India's claim to be a leader or at least an upstanding upholder of the nonproliferation system would be invalidated by looking the other way in the face of Iran's clear violations.
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This deal not only lets India amass as many nuclear weapons as it wants, it looks like we made no effort to try to curtail them.
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We mishandled the Iran connection from the beginning and there has been a screw-up. We have made it harder for the Indians.
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The Bush administration has had difficulty mustering support for the India deal. The U. S. gave everything India wanted and got little in return, ... They framed the deal as necessary to cement a strategic partnership with India, and then this partner turns around and sides with Iran. That's not very strategic.
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The strategic challenge the Bush administration faced was to convince the rest of the world that Iran is more dangerous than the United States.
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