[mylife]

Nicholas Burns is the hardest working most onder reported on member of this administration. He's doing a great job with India

[Bosco]

There's nothing like having India with their nukes, all ready to shove 'em up China's *ss, also playing them off of kooky Pakistan (which is one shot away from IslamoFascism).

Bush is really stupid, isn't he?

[contemplator]

I was nodding my head up until "

"...Pakistan is a key ally with which we are building ever stronger relations, Burns said..."

Someone forgot to tell the Pakistani people this little tidbit.

[IronJack]

joint projects that included supporting the emergence of democratic institutions in countries around the world; cooperating in science and technology, engineering, agriculture, communications and global climate change; and fighting illicit drug trafficking, trafficking in women and children and global terrorist organizations.

How does India help in any of these "joint" projects? What does India know about promoting stable democratic governments? Their own leaders have been assassinated what, half a dozen times in the last half a century? As far as "co-operating" in the sciences and technology, translate that to mean that we educate Indians here in the States so that they can go back to India and work for a tenth the price of a US worker, while training another battalion of coolies to take over more of our jobs. They teaching US much about agriculture? Are we shipping a lot of illicit drugs to THEM? How about trafficking in human slaves or terror? See a lot of Americans blowing up mosques around the world?

In other words, this is being sold as a symbiosis, but in truth, it only benefits the weaker of the two: India. They're milking our fear of China for everything they can get. And it's working. We're fast turning them into a superpower, but only at our own expense. If China comes in with more money in its wheelbarrow, India will bolt in a Bangalore second. That's the danger you run when you buy your "friends."

[Gengis Khan]

Pakistan is "a key ally with which we are building ever stronger relations," Burns said.

there is "no more important partner in the fight against global terrorism than Pakistan," he said.

the US commitment to Pakistan "is much broader"

"We support President [Pervez] Musharraf's vision of a strong and moderate and prosperous Pakistan," he said.

The United States has "two great friends in the region" in India and Pakistan, Burns said. "One is not more important than the other, just different. The United States seeks a priority relationship with both."

[Gengis Khan]

This is how great a job Nicholas Burns is doing for India.