You make some good points, B, even when you’re patronizing.
Still selling this as a means of reducing anyone’s oil consumption is total BS. Far as I can tell the only benefit are to those who sell nuclear power technology, and, of course, also the arsenal deal that was frosting to this yellow cake.
Accordingly we will also give them the tools for a breeder reactors and require 0 oversight. And we toss the nuclear development stale mate out the window in the process. Not that it has a whole lot of meaning any more. Here ya go, boys, go make as many nukes as you’d like, we don’t even want to watch. And, by the way, we’ll buy all the mangos you wanna sell us! I've got at least 3 different sauces that use mango. Gosh the deal makes me feel kind of tipsy – you know, the way you feel just before you vomit.
All Bush is doing is advancing the incomes of folks who make bombs and other WMDs. That seems his legacy. I was wrong before, there is only little hubris, and mostly pimping.
The bigger ploy is to use India to imply a threat against China. Why would they care?
What was it I read, India has a “middle class” of about 300 million, yet 80%+ of the nation’s ~1 billion folks make less than $2 per day, or something close to that. That translates to about 100 million making more than $2 per day. You gotta know they give a rat's a$$ about our values. “Thank you for calling Microsoft technical support. We don’t need to tell you your call is being monitored by your own NSA. Snicker. How can I help you”
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Originally Posted by Botnst
Failing to align with a stable democracy with a demonstrable record of human rights that is virtually surrounded by hostile, jealous, non-democratic countries would be unconscionable.
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We already are aligned. This give away does nothing useful.