Michael Krepon
Michael Krepon
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I would guess he'd say something like 'You're heading toward an abyss and you need to do something about it,'
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This is an awkward moment, to say the least, for the Bush administration to set a high priority to relax these rules in favor of India.
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New Delhi has adopted an enlightened approach to helping Pakistan during this tragedy, and a backward approach to accepting foreign humanitarian assistance on its side of the Kashmir divide.
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If the prime minister of Pakistan does not test, he is viewed within the country as selling out national security for Uncle Sam and the International Monetary Fund. And if he does test, then the country's economic straits, which are very severe ... will grow worse.
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It's a sweetheart deal for India ... The administration told Congress the agreement would be about the growth of India's electricity and not the growth of Indian bomb making potential and that standard clearly has not been met.
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At a time when Washington is pushing hard to toughen requirements for nuclear commerce to states that have pledged not to acquire nuclear weapons or appear to be seeking them, does it make sense to relax requirements on states that have nuclear weapons?
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This is a very serious competition. If present trends continue, India and Pakistan could very well have greater nuclear capabilities than France and Great Britain, looking down the road.
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Significantly improved ties are being forged without having to relax existing rules to prevent proliferation. So why has the administration proposed to weaken these rules?
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Well one thing I suspect Pakistanis would like to hear is that their textiles are welcome in the United States and that domestic constraints on foreign goods will be relaxed for a partner as Pakistan is a partner of the United States, that's one issue. I think Pakistanis would probably also like to hear that President Bush understands why there is so much anger in the Islamic world, anger about the cavalier and disrespectful approach in many Western capitals toward central tenants of the Islamic faith.