Bush Does the Right Thing in India, Media Gets It Wrong

Bush Does the Right Thing in India, Media Gets It Wrong
By Daniel G. Jennings
President George W. Bush is to be commended on his trip to India and his intelligent and far sighted policy towards that country.
As part of his state visit to India Bush effectively tore up the idiotic Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty which states it’s alright for a communist dictatorship like China to have nuclear weapons but wrong for a democratic country like India to build nuclear weapons for its own defense. It is hypocritical for the United States, a democracy which maintains a large nuclear arsenal for its own defense to enforce such a policy. This policy is also a threat to peace countries that lack nuclear weapons are more likely to be victims of aggression while countries (China) with nuclear weapons will be able to get away with aggression.
On a more strategic and sensible level America needs India as a an ally. India is probably the world’s number two military power with a large highly professional Army and a growing Air Force and Navy. Unlike the tired old nations of Europe India has real military power, hundreds of thousands of highly trained professional soldiers whose help we may soon need on the battlefields of the Middle East.
India is a democracy and a majority Hindu country so it is America’s natural ally in the war against Islamic Terror. India’s Hindus suffered centuries of oppression, exploitation and terror at the hands of Islamic conquerors such as the Moguls and Afghans. More recently Al Qaeda has backed terrorists battling Indian troops in Kashmir and terrorists who attacked India’s parliament building in New Delhi. America will need India’s help and soon, just as India will need America’s help.
Bush’s deal makes environmental sense too, by transferring American nuclear power plant technology to India. Bush is ensuring that India will be burning less fossil fuels and generating less greenhouse gases. This will do more to stop global warming than the moronic Kyoto Treaty which does nothing to curb green house gases.
The media of course doesn’t see any of this. TV reports about Bush’s India trip have been full of pictures of Islamic mobs burning Bush’s picture and screaming death to America. These mobs represent a minority in India and don’t reflect India’s population which is 80.5 percent Hindu according to the CIA World Fact Book found online at www.cia.gov. Unfortunately Americans watching the TV reports will get the simple minded message the media elite wants them to: they hate us over there because of Bush’s policy.
Imagine what would happen if on Bush’s next state trip to France the only pictures the media showed were leftists and Muslims burning American flags. That would make France look like a nation of anti-American bigots but since France is a “white” European nation the media likes, it would be presented in a positive light. Even though France probably has less than a tenth of the military power of India, France is presented as the ally we need while India is ignored.
Is this racism I don’t know? One thing is very clear; however, President Bush’s grasp of the global reality and the policies America needs to purse is far better than that of the media’s. Hopefully the voters and Congress will continue to see through the media deceptions and back our President’s sensible policy towards India.