Nixon to China, Bush to India
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Thirty years of lectures on nonproliferation and sanctions have done
nothing to stop, slow down or make India's nuclear program safer.
By Fareed Zakaria
Newsweek
Feb. 27, 2006 issue - There has been remarkably little discussion in
the United States of what is perhaps the major strategic initiative of
the Bush second term. The administration is pursuing an objective,
which, if successful, could bear some similarities to Nixon's opening
to China in 1973: a proposed nuclear agreement with India. This might
sound like an esoteric issue for policy wonks, but it is a big deal. If
successful, it could well alter the strategic landscape, bringing India
firmly and irrevocably onto the world stage as a major player,
normalizing its furtive nuclear status and anchoring its partnership
with the United States. But the policy, which is currently in some
trouble, has to succeed. And for that to happen, strategists on both
sides will have to prevail over ideologues.
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