The Bubble Bursts urstruly #9
You remind me of a Khomeini sitting in Paris directing the islamic revolution in iran. Detroit will one day be remembered as a place where revolutions were hatched and history made & remade.

Rethinking Foreign Policy -- Can Pakistan and India Agree? DMji, your article here is well intentioned but muddleheaded as usual. You trot out the usual line of how Musharraf is good for india. Dictators are hardly good for anyone and strengthening Musharraf hands further would be disasterous for us in the long run. Peace made under duress by one party cannot last very long. India should put any peace processes on hold until a popular government is duly elected in pakistan.
India`s stance on kashmir is indeed driven by concerns to come off as morally correct to some extent . That is why kashmir remains a part of the indian union where not any indian citizen can buy property and become a legal resident, a concept antithetical to the very definition of the union.

Varanasi Explodes #27 umermurtaza
hear hear

Why is Bush so Keen on a Nuke Deal ? arjun
just a general observation - why do you think Fred Kaplan`s opinion is any more worthwhile than, say, your own?
I don`t see in what he wrote anything new or insightful. It`s just a bunch of cliche`s strung together. I have nothing against Kaplan, not having read him much, but in general, why are the OPINIONS of some people more valuable unless they contain some new insight or some such.
As they say, opinions are like a$$holes - everyone has them. Why are some a$$holes more important?

Why is Bush so Keen on a Nuke Deal ? #95 nabendubabu,
Jang paraphrased Blackwell as saying the quickest way to empty a drawing room in dilli is to mention india as a buffer against china - so one may surmise being a buffer state for amrika is not on india`s interest.
Bush wants india to open up to the walmarts selling cheap chinese manufactured goods? What`s in it for the USA?
At any rate, it all boils down to our need to show up pakistan (& pakistan`s desperation to show us up) - at least that`s what your post suggests. The last time the darkies were fighting among themselves and got the white man to pick sides we ended up with a 200-year overlordship...
So hasanji is on to something.

Why is Bush so Keen on a Nuke Deal ? #43
metaphorically speaking

Why is Bush so Keen on a Nuke Deal ? #34 kulharee
Must be the pressure of the job...

Why is Bush so Keen on a Nuke Deal ? #25 bongdongs, i reread what you wrote. Whereas i chalked it up to arrogance, incompetance and disinterest, you`re insinuating a sinister motive for visa denials. Doesn`t sound right to me.

Why is Bush so Keen on a Nuke Deal ? On the visa denial thing, the American Physical Society is on the record condemning the increased number of visa denials.

Why is Bush so Keen on a Nuke Deal ? Just to summarize (Kulharee please close your eyes & ears), the Bush administration has a haphazard foreign policy whose only coherent element seems to a vague anti-terrorist, pro-democracy sloganeering. Its attitude on various issues is full of contradiction - it wants to improve science & technology and yet has run roughshod over universities with respect to F1 visas, funding for research into alternative energy, reducing funding for education while declaring no child is to be left behind, etc., etc. To divine meaning into their actions is next to impossible.
Apparently a lot of indians, including some policy makers are looking forward to Manmohan Singh`s speech this week to understand the import of the deal reached with the US. Everything has been hush-hush and one wonders if this is nothing more than an emperor going senile and walking out buck naked to the rahrahing of the crowd.

Why is Bush so Keen on a Nuke Deal ? #19 bondongs please come down to my level. You`re speaking in riddles. When did students, professors and artistes become members of the politburo?

Why is Bush so Keen on a Nuke Deal ? #17 Sorry that`s insipid. Even the soviet union was actively courted during the cold war with its scientists and cultural ambassadors getting visas with ease.
A healthy partnership begins with cultural (and scientific) exchange. The host country has nothing to lose and denial comes across as crass and meanspirited. But it`s also shooting itself in the foot since it`s the universities that are complaining about F1 visa denials and the concomittant decrease in the number of students from india & china.

Why is Bush so Keen on a Nuke Deal ? #13 I hope you`re right.
Just last week there was a news item that a scientist from swaminathan research center was refused US visa to attend a conference. No reasons were given and he was asked to try again in a few months. Apparently visa denial for students and educators is on the rise. Doesn`t exactly inspire confidence that there is some stirrings of a strategic partnership, does it?

Why is Bush so Keen on a Nuke Deal ? #10 said Kulharee tongue-in-cheek (which cheek, whose cheek);)

Muslims and Modern Banking: A Rejoinder Mr. Masadi, hamidmji is both a genius and a clown. You should really ignore him if you wish to ignore him.

Muslims and Modern Banking: A Rejoinder Mr. Masadi, hamidmji is both a genius and a clown. You should really ignore him if you wish to ignore him.