Congress should approve Indian nuke deal

WORLD NEWS: "Bush to Press Nuclear Deal With India," by Jay Solomon and Niraj Sheth, Wall Street Journal, 8 September 2008, p. A12.

ARTICLE: "After Georgia: After Georgia's defeat, the West struggles to deal with a newly belligerent Russia," The Economist, 23 August 2008, p. 41.

I'm for any strategic deals that bring us closer to India and any deals that make nuclear power more accessible and less frightening. Plus U.S. companies like Boeing and Lockheed need the access to markets.

Plus, with the Bush administration killing the proposed nuclear cooperation deal with Russia, effectively denying its atomic industry billions of dollars of market opportunity, the timing couldn't be better in terms of the message delivered: behave well and this is the kind of rewards you can expect and vice versa.

So I'm all for Congress approving this, and believe Bush and Rice's State Department deserve credit on this one.