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TUNKU VARADARAJAN: Obama?s India Problem. ?Two years after Bush?s departure from the White House?

By Glenn Reynolds

TUNKU VARADARAJAN: Obama’s India Problem. “Two years after Bush?s departure from the White House, India is still Bush Country?a giant (if foreign) Red State, to use the American political taxonomy. By that I mean that the political establishment and much of the non-leftist intelligentsiaa still looks back with dewy-eyed fondness to the time when India?s relations with the United States flowered extravagantly under Bush. It wasn?t just a matter of securing a mold-breaking nuclear deal with Washington; it was a case of India dealing, for the first time in the uneven history of its relations with the United States, with an American president who saw India as a partner-in-civilization. . . . Obama has let the alliance with India wither on the vine. This has frustrated India deeply, especially as a perception came to grip New Delhi that some of Obama?s neglect was payback to India for its closeness to his predecessor.”

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on November 05, 2010 (boomark / email).