“Inconsistent and at its worst catastrophically negligent” is how you describe Bush’s “nuclear policy”. This sweeping overgeneralization in your short, 2 paragraph piece fails to address a number of issues underlying the India nuclear deal. For better or worse, Bush has been more consistent than past presidents in using US foreign policy to reward democratic regimes around the world. His approach to India, a country that has been a stable democracy for 60 years in a region of the world otherwise ruled by tyrants, is CONSISTENT with that philosophy. Philosophy aside, a full-fledged economic, military and political alliance with a democratic country that has one-sixth of the world’s population is in the best interests of the United States. This was not possible in the past because India’s political leadership was dominated by socialists, who stubbornly insisted on a “non-aligned” India (not unlike the naive spirit of George Washington’s original vision for America) with a slight lean toward the USSR. With the Soviets gone, the Indian Socialists out of power, and a free market capitalist as India’s current Prime Minister, the time to forge this alliance is now. And Bush has seized the moment. “Catastrophically negligent” sounds really cool but it doesn’t even begin to tell the whole story.

This is how we, in the USA, are ‘protected’.  More ‘nuculear’ (misspelling intentional) for other countries and more chances for another AQ Kahn type character to ‘spread the wealth’ so to speak.  Yeap...$hrubCo sells us out....corporations gain...middle class looses..and we are one step closer to mushrooms everywhere.  The jerk is a catastrophe no matter what he does.

Headless

This immoral and crimal administration makes big bucks when selling America pieces by pieces.

The belly of those criminals will be exploded one day after being gluttonizing with blood and flesh.

Are they human beings ?

Another day, another Bu$h give away. Please let me know when this country gets something in return other than the bill. Just another deal in the surreal world of the Potomac that will come back to bite who in the future? No one cares as long as there’s money to be made now.
Bu$h, Inc. - selling America out one day at a time.

So, non-proliferation has been thrown on the trash heap of history. Bush ressurects the arms race.  The merchants of death celebrate their windfalls.  The GDP spikes. The military-industrial complex is estatic. The earth faces nuclear annihilation… Hardly seems worth it.