Barack Obama is the president of United States

This is an attempt at a comeback of sorts and you may think what a no-brainer of a title for a post that is suppose to be a “comeback post”, but some people in my country just don’t get this simple fact. Prathiba Patil is our president, albeit a nominated head of the state with zero powers, not Barack Obama, whose powers know no bounds, apples and oranges you see. He is the President of United States of America (USA), you idiots !

Now don’t start looking behind you, this was meant for the electronic media of my lovely country. Specially a section of the media which claims to represent the heart and soul of India. And that heart and soul is the urban upper middle-class. Really !? I am not really sure if they do represent them though. I think we should form a JPC and let them find out the truth or perhaps a SIT, no ! we should form (sic) a one-man Justice I-will-take-twenty-years-to-complete-investigation commission to verify the authenticity of the claim. Now that we’ve settled that debate lets move on to this epic visit to India by the President of United States. Epic, not because he is here to do business with India to the tune of about 10 billion bucks in just three days but because this visit inspired me back to my long forsaken blog ! OK, I am little self-centered, get over it !

He is here to serve the interests of his own country. He is their President and he is right in doing so. I am not expecting my PM to go on a world tour and give freebies to who ever he meets at my cost. And why are we so upset anyway ? The answer is that the President didn’t mention Pakistan in any of his addresses ! Now, WTF ! US needs Pakistan, they blocked NATO supply routes through NWFP for a couple of days and Americans were shitting in their pants ! That’s how important they are to them. Obama can’t say Pakistan is a terrorist state, it may be one but that is irrelevant. Obama can’t even say Pakistan is a failed state, hell ! he can’t even call Zardari by his pet name : Ten-percent ! Even if he calls them some name, it won’t be anything than just that – name calling. The same media was up in arms when Obama had said China has a role in South Asia. We don’t approve of that comment, do we ? One man’s meat is another man’s poison. You can count on Obama to not shoot his foot again with a shotgun. And seriously, we should stop running to some one else hoping that they will fix our problems. You got hit in the guts, spit the blood out and get back on your feet to punch back. We are the USA of South Asia, aren’t we ? Flex some economic muscle, I say ! And this is from a country that aspires to be a global power. If we don’t stop acting like sissies then even Nauru will not give us a hoot !

It is about time we move from this Pakistan fixation, it is not worth the time and effort really. We can deal with them bilaterally but bringing Pakistan in our talks with US, China, Russia, Uganda, Somalia and who ever else we are talking to, just gives them undue importance. It completely messes up the equation. Getting fixated is a thing for the Pakistanis, one look at their newspaper websites and you will know what fixation means. In any case, what ever happens between India and Pakistan is a bilateral issue. Lets keep it that way and try to resolve issues rather than expecting head of state of every other country to toe our line. It is sheer stupidity. I must admit, however, these TV-wallahs do all these drama to just get the eye-balls. Rest assured my friends, you’ve got a couple here !