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Eric Margolis: The White House’s Final Folly

The White House’s Final Folly
THE HUFFINGTON POST Eric Margolis October 10, 2008 After invading Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, turning the Muslim world against America, alienating our allies, authoring the fiasco in Georgia, and presiding over the meltdown of Wall Street and America’s banks, it would seem impossible the Bush administration could produce another epic disaster. But it has.In its final days in office, the White House has engineered an historic nuclear deal with India that Congress, unaware of the import, approved last week………………………………Far from a triumph, this short-sighted strategic agreement with India could very well come back to haunt America. Many Indians feel the same way: furious debate over the nuclear deal almost brought down the coalition government of India’s prime minister Manmohan Singh and barely scraped by India’s parliament.
The agreement will now allow the U.S. to sell nuclear fuel, reactors and technology to India, supposedly for `peaceful energy use.’……………….

President Bush’s `foreign policy triumph’ means that U.S.-supplied nuclear fuel will now keep India’s civilian reactors running, allowing Delhi to divert precious nuclear fuel to its weapons program.

This deal negates thirty years of US efforts to prevent the spread and development of nuclear weapons…………………..The gates have also been opened to U.S. arms exporters to sell state of the art military equipment to India, and to major heavy equipment suppliers like General Electric………………………..

Selling India nuclear fuel and technology that could one day threaten US national security is dangerous and counter-productive. It’s also folly driven by short-term financial greed that blinds the deal’s proponents to the nation’s security.

The first target of India’s ICBM’s will be Washington. As Marx so rightly observed, the capitalists will sell the rope with which to hang them.

Eric Margolis: The White House’s Final Folly

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October 11, 2008 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | politics