ARTICLE: U.S. and India Finalize Controversial Nuclear Trade Pact, By Robin Wright and Emily Wax, Washington Post, July 28, 2007; Page A14

The thing about this is, Russia's going to want the same package on Iran.

I mean, India's a country that's blustered quite ominously about nuking Pakistan and yet we trust them in this way. India doesn't sign the NNPT and develops weapons and we trust them.

Fine by me, as I see India as a key future ally.

Then again, neither Pakistan nor Israel signs NNPT and both develop weapons (Israel has a couple hundred) and they're both trusted friends.

So Moscow and Beijing are going to argue similarly for Tehran--just watch.

None of that will change the minds of Israel's staunch supporters in the U.S., like new Giuliani top-adviser and full-time advocate for war with Iran, Norm Podhoretz, so expect them to press the case for strikes like none of this exposes us to charges of hypocrisy--much less being pawns of regional powers Israel and the House of Saud.

Isn't it great to live in the age of Boomers, where every other government (don't forget all the terror nets) except our own seems to run our foreign policy? Don't your knees get tired from all the jerking?

Wouldn't it be nice to run toward a future of our own creating instead of constantly running away from the past?

Think the Boomers will get any better as old men and women?

Thanks to Vonne Meussling-Barnett for sending this.