Posted on 03/21/2006 4:10:28 AM PST by unionblue83
President Bush’s early March visit to India will turn out to be an historic event. While the agreement for the United States to provide India with advanced civilian nuclear materials and technology has been the focus of concentrated scrutiny, the geopolitical significance of this emerging partnership will help shape events in Asia for the century ahead. With India forecasted to emerge as the world’s most populous nation and an economy that is developing at a rate of over seven percent a year, New Delhi is poised to become an essential ally to the United States for the foreseeable future. When one weighs the potential gains against the prospective dangers, it is clear that America’s newest relationship will be durable and effective.
Initially conceived with a January 12, 2004 announcement by President Bush and further clarified with the January 18, 2005 “Joint Statement” during Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s visit to the United States, the Next Step in Strategic Partnership (NSSP) has laid the groundwork for an advancing alliance that will witness reciprocated benefits for Washington and New Delhi. NSSP permits American companies to construct civilian nuclear reactors in India and provides Delhi with the raw materials necessary to run the reactors. The Bush administration has also agreed to provide India with advanced civil nuclear technology, unavailable but to only a few.
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providing? why are we providing this foreign country with anything?
END FOREIGN WELFARE NOW!
You seem to assume 'provide' means 'give'. In this case it surely means 'sell.'
The point of the agreement is that by separating its military and civilian nuclear programs, India has provided the basis for trade with the US in a technology rightly under tight control for security reasons.
Close relations, indeed alliance with, India are plainly in the US interest, as India, as stable a democracy as Japan or (West) Germany, is a natural ally against both the current enemy--Islam--and the next enemy--China.
Well said.
You seem to assume 'provide' means 'give'. In this case it surely means 'sell.'
You make this assumption, I do not.
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