Hindustan Times/Reuters: US aims to set aside India reactor controversy

[PhilipShore]

Hindustan Times
Reuters
Carol Giacomo
January 19, 2006

http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1602400,00050001.htm

The Bush administration, confronting a potential threat to its 2005 nuclear deal with India, has signalled it will set aside concerns that New Delhi violated a previous agreement with the United States.

For 30 years, the United States led the effort to deny India nuclear technology because it tested and developed nuclear weapons in contravention of international norms. India has refused to sign the nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty.

But Bush now views India, a rising democratic and economic power on China's border, as an evolving core US ally and the new nuclear deal is central to that vision.

[rodeodance]

1. 30 years of hard work trying to decrease nuclear arms/India is going

down the drain.

.....For 30 years, the United States led the effort to deny India nuclear technology because it tested and developed nuclear weapons in contravention of international norms. India has refused to sign the nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty.

But Bush now views India, a rising democratic and economic power on China's border, as an evolving core US ally and the new nuclear deal is central to that vision.

[Warren Stupidity]

2. NPT dead. Killed when we marched into Baghdad.

One of the underlying assumptions behind the nuclear nonproliferation treaty is that the great powers would not use their conventional or nuclear forces against non-nuclear nations to persue their national objectives, that the non nuclear nations would not have to "nuke up" in order to achieve parity, that instead international organizations such as the UN would be used to peacefully resolve conflicts. That assumption became inoperative as the neocons initiated their PNAC plan for US world hegemony based on the use of our superior conventional and if need be nuclear forces. Using the smokescreen of the 9-11 'pearl harbor' event to justify implementing the plan they documented in 1998, the neocon cabal has set out to destroy all of the regimes it considers a threat. Iraq Iran and North Korea were all specifically identified as on the short list of nations that would soon be reconstituted by force. Iraq tried compliance to our demands as a strategy for survival while North Korea went for deterrence. One nation no longer exists, the other is no longer threatened. The message is clear: non proliferation is not an option for nations that wish to remain independent of our rule.