped the enemy to occupy our land, they also added with war from air, land and sea.
2. The enemy Ethiopian that was sent to conquer the land
3.Kenya who helped with sanctions on political, border activities and handing Ethiopian opposition prisoners to the Ethiopian enemy.
"We would like to tell the Somali people they are under foreign colonization and we in the Islamic courts and every individual is our duty to fight these modern occupation"
"We are announcing to the Somali people that we no longer recognize the puppet "government" who have brought Somalia historic enemy to our lands"
"We in the Islamic court are still fighting in the Jubba regions and the attacks that are taking place in Mogadishu"
"We will continue to fight with our wealth and soul until our land is free from enemy occupation and colonization."
When more and more people everywhere , are asserting their wishes for a peaceful 'world order', the 'religious intolerance', shown by a few people of one particular Religion, through such 'venom-injecting', seductive instigation of their people, can certainly not augur well for that.
Nation and it's Nationality are unfortunately, mostly tagged with their religious misleadings, through misinterpretations of some 'self-proclaimed fanatic-heads', and/or 'dogmatically- conservative' Religious heads.
Just 5 days ago, in Egypt, the "Grand Mufti", Sheikh Ali Gomaa , succeeding Muhammad Sayyed Tantawy, said in an official Fatwa or religious edict, that was published Saturday by leading state daily Al-Ahram, that Islamic Sharia (or Islamic law) bars women from becoming head of state.
"If by political rights, we mean the right to vote, stand as candidate or assume public office, then the Sharia has no objection to women enjoying them, but a woman cannot serve as head of state."
Adding further he said, womens' conduct of their political rights must not break "the ethical laws of Islam", and that they should not therefore "take off the head scarf, deck themselves in fine clothes, or be alone with men who are not their husbands or close relatives."
How cynical and dogmatic, that too the "Grand Mufti" can be !!
Look how the same "Grand Mufti", is contradicted, by moderate public interpreters of the same religious group who add in the same article, "The Muslim cleric’s Fatwa however shouldn’t be misinterpreted as considering Muslim women inferior to men." !!!
They go on to put the Fatwa of their "Grand Mufti(!)", under the carpet pleading(or cajoling !),
'Men and women are both subject to Divine Retribution which is equal for the capacity of each. The Holy Qur’an stresses this in multiple verses."
The spiritual equality between men and women for instance is reiterated in verse 4:124, as follows:
“As for those who lead a righteous life, MALE OR FEMALE. while believing, they enter Paradise; without the slightest injustice”
and again in 16:97
"Anyone who works righteousness, MALE OR FEMALE, while believing, we will surely grant them a happy life in this world, and we will surely pay them their full recompense for their righteous works.”
and yet again in 40:40,
"Whoever commits a sin is requited for just that, and whoever works righteousness - MALE OR FEMALE - while believing, these will enter Paradise wherein they receive provisions without any limits."

Then who should the confused 'global Islamic community', follow to ??

And when shall there be a true 'tolerant synchronisation', between "Words and Deeds",of our fellow global Islam-Brethrens ???

May God Enlighten them with 'Tolerance,Compassion and Sense for True-Judgement' !

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Probes On Disordered Execution :Saddam

This aricle should have been in my post earlier,

but posted belated, due to a fire in the Regional

Branch of National Internet Backbone of India on

the 29th Dec., that took an unprecedented 8 days, for

the entire internet services to restore and this blogger

was disgustedly handicapped.

However it is always 'better to be late than never' .

The interesting article, Iraq Probes Disorder At Hussein Execution

can't be left unpublished and missing my page !

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History Created At US 110th Congress

Nancy Pelosi, the 'first-lady-speaker', elected by the 110th US House of Congress, to whom is dedicated this post of mine, thanks to washingtonpost.

Wish her a pro-active career, to leave behind a 'Golden Imprint' for her successors to follow.

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MSN Encarta Article: George Washington

This day, Dec.23rd,1783, George Washington, retired as Army Commander-in-Chief , who went on to don the Honour of being, the First President of America, 6 years later in 1789.

Washington DC the capital of America is named in honour to him.

Isn't it worth enriching our knowledge on him this day (unfortunately here it is already Dec 24), with thanks to MSN Encarta !

Happy reading and a wish of Merry-Christmas and a Happy New-Year-2007 !

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Only a Dead stops Learning : Meles Zenawi :PM Ethopia

Another masterpiece of an interview from,washingtonpost.com.

"Stephanie McCrummen of the Washington Post sat down this week with Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi to discuss rising tensions with Somalia's Islamic Courts, and the state of democracy inside the country."

Thanks,for awakening the people of the world with the alarming spread of 'Neo-Imperialism' by the 'self-proclaimed-emperors' the talibans !! This has taken shape of a 'deadly viral epidemic', a threat to the civilised world-order today.

To my readers in India,this post,courtesy the washingtonpost.com, I would like to dedicate, to make them aware of Ethiopian PM Mr.Meles Zenawi's use of words,like 'secularism','appeasement' and his reactions to 'beautification' of terrorism.

How ironical are these in Indian perspective !

Before this epidemic goes beyond control, all civilised people of the Globe must unitedly fight such 'Diabolic Evils', with iron hand and without any mercy and plea of clemency.

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Joint Chiefs reportedly recommending change in Iraq strategy

Joint Chiefs of US recommended a change in Iraq strategy, as per Seattletimes News Source

The 'Dawn' of Peace in Iraq, is a 'Resolve' and 'Assurance' that America owes to the entire group of countries of the world be them who are spewing venom at,or those preferring to remain neutral and the rest who have the courage to 'call a spead a spead'.

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Digg Story: India's Ode to 12/13 :Democracy Oblivious In Chains

I would like to share my digg story with you on this Black-D-Day of attack on Indian Parliament, five years ago, by the 'slaves of the evil', with 'my call', to all Patriots of INDIA to take a Solemn, 'Never To Forget Resolve', as the Americans, which is adoring my site, that shall continue to do so and 'keep reminding me of our Resolve."

Long Live Democracy !

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FACE the NATION : Advani A Reality

'Face the Nation' slot of IBNLive, today was honoured to have the 2nd 'Iron Man' of India, after Free India's First Home Minister, Sardar Ballav Bhai Patel , the 'Ex-Deputy PM and Home Minister', Mr.Lal Krishna Advani , as their guest.

I am tempted to ventilate instinctively, after going through the entire 'text' of 'Most relevant and expected Questions', being put to him and his as usual 'focussed' way in answering all those, though sometimes seemed controversial, yet his strong visionary and 'perceptive-thoughts' were out in open, candidly being put to words during the entire conversation.

There was a new twist this year to the undigging of the 14 year old grave of the 12/6 demolition. Babasaheb Ambedkar's statue was defaced at Kanpur as usual by the anti-national elements, to inject venom into the emotion-driven minds of the Indian public (this year ironically the Dalits), enrage them to violent riots, disrupt normal public life and destruct public properties.

Riots and chaos in India have become so common now-a-days that people have become immuned to it. Few days of pressure on the govt. machinery and life starts again at it's usual-self !

All these previous 13 years, acts of terrorism in one form or the other as, 'a priory' to 12/6/92 mostly culminated in bomb-blasts in trains, public transports and other vulnerable areas.The deviation to that trend this year, hence is more eye-raising, dubious and more alarming for INDIA as a Democracy, an apprehension that I hate the most to do, but couldnot but do.

Defacing of Babasaheb's statue was more aimed to achieve a political mileage, that was unmasked while the 'Sachar Committee Report' was tabled in the parliament, and the uproars that marred it's proceedings in protesting a disguised and gaurded written statement by the PM, that was less in spirit for real upliftment of Dalits and more as 'muslim-appeasement' vote-bank policy of the government keeping an eye on the upcoming UP Assembly election.

Tomorrow will be the fifth anniversary of the Black-Day in Democratic INDIA when the 'Sanctum Sanctorum' of democracy the Parliament, was attacked by the 'Neo-Power' of the Evil. Ironically, the enemies within, are still procrastinating 'execution' of the chief convict, of that attack, in the name of 'clemency' !

Extremely disusting and shameful was how shameless, so called, self-proclaimed 'progressives' and 'page-3 celebrities' could be, to chose this evening, to 'inaugurate' a book on 'Mohammed Afzal Guru', aimed at making that 'chief convict', a Hero ! And who wrote that book ??? None other than the 'booker-prize winner', Arundhati Roy !!!

The book, 13 December - A Reader: The Strange Case of the Attack on the Indian Parliament , is more of a 'lawyer's argument' than of the writer's literary capabilities, hence only depicts her 'puppyish and slavish' character.

This blogger takes this opportunity to put one of his comments of relevance to 12/06/92, in the article Ayodhya-at-Chikamagalur being copy pasted below.

"I have my say with Pride as representing, 'We the People of India, i;e Bharat'. Will my 'muslim-brethren' and champion 'secularists' reply to my query : What Defines a 'Masjid' and was the disputed-structure really a Masjid ??

If not, are you not denegrating the sanctity of the Holy 'Shrine' i;e Masjid ?? I recall a conversation with one 'Maulabi', just a week after the Dec.6,92. I still vividly remember his words, "Agar koi ek ghar hotel ban jaye to woh ghar, ghar neihin kehlata" = When a house is transformed into a hotel, it no more is called a home=

India,i;e Bharat, was during thousands of years of it's history, still is today, and shall continue to remain in future also, a 'secular' country, till and until the minority community co-exist with 'Love, Compassion and Total Faith', on their majority Hindu brethren and refrain them-selves from being prey to the evil-designs of the 'vested-interest-groups' and politics of 'Pseudo-Edification and Appeasement'.

Our Akhand-Bharat(Undivided-India) was 'Secular', and still maintains to be so, while the 'Babies' born through 'scissure' out of India in 1947, by the 'Two-Nation Theory', are both 'Theocratic' countries now !!!

Why ???

All, ponder upon, this day the, 12/6 !!!

( Posted: Wednesday, December 06, 2006 at 18:32 ) "

MSN Encarta Article: World War II

=Snap of Pearl Harvor Survivor Veteran William Brown 'oblivious' at the Celebration by US Navy=

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I saw this on the MSN Encarta site and thought you might be interested in:

World War II

Contributed by Earl F. Ziemke,Research Prof. History,University of Grorgia.

This is not to be named a blog rather compilation of a series of eventful literary debates between two history scholars of eminence, an example of how vibrant is Democracy and how powerful is their 'blogoshere' community, acting as a true watch-dog of their country's political and Nationalistic ethos, vis a vis, kudos, to their cultural,political and historical indepth and concern.

I am drawn deep into ocean of ponder and my head bows down to them and their conscious citizenry of a true Democratic country.

The catalysts, those helped streaming down this post of mine, coincidently were one the Celebration by the US Navy, of Pearl Harbor Day(Dec.7), and the second above photo (thanks to The Seattle Times,for their article) of The Survivor-Veteran Mr.William Brown looking oblivious in his uniform with ghastly reminiscences of that D-Day, that stirred my mind.

I will do grave injustice to my conscience, if I do not utilise this opportunity to express my heart-felt gratitude to one of above historian Mr.B.R.Dirck, for his generous gesture in replying to this poor blogger's email, looking at his eminence and stature!

My thanks also goes to another versatile blogger 'elektratig' who is also a link of the chain that I have referred above. I specially wish my readers to go through the blogsite URL and leave it on you to judge and post your comments.

And the last link of that chain, I felt it worth-mentioning to draw attention of my adored readers to, is the pro-active response of President Bush on Iraq issues, and the resolve with which he addressed to the people of America.

Please be patient, in reviewing all the links below and I am hopeful you will get the real essence and spirit of this post, thereby.

It is tried to put down chronologically, below the links :

A.Lincolnblog

He's The Worst Ever

Historians Acting Badly

CNN.com