Post by Sailor on Dec 22, 2013 8:00:37 GMT -8
Indo-US ties flourished with Bush Jr, deteriorated under Obama
From an article in:
www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/three-unrelated-forces-caused-escalation-of-us-india-diplomatic-crisis/article1-1164144.aspx
"It was not as if India and the United States did not find themselves caught in immigration and trade squabbles during the administration of George W. Bush.
But because the India relationship was top of the agenda, the White House carefully monitored developments and ensured preemptive fire-fighting.
There were times when the then secretary of state Condoleezza Rice personally checked official statements regarding India.
This was important because the Indian and US political and legal structures are different.
In the US, for example, a government attorney can initiate legal action against a foreigner without State Department clearance. This would be unlikely in India.
Under Barack Obama, however, the Indo-US relationship has been marked by drift. President Obama is known to have taken a dim view of the Indian nuclear liability law, an act he saw as a New Delhi double-cross. His own flirtations with China and withdrawal from Afghanistan has also resurrected a Cold War era distrust of Washington in New Delhi.
The Khobragade incident, and the seeming reluctance of the highest levels of the US system to get involved, is a reminder, as one Washington lobbyist said, “no one owns the India file in the White House.”
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One word comes to mind about how the Administration is handling our affairs with India ... "Incompetence."
In the private sector we fire people for incompetence.
From an article in:
www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/three-unrelated-forces-caused-escalation-of-us-india-diplomatic-crisis/article1-1164144.aspx
"It was not as if India and the United States did not find themselves caught in immigration and trade squabbles during the administration of George W. Bush.
But because the India relationship was top of the agenda, the White House carefully monitored developments and ensured preemptive fire-fighting.
There were times when the then secretary of state Condoleezza Rice personally checked official statements regarding India.
This was important because the Indian and US political and legal structures are different.
In the US, for example, a government attorney can initiate legal action against a foreigner without State Department clearance. This would be unlikely in India.
Under Barack Obama, however, the Indo-US relationship has been marked by drift. President Obama is known to have taken a dim view of the Indian nuclear liability law, an act he saw as a New Delhi double-cross. His own flirtations with China and withdrawal from Afghanistan has also resurrected a Cold War era distrust of Washington in New Delhi.
The Khobragade incident, and the seeming reluctance of the highest levels of the US system to get involved, is a reminder, as one Washington lobbyist said, “no one owns the India file in the White House.”
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One word comes to mind about how the Administration is handling our affairs with India ... "Incompetence."
In the private sector we fire people for incompetence.