March 19, 2025 (EIRNS)—On March 18, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard was a special guest at the prestigious Raisina Dialogue in India, invited by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. She began by telling her audience how honored she was to have the opportunity to meet with old friends and with Indian counterparts to discuss strengthening the U.S.-India partnership and “engage directly around timely and pressing issues.” She highlighted the importance of Raisina’s theme “People, Peace, Planet,” emphasizing that “we live in a time where war and conflict is waging on many fronts.” In that context, she referenced the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, founded by Albert Einstein and Robert Oppenheimer in 1945, whose Doomsday Clock is declared to be 89 seconds to midnight—"closer to the brink of nuclear catastrophe than ever before.”
Thus, Raisina’s focus on “peace, people and planet is timely,” she said. “Now is the time for leaders to stand up for these interests that affect us all, she said, but “these goals cannot be achieved by any one person alone. Our ability to make progress toward a peaceful, secure, free and prosperous society begins with us.” To underscore that point, she read an excerpt from John Kennedy’s historic June 1963 commencement address at American University, a particularly relevant part of which was his assertion that “genuine peace must be the product of many nations, the sum of many acts.… World peace, like community peace, does not require that each man love his neighbor. It requires only that they live together in mutual tolerance, submitting their disputes to a just and peaceful settlement.”