Most people in the West, including politicians seem to be very naive and gullible people when it comes to politics. Their lack of knowledge in the politics and history of the regions their governments are currently active in has had terrible consequences.
In the West, particularly North America, the average person gets his/her knowledge of the world through biased news networks such as CNN and Fox News or through Hollywood.
In the case of South Asia most people including the politicians learn about the history of the region through biased Indian Hindutva sources.
One that claims India to be the "secular democracy" and Pakistan as the "rogue" "terrorist" "Islamist" state.
Despite the popular claim that Pakistan is the pro-Western puppet and India the tough kid in the neighborhood, the truth is quite the opposite.
The West has always worked with India and has been silent to it's policies through out the decades. It lifted sanctions off India shortly after it's nuclear tests, but Pakistan had to wait until the post 911 era to get sanctions lifted off.
Today India is seen as an excellent proxy in Asia for the West against China and to a degree against Muslim countries.
Many Western history textbooks on South Asia have Indian sources referring to the the region pre-47 as "India," giving credit of every civilization that flourished there to India.
India is also flocked with Western tourists and are often welcomed by high-class Brahmins who simply crave for whiteness.
Whenever an uprising occurs in India, the Western and Indian medias call it "terrorism" and often Pakistan takes the blame for it. But when uprisings occur in Tibet and Xian, the Western media accuses China of "human rights violations."
These double standards in regards India go back decades. The West has made terrible mistakes by putting their immediate interests on the top, not seeing the long term negative impact(s) of it. But the British foreign secretary David Miliband seems to be living outside of the typical Western denial. This denial could very well have prevented 911 assuming it was carried out by Arab terrorists as the West claims and not an inside job.
The oppression in Chechnya, Palestine, Kashmir is what sparks these kinds of terrorists attacks in the first place. Yet all the time Western leaders dub it terrorism because it is an attack against their interests.
Unlike Prime Minister Cameron, George W Bush and others, Mr Miliband did something quite different. He saw the reality of the Kashmir issue and the need to settle it for once and for all in order to regain stability in the region. An article on this is found here.
Even after the British PMs remarks on the ISI, which the Western world and their Indian sidekicks blame on all of their reckless disasters as a result of their own foreign policy, David Miliband once again courageously spoke out to the contrary. Most Indian and Western politicians are too frightened to speak the truth or live in denial like the rest of their governments.
Miliband is just what the West needs as a leader. With a bit of Western pressure, the Kashmir issue could indeed be solved without harming Western interests. Infact, it could even help Western interests. A politically stable India could be the best proxy as opposed to one with political messes.
David Miliband is a man who sees reality for what it is. With a leader like him, the West would be headed in the right direction, preventing massive loss of human lives both Western and non-Western.
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