In improving ties with India, Bush can claim a foreign policy success
Manmohan Singh leads the largest democracy on Earth. But the Indian prime minister is gentle of manner and speaks in whispers. One struggles to imagine him professing love without shyness to his own wife. And so it meant something when he recently laid the L-word on a little-loved man: George W. Bush.
"This may be my last visit to you during your presidency," Singh told the U.S. president in Washington in September, "and let me say, thank you very ...
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With Bush having demonized all muslims, India would provide a counter force to his demons. As a right wing military-minded pro-nuke president, Bush would naturally seem inclined to ally with an Indian government that is largely right wing and militaristic and with a reckless love of nuclear weapons.