From: Ad 

The NPT is now a Norwegian Blue. No it's not just resting....

http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/000200612190901.htm

"A senior US administration official has said the India-US nuclear
deal is a "great event" for Indians as it ended a three-decade
long nuclear apartheid and that Washington had taken the lead to do this
for New Delhi.

Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Nicholas Burns also said the
US has taken a lead internationally to bring India to the nuclear
mainstream at a time when New Delhi has become one of its major partners on
counter proliferation, on the spread of democracy worldwide, on stability
with Pakistan and on the Iran question.

"This is a great event for the Indians. They feel, in essence, that
they are being liberated from what they felt was an unfair three-decade
long effort by the rest of the world to isolate it...This is very good news
that the United States has taken the lead internationally to do this for
them," he said.

Noting that there was "larger story" to the nuclear deal than
what it meets the eye, he said that the agreement was a strategic move to
build a new relationship with India.

"This has always been the ultimate unfulfilled relationship since
partition in 1947. I think every American administration since then,
beginning with President Truman, has had the ambition to have a full
relationship with India. It's never been -- it's never materialized. We
think it's materializing now," Burns told reporters here.

He said the question which bothered Washington while initiating the
India-US nuclear deal was whether to continue isolating India on the
nuclear front as it had done in the past three decades or go ahead with the
landmark agreement which will put New Delhi's civilian facilities under
international scanner.

"The question that we had to face and the Congress had to face was
this: We have isolated India for 30 years in the hopes that India would
give up its nuclear weapons. India is certainly not going to do that. So
the question is, do you keep India outside of the proliferation system for
civil purposes and continue to wall it off," Burns said. "

Sad & funny at the same time.

One wonders how many Americans know that they were responsible for the
Indian nuclear program following their refusal to pull a CV back from the
Bay of Bengal & then an implicit nuclear threat during the
"liberation of Bangladesh".

Note how little time passed between the end of that conflict & India
letting of a bang in the desert.


So US foreign policy objectives trump the NPT. Well well quelle surprise.
As such everyone's foreign policy objectives can now trump the NPT
hence....we are gathered here to celebrate the life of the NPT....

Adam

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