Crusades Against Democracy in South Asia
Was Mission Democracy weighing on Richard A. Boucher's mind, as he sat in deafening silence through a two-day regional summit in New Delhi this week? The US assistant secretary for South and Central Asian affairs, as an observer at the Fourteenth summit of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC), could not have been unmindful of President George Bush's counsel to host-state India on a "crusade for democracy." Not a few here had bristled at Bush spelling out the names of India-friendly nations, where the "strategic partner" of the US was expected to intervene for the sacred cause.
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rudkla - 8. Apr, 22:55
