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Re: Subtalk politics: at a glance (NEW: Dubya deal w/ India) |
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Posted by New Brunswick Station on Thu Mar 2 18:30:39 2006, in response to Re: Subtalk politics: at a glance (NEW: Dubya deal w/ India), posted by Orange Blossom Special on Thu Mar 2 17:58:23 2006. Your decision is really for or against Bush.Clinton and earlier, India was our Ally, Pakistan was someone to be wary of. Bush and later, India can't even be located on the map or spelled, but amazingly a fanatical country headed by a non-democratic coup is now our best ally, with the same access to the US as NATO. I like some of Bush's policies but not others. He can be incredibly boneheaded at times (remember Harriet Miers?), but he shows signs of intelligence at others (at least getting around to blabbering about reducing oil dependence, something that came to me as something he was kinda forced to do, and the idea of getting back to India). Maybe he's still a "pushover" at heart. Question: since when was Pakistan "our best ally"? I can name countries friendlier with America than Pakistan is (well, over a period of the past several years): Israel (which has a longterm alliance with US) Canada (of course) and Mexico (which got friendlier after the Fox election, I think) Japan and South Korea (thank you, Macarthur and Co. - note: there has been an economic rivalry going on between America and the Asians, but this mostly plays out in the realm of business politics, rather than military politics, and so far seems to be friendly, some grousing over the Second World War and its causes notwithstanding.) Great Britain (I'll bet speaking of English has something to do with this) Several small Caribbean countries (dependent on US economy in large measure, thanks to floating oceangoing palaces and relatives sending money "back home") Australia and New Zealand (English-speaking) |
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