Why Bush is so keen on boosting India

It is highly intelligent to court India. 1) The nation is a democracy. 2) India has began the slide away from socialist democracy toward capitalist democracy. 3) A strong India will be an excellent counter-weight to Communist China as a military rival in the Asian realm.

All of these benefit American National Interest more than deter.

There are other considerations as well. Pakistan is an ally with America in the War on Terror. Unfortunately, that may change if the Islamofascists eliminate Musharraf. There have been many attempts by Islamofascist psycho to assasinate Musharraf. If that ever happens, assuredly Pakistan will gravitate toward Islamofascism. Pakistan is a nuclear WMD nation.

Another consideration is Iran. Iran is already a psycho-Islamofascist nation that has stated goals absolutely contrary to the National Interests of America.

A stregnthened India that is an ally of America will be a logical counter-weight to Islamofascist goals. Mohammedanism has always been at odds with the Hindu/Sikh India.
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Why Bush is so keen on boosting India
March 1, 2006
RockyMountainNews.com

President Bush, who has done as much if not more than any of his predecessors to reshape U.S. policy toward India, is only just now visiting that huge nation. Consistent with his belief that true democracies are unlikely enemies of the United States, Bush has since the outset of his term set out to improve U.S. ties to the world's largest democracy.
For all of its size, India has been something of a global backwater because its protectionist, wildly overregulated form of socialism had left it economically moribund. But a decade of reforms has put it on the road to becoming a world economic power, and warming of relations with the United States has been a byproduct of that.

Denouncing outsourcing has been a cheap way domestically to score political points, but Bush has steadfastly defended the benefits of U.S. firms shipping tasks - customer service, writing software - to India, where they can be performed more cheaply.

Bush's positive attitude toward India, where he had never been until today, mystifies even some Indians. But the president sees India, with which the United States has growing military ties, as a counterweight to China in Asia in both the military and commercial realms.

Last summer Bush ended decades of nuclear ostracism of India by agreeing to sell the energy-short nation nuclear reactors and technology. The quid pro quo for that was that India would disentangle its civilian and military nuclear programs and allow international inspection of the civilian facilities - although a final agreement has been slow going.

Critics say special treatment for India will make it harder to rein in would-be nuclear powers like Iran and North Korea. True, the president is taking a calculated gamble, but, as he has so often pointed out, India is a democracy, the other two are not.