Anglosphere in high gear.
While India's "counterbalance" with China is vital equally vital is the counterbalance with Pakistan and the rest of central Asia.
The Paks will soon see that the economic growth in India is desirable for their country. If they want to market themselves to businesses they will need to grow their relatonship with India and the west and reduce their ties to the backwards middle east.
This is a good move. It makes sense strategically, and it makes sense on other levels. As the Indian economy modernizes, we and they are becoming ever more intertwined. Culturally there has been enough cross-fertilization that we are no longer so foreign from one another as we once were.
Technically they are becoming a force in their own right.
And we are both faced with potentially common adversaries. No one wants a war with China, we prefer to do business. But if China goes toxic, there is no other possible ally of any use in such a war, India is it. They have already fought China twice, and while they would also prefer to do business, they could also use a friend should push ever come to shove.
And we both must deal with radical Islam. There things get a little complicated, where Pakistan is India's primary enemy, and we rely on Pakistan's cooperation to get at the bad guys who have taken refuge there. But in large part Pakistan's cooperation comes thanks to India's playing bad cop to our good cop, and we may as well recognize whose help it is that comes grudgingly and whose it is that is offered willingly.
Isn't the term "Indians" offensive?
Shouldn't we be calling them something like native sub-continentals?
As usual the MSM completely misses the story. Quck back to "Get Karl," missing teen in Aruba, any more runaway brides out there?
this is a most facinating political event.
again our president thinks way ahead of the
curve.
it just has to kill the dems to see president Bush
being the great leader he is.