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To: ratan lal who wrote (2116)	8/2/1998 9:08:00 PM
From: JPR	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 12475

Ratan: Thanks for your input. Forgive me for a lengthy reply. You may skip, if you so desire. No offence will be taken. I am against nuclear weapons or any weapons of mass destruction period. In a world as it exists today, I would not want India overrun by the Chinese for India's lack of credible defence. In that regard Indian nuclear weapons serve the purpose of a deterrent. We need an Abdul Kalam to that end. Forgive me for digressing a little bit. Secretary Rubin ridiculed what he implied was the gall of India to even think about a seat on the Security Council. Rubin added "let me be very clear on that , Secretary Albright has been very clear on that. India is not going to blow its way onto the Security Council as a permanent member" Seat or no seat in Security Council, it does deny the fact that India is a nuclear weapons state. This denial is tantamount to a delusion on the part of the present members. In American politics esp foreign policy, nothing is written in stone. Just wait and see how the events unfold. The secretaries and administrations come and go, but the reality of nuclear India is a fact of life. America will one day rise out of this self-imposed delusion that India is not nuclear weapons state and therefore denied to be a member of the Security Council. There is no security in this world without India and Pakistan admitted as permanent members of the Security Council. Please let us not confuse and confound the issue with the argument about membership for near-nuclear states like Israel, South Africa, Brazil etc. In my opinion, Talbot, Albright, Rubin and the administration are doing a bang-up job. The situation is new and there is no precedence. Things have changed drastically in South Asia. They simply are lost and they can't draw lessons from old policies, because there was no policy to deal with a situation as it exits in South Asia. Genius is not necessarily destructive in nature. Take Shakespeare, Swami Vivekananda etc. They were not destructive in their pursuits. War is hell and misery no matter who the victim is. So is the case with all the Americans, Japanese and others who died fighting. In a war morality is not necessarily the issue, and winning is the desired endpoint. To that end point each side strives. I understand your saying quoting Gita: Do your duty and leave the rest to the Lord. This Gita advice sounds like it could have come from any one of other religions that one can think of. All religions speak the same universal truth. JPR