Sarah Paine
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And, of course, we could do nothing about that.
And the 1965 war, the Pakistanis are using U.S.
tanks to go after Indians in the largest tank battle since World War II.
So there are a lot of upset people in South Asia.
But here is Ayub Khan.
leader of Pakistan, telling the United States that the United States forgets that our security hazards and political liabilities have increased to a dangerous level due to this U-2 stuff.
And we kept our part of the contract whilst the Americans betrayed us at every turn.
They built up India against us.
They failed to help us in the 65 war and finally stopped military aid.
They think that we exist for their convenience and that our freedom is
So when the lease came up for the listing post at Badabar in 1968, the Pakistanis canceled it.
They're sick of it.
Meanwhile, the Indians weren't too thrilled about the United States either.
This is earlier when Franklin Delano Roosevelt was president.
Here's Mahatma Gandhi telling him, allied support for freedom and democracy seems hollow so long as America has the Negro problem in her own home.
Indians were appalled by segregation.
They knew exactly which end of the bus they'd be sitting on.
So there are issues both ways.
And in fact, Nehru and his daughter Indira Gandhi found the United States really impossible to work with.
And they looked at capitalism as the way station to imperialism and fascism, whereas Americans looked at socialism as the way station to communism.