A new foreign policy vision

For some years India's foreign policy seems to have become the mirror of US foreign policy. But while advocating close ties with the US, a fellow liberal democracy, I think India can also show some creativity in her own policies.

Traditionally US has allied with Sunni powers in the West Asia, Saudi Arabia being the most notorious and obnoxious of them. The current Saudi regime actively spreads Wahhabism in the world, and may be the single largest catalyst behind the increasing radicalization in the Muslim world. Pakistan is a very good example of the maturing of the typical Saudi experiment.

Can't India do something about this? To be sure, India certianly is doing something through the honest humanitarian work in Afghanistan. Instead of foregoing our relations with Iran if we can use our friendly relations with them to have them give up virulence in their relations with Israel, and moderate them in their millenarian fanaticism, Iran is really not such a bady country, I think. Instead of foregin sponspored 'regime change' if the Iranian regime can genuinely reform from within, nothing better than that. And, democracy in Saudi Arabia will be good to have too.