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SFGate: World Views : Mumbai attacks postmortem: Anger, tension and shifting geopolitical power

Mumbai attacks postmortem: Anger, tension and shifting geopolitical power
SFGate.com 5 Dec 08 Edward M Gomez “………………..The Bush-Cheney gang cut a special, nuclear-cooperation deal with India, “lean[ing] over backward” to help the Asian economic giant but at the same time “demanding few concessions.” The result “was to compromise the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty by seeming to reward India despite its refusal to join, and despite its development of nuclear weapons. Even more uncomfortably[,] the Bush administration leaned on members of the Nuclear Suppliers Group to treat India as a special case deserving access to nuclear technology.” Maddox points out that the American government’s “position has been that India is an exception that brooks no comparison with Iran, North Korea and other proliferation threats. But [U.S. President-elect Barack] Obama has already said that the first problems facing Hillary Clinton as his secretary of state [will] include North Korea and Iran” and that the long-simmering dispute between Pakistan and India over the Kashmir region “deserves ‘serious diplomatic resources’….

SFGate: World Views : Mumbai attacks postmortem: Anger, tension and shifting geopolitical power

December 5, 2008 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Uncategorized