Former Indian Ambassador on 'War of Terror'

db: K Gajendra Singh, served as Indian Ambassador to Turkey and Azerbaijan in 1992 - 96. Prior to that, he served as ambassador to Jordan (during the 1990 - 91 Gulf war), Romania and Senegal. He is currently chairman of the Foundation for Indo-Turkic Studies, in Bucharest. In "There Is a Reaction to Every Action, Sir Isaac Newton" linked below he paints a fairly bleak picture for the War of Terror - he also has a challenging, blunt style. His perspective is his own, and his cv makes it of interest.

aljazeerah.info: .. According to psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton who wrote the insightful Superpower Syndrome, in the wake of the September 11 attacks, the Bush administration "responded apocalyptically to an apocalyptic challenge"; of how, facing Islamist fanaticism, it offered its own version of a fundamentalist "world war without end"; of how it perversely partnered up with al-Qaeda in a strange global dance of animosity.[Lord Shiva's tandav dance of destruction] Once again, the London bombs may bolster Bush's waning support domestically, just as his acts globally reinforce the evidently growing support for various al-Qaeda-linked or identified groups. Read more