not a chance. o'bummer only wants indian troops as cannon fodder.
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From: Ram Narayanan
http://www.the-american-interest.com/article.cfm?piece=803
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From the May - June 2010 issue:
The Return of the Raj
C. Raja Mohan
It is not clear what French President Nicolas Sarkozy had in mind when he invited a contingent of 400 Indian troops to march down the Champs-Élysées for the Bastille Day parade in 2009. But Paris might be on to something that Washington has missed, in spite of its more intensive military engagement with India in recent years. Although Paris does not have the power to engineer international structural changes in New Delhi's favor, it has often been ahead of Washington in strategizing about India. In its effort to build a partnership with India, ongoing since the mid-1990s, France has helped India renegotiate its position in the global nuclear order: It provided diplomatic cover when India defied the world with nuclear tests in May 1998, promoted the idea of changing the global non-proliferation rules to facilitate civilian nuclear cooperation with India, and worked with the Bush Administration to get the international community to endorse India's nuclear exceptionalism.
From: Ram Narayanan
http://www.the-american-interest.com/article.cfm?piece=803
THE AMERICAN INTEREST ONLINE
From the May - June 2010 issue:
The Return of the Raj
C. Raja Mohan
It is not clear what French President Nicolas Sarkozy had in mind when he invited a contingent of 400 Indian troops to march down the Champs-Élysées for the Bastille Day parade in 2009. But Paris might be on to something that Washington has missed, in spite of its more intensive military engagement with India in recent years. Although Paris does not have the power to engineer international structural changes in New Delhi's favor, it has often been ahead of Washington in strategizing about India. In its effort to build a partnership with India, ongoing since the mid-1990s, France has helped India renegotiate its position in the global nuclear order: It provided diplomatic cover when India defied the world with nuclear tests in May 1998, promoted the idea of changing the global non-proliferation rules to facilitate civilian nuclear cooperation with India, and worked with the Bush Administration to get the international community to endorse India's nuclear exceptionalism.
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Raja Mohan can dream and hope. Obama is only concerned with Af-Pak and making an exit from the region. MMS on the other hand can do the dance if Obama gives him another signed copy of his book.
Got to admit, C. Raja Mohan was probably the first strategic analyst who recognised the islamic character of indian state.
And, many of us, scoffed at the very notion at that time.
sansk, not true that the p-sec was the first to recognize the islamic character of the indian state. he remains a p-sec and his analysis is hollow. he is no strategist - he is a journalist.
Arvind,
I am willing to be corrected, if you can provide some proof.
thanks
Sansk
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