Bush's Indian 'Coup' Leaves Adversaries Scrambling
Was Bush's trip as significant as Nixon's trip to China in 1973? The ramifications are so dramatic, according to this analysis from Egypt's Sout Al Oma Al Arabia newspaper, that Washington's strategic adversaries, including China, Iran and Russia, will have to scramble to pick up the pieces.
By Saad Mehio
Translated By Nicolas Dagher
March 5, 2006
Original
Article (Arabic) 
There are
two historic coups in the nuclear-commercial deal between India and the United
States. The first has a powerful smell of gas and oil and the second is related
to the Great Chess Game playing out in Eurasia.
The first
coup is plain to see, and has a very specific goal: America is worried that
India itself is worried about its energy security and its increasing energy consumption.
The U.S. wants to nudge India away from the oil fields and closer to the atom
fields. As President Bush and Secretary Rice said, "We will reduce Indian
demand for fossil fuels, which will reduce prices and help the American
consumer."
But what
Bush and Rice did not say, was that the nuclear deal relieves America of
another foreign policy nightmare: ambitious Indian plans to build a network of
Asian oil and gas pipelines stretching from Ukraine to Japan. The network's
starting point would be a pipeline stretching from Iran to India through
Pakistan.
Why is
this plan a nightmare for Washington? Simply because it would weaken its own plan to
impose hegemony over all of the Middle East and Central Asia, weakens
its grip of Iran's neck, and prevents the emergence of an oil alliance outside
of its control.
Now that
India is under American nuclear auspices, New Delhi will not only give up its oil-related
ambitions, but will be caught in the American spider web, because of its
dependence on U.S. nuclear technology. Therefore, America will hit 10 Indian
birds with one stone.
The
second coup has to do with the Great Chess Game, the balance of power and
strategic interests.
President Nixon Meets China's Communist Party Leader
Mao Tse-Tung in Beijing on February 29, 1972. above);
President Bush and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh
in Washington, Last Year. (below).
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History
will note that the George W. Bush-Manohan Singh deal
of March 2, 2006, will have the same historic consequences as the deal between Richard
Nixon and Mao Tse Toung in
1973. As the 1973 deal proved the undoing of major international alliances by pushing
China away from the Soviet Union and dividing the Communist world, this new
deal places India in opposition to China, again dividing the Asian world into
two.
Zbigniew Brzezinski:
Keep 'Barbarians'
Divided.
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Condoleezza
Rice described this development as an expression of "a balance of powers based on Freedom."
But Zbigniew Brzezinski had
a more realistic and less demagogic description. In his latest book, "The
Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives,"[
excerpts] he said that the three requirements for American
Strategy are:
1) To prevent
alliances and keep all satellite countries needing American security support.
2) Keep the
burdens that are placed on these satellite countries low.
3) Prevent
"the barbarians" from "uniting."
The
Indo-American nuclear deal accomplished two of those requirements: it prevented
a new oil alliance, and disturbed the efforts of the "barbarian" countries
(read: India, Russia, and China) from uniting against the power of the American
empire.
Surely,
it is a historic coup for American diplomacy, surpassed only by the other coup,
related to oil and energy. The Chinese will no doubt quickly come to realize
the new situation and will react accordingly (along the line of famed Chinese
wisdom). But will those concerned in Iran do the same? Don't ask President Ahmadinajad!
VIDEO FROM SAUDI ARABI: 'AMERICANS SMARTER THAN THE DANES'
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"the Americans did worse things than the Danish, but they were smarter. The British were also smarter. The Americans degraded the Holy Koran, the word of God."
Saudi Cleric Muhsen Al-'Awaji:
[NEWS PHOTOS: Bush in India].
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