Do you have any idea who inspired India to rise above centuries of doubt and fear and to oust Socialism? If you’re thinking Gandhi and Nehru are India’s great heroes today, you’re wrong! More and more, they are regarded with doubt and suspicion because their political system and insistence on India being totally self-supporting isolated the huge subcontinent from the world economy.
The American regarded as the Second Christopher Columbus is given little respect by many in his home country. The first Christopher sought passage to India, was thwarted and never got there. The second Christopher Columbus went to India and changed their lives so much that within 9 years they became one of the most prosperous countries in the world, even though their population surpassed China.
In 1998 an American President, regarded by the world as a political and economic genius, convinced India to try capitalism and effectively change their entire way of looking at themselves and the world at large…particularly America, whom he wanted to enhance our trading base and political alliance with then and now.
Was this man right or wrong? If he was wrong his record would have been enough to defeat him, but if he was right and of the wrong party, well, you can always fall back to smear campaigns…and believe it or not, it works in the US…even though it fails elsewhere. Have you guessed yet who is regarded as the greatest American President, except in Ireland where JFK still reigns supreme?
Defamed across the United States even today for something many believe was set up to bring his party down, Bill Clinton is esteemed, almost loved by other nations. They wonder how we can ignore history and deny him credit for his part in restoring balance to the world economy if only for a short time.
Not trying to tell you to respect the Presidency or Bill Clinton, but you might wonder about your reasons for denying what is common knowledge and now history. Keep in mind the past when you plan your future, and that goes for our nation as well.
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