NEW DELHI, Feb. 10 -- Power Dictates, 'Creates' Truth

Almost on his first day in office, Donald Trump took America out of the World Health Organisation and the Paris Climate Agreement. He considers all international bodies like the UN wasteful clubs for empty chattering. He goes further. Canada and Mexico are just subordinate parts of the US, and Greenland is a source of rare earth minerals. BRICS will have to pay 100% tariffs, and India is described as "harming" the American economy with heavy tariffs. Whether these goals or statements are fair or foul, intended or unintended, productive or merely provocative, in public perception today, power has the last word in all matters. The great ideals that John Kennedy held up for the nation ha...