Donald Trump isn't the first US President to sanction India. Richard Nixon was the first. His conversations with his national security advisor Henry Kissinger during the 1971 India-Pakistan War reveal how some American leaders view India.
1. Washington DC, December 3, 1971, 10:45am.
Nixon is on the phone with Kissinger, hours after Pakistan launched simultaneous attacks on six Indian airfields, a reckless act that prompted India to declare war.
Nixon: So West Pakistan is giving trouble there.
Kissinger: If they lose half of their country without fighting they will be destroyed. They may also be destroyed this way, but they will go down fighting.
Nixon: The Pakistan thing makes your heart sick. For them to be done so by the Indians and after we have warned the bitch (reference to Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi). Tell them that when India talks about West Pakistan attacking them it's like Russia claiming to be attacked by Finland.
