Will the real Comrade please stand up?

I see red... Communist RED! For anyone with half an eye open... you'd know what I'm talking about. The sheer amount of noise that our Left politicians are making about the 123 Agreement, is I bet, sufficient enough to wake up the next type of carbon based life forms on the yet-to-be-discovered planet around Proxima Centauri!

They just wouldn't shut up!

Its like this really mis-behaved child who has now decided to cry at the top of his lungs all night long about the 'monster under the bed' just because he wants to prove to his totally annoyed parents that there does indeed, actually exist, a monster under the bed. Never mind the fact that only the kid thinks that to be the case!

Thats what our great comrades are doing with respect to the Nuclear Deal with the U.S.

According to them, the deal is bad because:

1. The U.S. is an imperial evil empire
2. They want to control India
3. This will impose U.S. will on our foreign policy
4. The U.S. is an imperial evil empire
5. They will weaken the country
6. The U.S. is not USSR
7. The U.S. is an imperial evil empire

Well, never mind the Left support for the Iranian nuclear program... India should not be fortunate enough to have one! I don't get what they are thinking. Their imposition of their ideology on the country is more harmful than what the U.S. can ever hope to achieve with their 'hidden agendas' in the 123 Agreement. They are holding hostage a legally, democratically elected national government just because they aren't buying fancy toys from the Left's preferred toy stores... Russia... and well... any one non U.S.

Anyone whoz has read anything on the matter will know to what great lengths both the Indian and the American governments have gone to reach an amicable agreement which actually benefits India. The Indian negotiators have to be praised for standing their ground and not making concessions on their ideally proffered positions. Having followed this in Indian as well as American publications, I gathered that it is now widely accepted, that the U.S. actually conceded more than they wanted to and for the first time, India got exactly what it went out for. So much so, that for the first time in the Bush administration, a greater good has been identified and selfishness has been side-lined. There so much lobbying going on in the U.S. to garner support in the Congress for this deal that it is almost unprecedented! The U.S. wants to give it to us... now the question is... will take it? or will we strike the very hand that they hold out to us?

What the Communists say is that there exists a U.S. law which prohibits the export of Nuclear material to foreign countries like India who have not even signed the CTBT, if they cross certain lines (like conduct nuclear tests). And in case, India conducts another nuclear test, then this U.S. law will prevail and the U.S. would hold the right to withdraw material and support and hence dissolve the agreement. Therefore, India will be bound by this fear and hence our sovereignty will be compromised.

What they don't factor in is:

1. This agreement opens the door for other counties (Nuclear Suppliers Group or the NSG) to sell material and technology to India under a special exemption from current international laws. The same laws and sanctions due to which India has had to develop everything on its own, painfully slowly and had to compromise on many other things which could not be done here. Things which we were prohibited from having otherwise. So now the world is our play ground... but our Commie friends don't wanna play!
2. India bargained for and got the U.S. to agree that it will be India who will decide which facility (present and future) is civilian and which is military. Therefore, there is no question of putting our strategic resources in danger.
3. The U.S. needs us as much as we need them. This extraordinary agreement is proof of that. So many concessions and the most powerful government in the world lobbying so hard to get us... India... more nuclear material is a first in history. Of course, in us, they probably seek a long time ally... most likely a military ally as well... but why should we not eat a free candy now... especially when we haven't promised to do anything in return for it later!?!?

And by the way... would the Commies be making the same amount of mind-boggling noise if this was a deal with the bunch-of-countries-formerly-known-as Soviet Union???

I don't think so.

You may not like the imperial west Comrades, but please don't force on us your dislikes and for heaven's sake... don't make us go through a mid-term poll... cause that would be the worst thing to happen to this country since Narendra Modi. Destabalizing India for the sake of personal ideology would not only be anti-national but also dangerous. You've let your displeasure be known... now can you please just start behaving again?

The current Left parties anthem
(un-official ofcourse)

Fe fi foe fum; we only like Soviet rum;
te ti toe tum; the U.S. is an imperial bum;
se si soe sum; we like proving ourselves really dumb;
me mi moe mum; we like the way China is run;
ki ki kow kum; lets rock the center just to have fun.