Don’t they deserve something better?

It always bothers me as to why Indians (mostly Hindus, but can add others also into the list) get so cornered when it comes to dealing with Muslims or Islamic countries. A classic case of such behavior is India’s vote against Iran and thereby referring it to IAEA.

I don’t understand how is the world more unsafe if Iran is going to legally get some nuclear arsenal. IMO, the world is safe if it’s a unipolar world (USA being the power center) or a multipolar world (where all major countries take the center stage). Most smaller western nations like Finland, Sweden, Switzerland or USA centric Asian nations like Japan, Philippines openly support uni-polar world, all other major countries who would like to have share in the power pie vouch for multi-polar world. Due to strategic interest w.r.t my Indian citizenship, I want the latter option.

As far India’s strategic interests are concerned, world is unsafe if Pakistan has the arsenal than Iran and the Satan has got the dog bone anyways. Those bastards have stolen right from the nuclear bazaar. Why not let Iran also have it. Won’t it help Iran to deal better with Pakistan w.r.t to Baluchistan? Shouldn’t that be in India’s best interests to make sure that Pakistan has to work harder on its other side of border instead of on Kashmir?

Besides the security strategies, India has a lot to lose by not buying the cheap oil from Iran, which is selling oil for much lesser price than what Saudis are quoting to us? Isn’t it better that we buy oil from a non-arabic country? Are we such beggars that we make Saudi king as chief guest for our republic day and fart on face of Iran – is that what they get for being the nation which favors India the most? Until the militant Wahabi culture has taken over within the last century, the Indian Muslim (not Mughul) culture is influenced more by progressive Sufi/Persian culture which was widely prevalent in parts of Iran and Afghanistan. It is only fair to extend the camaraderie back to our real friends beyond borders.

I think Indian government has made an irrevocable mistake, which is going down in history that we betrayed Iran. At least the dillydallying tactics (which is crown bread and butter of a Congresswala) like abstaining from vote would have done some face-saving. While Russia and China (whose vote actually matter) are taking their own sweet time in deciding which way to go, India jumped into the pile way too soon and this is a point of no return.

cheers
-P