US dealt PL480 ship-to-mouth w/us - we got Green Revolution
US sent the Enterprise into Bay of Bengal -we freed BD
US set up NSG to deny nuke tech -we got the bomb AND got into NSG
US denied us cryo engine - we got it
US denied us Cray supercomputer - our box is a top 10 machine
US stayed aloof/played devil's chaplain:
As Churchill engendered genocide of bengalis
As Yahya massacred a few million more bengalis
As Taliban swept thru Af in an islamist orgy of violence
As Libya-Syria blew up as an islamist cauldron
As Allende/Kenyatta/Sankara were murdered
We have 3rd rate govt, mostly a below-avg sensibility population. But we r 1.35 billion of us - any normal curve will have a v large absolute # of talented/sharp/rich Indians who wudnt/cant migrate out. They will ensure we get there, at some stage, on pretty much anythng..
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