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Roger:

Do you think the thought of India being in the vicinity of two nuclear powers that have large populations who show a taste for Islamo Fascism had anything to do with their decision? It strikes me as common sense and a strong desire to survive rather then a suprising political move.

Kevin Peters

Here’s the operative paragraph which explains why it is a diplomatic coup for the US-

Its biggest diplomatic victory was to pressure India to make a choice between a new-found friend called the United States and traditional ally Iran. When the crucial hour came, India had to distance itself not just from Iran, but from Russia and China, with whom it works at a trilateral forum, and some of the fellow non-aligned nations who refused to be influenced by the US.

Now Venezuela being in favor of Iran having nuclear weapons-why am I not surprised?

btw-Someone tell Sheehan and Co. if America only invades for oil-why didn’t we go for the closer fields in Chavez Country?

How do you say HOO-IN in Hindu?

And WHY exactly, would Iran be India’s traditional ally?

The US accommodated the wish of the Europeans to give Iran one last chance to return to the negotiating table and abandon its suspected nuclear bomb programme.

Would this be the ‘last’ last chance or merely the latest last chance, soon to be followed by the ‘OK! Now we really mean it, no kidding around,’last’ chance?

What a JOKE. It’s nice that India voted against the PR interests of the Iranian terror-State, but frankly, it matters not a bit.

I’m sure that India had its own reasons for doing so and has communicated same to its business partners in Tehran. In this case it really is ALL ABOUT OIL(or Natural Gas, as the case may be).

And what if the UN, in an act of un-imaginable dedication, actually does sanction Iran ? What will happen ?

NOTHING.

It’s either WAR-WAR or it’s Nukes for all courtesy of the mullahs. They know it.We know it.India knows it. I,m betting on the mullahs.

This pathetic dance of the ‘diplomats’ is now not even unseemly; it’s merely tedious.

This is a hollow victory of verbiage. Soon enough India along with Russia,China & Europe will be pouring money and material into Iran in return for OIL.

And we still won’t even get a UN sanction out of the mess. Wonderful.

Looks like we might be learning a few things from India.

Link to photo

The Indian Navy is first-rate. Won’t be easy overcoming decades of Soviet agitprop and centuries of resentment of anglo colonialism, but this is shaping up to be a far more important relationship for us than our relationships with either France or Germany.

Long past time we shifted our diplomatic attention and resources away from increasingly irrelevant Europe toward those two Asian powers that truly can help or hurt us: India and Russia. A pity that so much of our foreign policy elite remains Atlanticist and euro-centric to the core.

Thibaud — The USAF Air Force recently held some joint exercises with the Indian AF. The Eagle pilots came back VERY thoughtful…

I think the India -US partnership is one of the most important evolving relationships. Both nations share & celebrate the democratic spirit & are very similar in terms of the importance given to freedom.

The nations face similar threats, however India is also economically at potential threat to the US due to similar strengths. you may check out http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/2002587929_injaop28.html , hence managing India is important to the US & vice versa. I dont however think india would blindly toe the US line like many other nations . Regarding Iran i har written a post on it in my blog http://yensthoughts.blogspot.com/2005/10/iiranisraelindiaindependant-foreign.html You may like to hv a look at it.