A New World
Notwithstanding my criticism of President Bush's Dubai Deal, this President has made his mark on history like no President before him since FDR and perhaps even Teddy Roosevelt. George W. Bush continues to impress me with his foreign policy initiatives and acumen with an uncanny ability to secure history changing alliances and treaties. His level-headed approach to foreign policy has allowed him to see clearly where others have been blinded by sappy liberal utopian ideals. Granted, his War on Terror does have elements of this sappiness, but I believe the President is smart enough to know that when the gig is up then you have to change your strategy.
President Bush's visit to New Delhi this week has become a diadem of glorious beauty in his crown of foreign policy achievements. His newly minted nuclear alliance with the second most populous nation in the world and the largest democracy on the earth is the most underreported and unappreciated event since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989. The American-Indian strategic alliance I predict will be approved by the United States Senate and couldn't come at a more important time. The Law of Diminishing Returns has set in with America's patience in dealing with the Islamic World and with most Arab/Persian/Sunni/Shia Middle Eastern nations secretly and openly defying the West with their War of Terror on the nations that border their civilization, America has seized a great opportunity to forge a new path in international relations to contain International Islamic Terrorism.
A report on the new American-Indian alliance in The Australian summs up nicely the new paradigm from an Australian perspective:
MANMOHAN Singh is an unlikely revolutionary. Yet as the leader of 1.1 billion people, the world's largest democracy and its second-largest nation, the Indian Prime Minister has already enacted three profound revolutions.
As finance minister during the 1991 economic crisis, Singh decisively turned India towards market liberalisation. Then after the last election he became India's first non-Hindu prime minister -- he is a Sikh -- showing the depth of India's secular democracy.
Now, in the nuclear co-operation agreement he has struck with US President George W. Bush, Singh may have marked India's decisive emergence as a global power.
With China reestablishing their relationship with Moscow, India can now reorient their relationship with the Anglosphere that has been the missing link since the advent of the "Third World" after the bloody and self-destructive Second World War that bankrupted the House of Winsor.
The Australian continues:
The nuclear deal is important in itself, but its true significance is as a marker of a new power structure in Asia and the world. A near trillion-dollar economy growing at 8 per cent a year, India in a couple of decades will overtake China as the world's most populous nation.
Bush hailed New Delhi last week as a global power and took every step he could to cement a US-India partnership, in trade, economics, politics, defence co-operation, nuclear technology, the war on terror and the promotion of democracy.
While John Howard will operate on a more modest scale this week, the Prime Minister, too, seems to "get" India and understand the profound challenge it poses for Australian policy.
With an England-USA-Canada-Australian chain of forts around the world, the admission of India with be a welcome advantage for the Anglosphere in what is otherwise a sparse English presence in Southeast and Southwest Asia.
The article concludes:
A prime minister of India is always beset with security challenges, especially of Islamist terrorism originating in Kashmir, and, many Indians believe, in Pakistan. I asked Singh whether he believes Pakistan is still sponsoring terrorism, in India and more widely.
He would not use precisely those words, but the implication of the words he did use is clear enough: "We feel Pakistan has to do a lot more to prevent the use of Pakistani territory for terrorist acts directed at our country.
"I very much hope that Mr Howard will convey this same message (to the Pakistanis). Terrorism as an instrument of state policy is not acceptable to the civilised world, least of all after 9/11. Terrorism is hurting Pakistan as well. We see it every day."
Rule Britainia.
President Bush's visit to New Delhi this week has become a diadem of glorious beauty in his crown of foreign policy achievements. His newly minted nuclear alliance with the second most populous nation in the world and the largest democracy on the earth is the most underreported and unappreciated event since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989. The American-Indian strategic alliance I predict will be approved by the United States Senate and couldn't come at a more important time. The Law of Diminishing Returns has set in with America's patience in dealing with the Islamic World and with most Arab/Persian/Sunni/Shia Middle Eastern nations secretly and openly defying the West with their War of Terror on the nations that border their civilization, America has seized a great opportunity to forge a new path in international relations to contain International Islamic Terrorism.
A report on the new American-Indian alliance in The Australian summs up nicely the new paradigm from an Australian perspective:
MANMOHAN Singh is an unlikely revolutionary. Yet as the leader of 1.1 billion people, the world's largest democracy and its second-largest nation, the Indian Prime Minister has already enacted three profound revolutions.
As finance minister during the 1991 economic crisis, Singh decisively turned India towards market liberalisation. Then after the last election he became India's first non-Hindu prime minister -- he is a Sikh -- showing the depth of India's secular democracy.
Now, in the nuclear co-operation agreement he has struck with US President George W. Bush, Singh may have marked India's decisive emergence as a global power.
With China reestablishing their relationship with Moscow, India can now reorient their relationship with the Anglosphere that has been the missing link since the advent of the "Third World" after the bloody and self-destructive Second World War that bankrupted the House of Winsor.
The Australian continues:
The nuclear deal is important in itself, but its true significance is as a marker of a new power structure in Asia and the world. A near trillion-dollar economy growing at 8 per cent a year, India in a couple of decades will overtake China as the world's most populous nation.
Bush hailed New Delhi last week as a global power and took every step he could to cement a US-India partnership, in trade, economics, politics, defence co-operation, nuclear technology, the war on terror and the promotion of democracy.
While John Howard will operate on a more modest scale this week, the Prime Minister, too, seems to "get" India and understand the profound challenge it poses for Australian policy.
With an England-USA-Canada-Australian chain of forts around the world, the admission of India with be a welcome advantage for the Anglosphere in what is otherwise a sparse English presence in Southeast and Southwest Asia.
The article concludes:
A prime minister of India is always beset with security challenges, especially of Islamist terrorism originating in Kashmir, and, many Indians believe, in Pakistan. I asked Singh whether he believes Pakistan is still sponsoring terrorism, in India and more widely.
He would not use precisely those words, but the implication of the words he did use is clear enough: "We feel Pakistan has to do a lot more to prevent the use of Pakistani territory for terrorist acts directed at our country.
"I very much hope that Mr Howard will convey this same message (to the Pakistanis). Terrorism as an instrument of state policy is not acceptable to the civilised world, least of all after 9/11. Terrorism is hurting Pakistan as well. We see it every day."
Rule Britainia.
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