A lesson one may think is this: for any misconduct committed by the West, marginalized minority groups somewhere in the world may have to pay the price. After all, on an international stage, any misconduct may simply sustain the cultures of fear and humiliation we face today.
'Africa is the most vulnerable region in America's warpath, a continent ripe for the plucking due to the multitudinous entanglements of Africa's political and military classes with imperialism.'
Turning the US down this time actually frees India's hands to pursue other aspects of the partnership, immune from the charge that it is too responsive to American pressures.
The powers of the West, who have benefited from the oppression of the masses of the Middle East by their tyrant leaders, will rise to hijack the efforts of the people while they appear to be supporting the uprisings, with the intention of influencing the political outcome as in Libya.