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About India's influence in South East Asia: http://www.esamskriti.com/essay-chapters/India%60s-relationship-with-South-East-Asia-1.aspx

India not treating smaller countries with respect ?? That's the biggest joke of the century ! If India has no respect for others, there wouldn't have been a NAM. Even our history from the past thousands of years shows how we existed amicably, peacefully with countries from all over Asia...

Being America's poodle certainly has its benefits, ain't it. But to say that that every nations that wants to grow rich and modern should be an American stooge is a really stupid analogy. Why we chose not to side with the US was because the founding of our nation was based on socialist...

Man, you are bloody hung up on this "India giving permanent seat to China" statement, which you bring in every damn discussion about India, China and US. It was a mistake and yes, Nehru is a fool for doing this. Even we acknowledge that fact. But that's in the past, so nothing can be done about...

Well their intelligence wasn't great enough to tackle the two behemoths: US and USSR. Period.

I can keep bringing counter points to what you just said, but I think we better cut it here. Well, that's the price you pay for being a super power. Thank God we don't have such responsibilities. By the way, what's wrong with "intelligent" Koreans ? :confused:

I never said that in the literal sense. Or maybe I used the wrong word. What I wanted to convey was that the US and the Soviets propped up NK and SK and took advantage of the conflicts between them to serve their own interest. And I would say that again, that I feel the greater powers had no...

I am not disrespecting the Koreans here. You interpreted me wrong. I am saying that what the Koreans thought and desired was of no relevance to the great powers and they muzzled their opinions and brain washed them to side with them (I mean the North by Communists and the South by the US and...

Yeah, they would have. But it was a civil war between the North and the South. I still feel the US and other powers had no business there. Read my previous comments, I have stated that the real war was between Communism and Capitalism, and all these countries were used by the powers.

Read my earlier comments, I have stated that all the powers involved had their own agendas along with the US in the Korea war. I am not blaming the US alone in this case. It all comes down to one simple thing, that all these powerful external forces decided the fate of the country, and not the...

Talking to a South Korean today makes no sense. I am talking about 5 decades back. At the beginning of the Cold War, the US government assumed that all communists, regardless of nationality, were controlled or directly influenced by Moscow; thus the US portrayed the civil war in Korea as a...

Come on mate, I have better things to do here than gripe ! I agree some times the America bashing here is meaningless, but not always. Korea: At the Potsdam Conference (July–August 1945), the Allies unilaterally decided to divide Korea—without consulting the Koreans—in contradiction of...

Point taken. I have the same views on what you quoted above. About the mistakes, I will respond to W.G. Ewald post.

I forgot. Thanks for pointing out. Actually its a combined British and American problem. The Brits divided us and the Americans nurtured the Pakis.

Korean peninsula, Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan ! That's a long string of mistakes spanning half a century, why no improvement ?