India elections

[Storebought]

From the article:

On foreign policy, Singhvi said that while "it is important to maintain continuity," the party favored a return to "the doctrine of nonalignment" that defined Indian foreign policy during the Cold War. "The doctrine is all the more important in a . . . world where one country is a supercop," he said. "Will we advocate becoming a part of the U.S. bloc? Obviously not. We are open to trade but will not fall at somebody's feet."

What is WITH these countries, falling over themselves to be the next France? They are so keen on keeping the US shackled to arbitrary international "law" that they don't see the snares of terror laced about their own necks.

But the BJP brought a great deal of their plight on themselves. Vajpayee was a fool for agreeing to early elections, a parliamentary scheme that virtually always leads to catastrophe (only Thatcher had the skill to pull them off). And his Hindu chauvinism and Christian burning were offensive. But he was at least a covert friend of the US and Isreal and kept Pakistan from going nuts with its nuclear bombs these few years.

But the Congress Party won by doing what all left-wing governments do best: pimp poverty

"Congress and its allies, meanwhile, emphasized the continuing poverty in the countryside as well as the dislocations wrought by globalization and economic reform; one campaign ad featured youths staring disconsolately at a locked factory gate"

At least the US won't need to worry about middle-class job outsourcing anymore, now that the Congress will ensure that EVERY destitute Indian family is employed in only government-sanctioned mudpits.

The most worrying trend seen in this election, however, is the murderously stupid appeasement of the Religion of Peace, first seen in Spain:

"At a news conference Thursday night, Sonia Gandhi emphasized her party's secular credentials -- an implicit contrast with the BJP, whose leaders have often been accused of sowing enmity between Hindus and India's large Muslim minority"

Voting for the 'right government' will not stop fanatics! Those creatures intend to kill us all--Christian, Buddhist, atheist, Hindu, but especially Jew. Vajpayee had the sense to play "nice doggie" with Pakistan and India's internal traitors while he searched for a shillelagh to club their brains out. These Congress idiots believe that the dog will stop snarling once they put the stick down!