Campbell to visit India regarding East Asian affairs

Posted By: Gary Zaetz | Cary, North Carolina | June 12th 2011 | 13:06

On the occasion of Assistant Secretary of State Campbell's visit to New Delhi, it is appropriate to recall a humanitarian tragedy which is the direct result of the Obama Administration and the UPA Government agreeing to kowtow to Chinese intimidation. In Arunachal Pradesh, a northeast Indian state which borders on China, there are located hundreds of crashed American aircraft that disappeared supplying China during World War II. The remains of most of the men who manned these planes are still unrecovered. Beijing has denounced on the airwaves of China Radio International the joint US-India operations started in 2008 under President Bush to recover the bodies of these airmen, on the grounds that this territory actually belongs to China rather than India. And how have Washington and New Delhi responded to this denunciation? They canceled the recovery operations in order to avoid annoying Beijing. This policy of appeasement by the Singh Government and the Obama Administration crushes the hopes of hundreds of American families that their loved ones' remains will soon be returned.