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 ... Full Story »

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Walter Cox
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by Walter Cox - Jan. 12, 2009

Until the last line, one might assume Anand Giridharadas might have written this piece from a fawning pro-Bush perspective. "...Bush will be able to claim credit for championing (India)...by squandering much of his own country's carefully accrued sway." So it is a begrudging credit that Giridharadas offers Mr. Bush, and for exactly that reason his analysis become all the more believable.

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