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Robert D Kaplan, Obama Takes Asia by Sea; China, not on the itinerary, is the realtarget of the trip. New York Times, Nov. 12, 2010 (title in the print).
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/12/opinion/12kaplan.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=kaplan%20india&st=cse

My comment:
(a) I started paying attention to Mr Kaplan the past January, when he wrote about geopolitics of South Asia.
(b) diversionary (adj): "tending to draw attention away from the principal concern : being a diversion"   www.m-w.com
(c) The term "hydrocarbon interstate": hydrocarbon alluding to petroleum moving from Middle East; interstate is an American shorthand for interstate highways.
(d) For Harappans, see Indus Valley Civilization
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indus_Valley_Civilization
(a Bronze Age civilization (3300–1300 BCE); flourished around the Indus River basin; The mature phase of this civilization is known as the Harappan Civilization, as the first of its cities to be unearthed was the one at Harappa, excavated in the 1920s in what was at the time the Punjab province of British India (now in Pakistan))

* Indus River
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indus_River
(originates in Tibet, where the river is named in Wylie transliteration of Tibetan language as Sênggê Zangbo "Lion River"--thus Chinese: 森格藏布/狮泉河/印度河; flooded in 2010)

Section 2 History: "The name Indus is used in Arrian's Indica for the mighty river crossed by Alexander, based on Nearchus's contemporaneous account. 'Indus' is a Hellenic derivative of the Iranian Hindu, in turn derived from Sindhu, the name of the Indus in the Rigveda[, an ancient Indian sacred collection of Vedic Sanskrit hymns]. The Sanskrit Sindhu generically means river, stream, ocean, probably from a root sidh meaning to keep off.

(e) Mughal Empire
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mughal_Empire
(Mogul (also Moghul) Empire in former English usage; was an Indian imperial power that ruled a large portion of the Indian subcontinent. It began in 1526, invaded and ruled most of South Asia by the late 17th and early 18th centuries, and ended in the mid-19th century; The name Mughal is derived from the original homelands of the Timurids, the Central Asian steppes)

(f) Wahhabi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wahhabi
(a Sunni Islamic sect based on the teachings of Muhammad ibn Abd-al-Wahhab, an 18th century scholar from what is today known as Saudi Arabia, who advocated purging Islam of what he considered impurities. Wahhabism is the dominant form of Islam in Saudi Arabia)

(g) Nicholas J. Spykman
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_J._Spykman
(1893-1943; section 1 Spykman's Geostrategy--subsection 2 Rimland)



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