Saturday, March 06, 2004
India wants to see Bush re-elected
'John Kerry: A thorn in India's side' - headline, Asia Times. According to the article, India recognizes that Kerry's pandering on outsourcing and H1-B visas is damaging to India's interests. Of course it is.
India has never been closer to the United States than under the Bush Administration, and India understands it. For all the bleating in the American media about Bush's supposed unilateralism, it is interesting that the tremendously closer relationship with the world's second most populated country earns virtually no recognition. It would be ironic indeed if President Kerry were to squander all the good will that President Bush has cultivated in India.
UPDATE: The top general of India's army is apparently visiting the United States to meet with Generals Pace and Shoomaker:
General Nirmal Chandra Vij is expected to meet the vice- chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Peter Pace, and US Army Chief Gen Peter Schoomaker, during his visit March 11-12, a defence ministry official said.
Gen Vij's visit is of special significance in light of the Indian Army's expansion drive for its special forces, the defence official said.
How can this be? These talks aren't the least bit unilateralist, and we all know that the Bush Administration is unilateralist.
OK, it is hard to write sarcastically. Let me be direct: the claim that the Bush Administration is unilateralist is almost certainly the least valid attack on the Administration's foreign policy. You don't like Britain, Spain, Italy, Poland and Australia? Our emerging alliance with India is perhaps the most powerful evidence that this Administration reaches out to new potential allies when circumstances change, as they most certainly have.
India has never been closer to the United States than under the Bush Administration, and India understands it. For all the bleating in the American media about Bush's supposed unilateralism, it is interesting that the tremendously closer relationship with the world's second most populated country earns virtually no recognition. It would be ironic indeed if President Kerry were to squander all the good will that President Bush has cultivated in India.
UPDATE: The top general of India's army is apparently visiting the United States to meet with Generals Pace and Shoomaker:
General Nirmal Chandra Vij is expected to meet the vice- chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Peter Pace, and US Army Chief Gen Peter Schoomaker, during his visit March 11-12, a defence ministry official said.
Gen Vij's visit is of special significance in light of the Indian Army's expansion drive for its special forces, the defence official said.
How can this be? These talks aren't the least bit unilateralist, and we all know that the Bush Administration is unilateralist.
OK, it is hard to write sarcastically. Let me be direct: the claim that the Bush Administration is unilateralist is almost certainly the least valid attack on the Administration's foreign policy. You don't like Britain, Spain, Italy, Poland and Australia? Our emerging alliance with India is perhaps the most powerful evidence that this Administration reaches out to new potential allies when circumstances change, as they most certainly have.
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