U.S. Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta meets with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in New Delhi, June 5, 2012. DOD photo by Erin A. Kirk-Cuomo
India's Cold Shoulder -- Jonathan E. Hillman, L.A. Times
Courting India as hoped-for 'strategic partner,' the U.S. has sold the nation $8 billion in arms over the last 10 years. In return, U.S. goals have been mostly frustrated while nuclear nonproliferation efforts have been undermined.
There's a party in the Asia Pacific, and the United States wants India to be its date. As U.S. foreign policy "pivots" away from the Middle East and Europe and toward Asia, U.S. officials are doing everything they can to cozy up to the nation that Mark Twain once called "the cradle of the human race."
America's courtship — a bipartisan effort — has included the great-power equivalent of sending flowers (civil nuclear technology underGeorge W. Bush), chocolates (more than $8 billion in U.S. arms during the last decade) and love letters (India is the only state deemed a "strategic partner" in the Pentagon's most recent strategy review).
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WNU Editor: Two other must read commentaries/analysis on U.S. attempts to work with India as a 'strategic partner' are the following ....
Will India Ever Really Be America's Partner? -- Christopher Clary, Foreign Policy
Why India Snubbed U.S. -- Nitin Gokhale, The Diplomat
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