Dr Man Mohan Singh in Bush land – sold out
Today our Prime Minister starts his three day state visit to the USA. And all his events are already sold out. He is obviously a big hit with the US crowd. The National Press Club luncheon on July 20 is totally sold out and no passes are available for his address to the joint session of Congress. Though Dr. Singh is not as eloquent as his illustrious predecessor, Atal Behari Vajpayee, our PM is respected for his status as a civil servant and economist of international repute. It was almost exactly five years ago in September 2000 that Prime Minister Vajpayee addressed the US Congress and had they bothered to take him seriously then, may be they could have averted the major tragedy of September 2001. Almost exactly a year before the 11/9 tragedy, Vajpayee told the US Congress,
As many of you here in the Congress have in recent hearings recognised a stark fact: no region is a greater source of terrorism than our neighbourhood.
Indeed, in our neighbourhood -- in this, the 21st century -- religious war has not just been fashioned into, it has been proclaimed to be, an instrument of State policy.
Distance offers no insulation. It should not cause complacence.
You know, and I know: such evil cannot succeed.
But even in foiling it could inflict untold suffering.
Until Tomorrow with more DDT
Have a nice day.
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