Focus on our interest

Sir, - This refers to Mr. Muchkund Dubey's `Global campaign against terrorism' and Mr. Achin Vanaik's `Fortress America' (both on Sept. 26), articulating divergent approaches to the emerging international response, initiated by the U.S., to meet the threat of global terrorism. While the former pleads for unreserved, prompt support by India for the U.S.-led campaign without being unduly concerned about Pakistan's preconditions and its possible role, the latter cautions against any hasty judgment prior to even having grasped the full import of the problem and its root causes, which point to the shortcomings in American foreign policy and the U.S. track record of intervention in a number of states across the world, causing destabilisation and disharmony by abetting and encouraging fissiparous trends and sub-state rebel groups.

The viewpoints expressed by Mr. Dubey and Mr. Vanaik present extreme positions and it is difficult to reconcile the two. However, it is advisable that the support India might contemplate extending to the alliance should be with a view to securing its national interests and building up resistance to any subtle move by the U.S. to reshape the world in a unipolar mould.

Manasvi Sharma,

Varanasi

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