Similarly, pushing Nepal into China’s arms – comforted by UK and USnoises about democracy – is utter idiocy. We have seen the UK practice ‘democracy’in its colony in Northern Ireland, and the US in its Monroe-Doctrine backyard inLatin America. The UPA pontificates about democracy in Nepal while strangling itin Goa and Jharkhand; and the US while colonizing Iraq and Afghanistan. The US,self-proclaimed human rights champion, is, according to a dramatic report in theUK Guardian ("One huge US jail", March 19), setting up torture centersfor detainees all over the world.