Indo-US nuclear deal and us

After toying around with a few non-controversial ideas in the last 2 posts, I felt it was time to write about something which is causing a lot of hullabaloo in India's political and scientific circles : the Indo-US nuclear deal (the Congress prefers to call it the Civil Nuclear Co-operation Agreement).

First let us see what the deal is all about. The agreement was formulated with the right intentions in mind...to offset a possible power shortage that India might face in the coming years, and to achieve this end an agreement was signed with the US, for the import of newer nuclear technologies and the necessary fuel.

So why should a seemingly innocuous deal create such a furore in the political circles?? Herein comes the punch. There is a clause in the agreement that grants the President of the United States to call off the agreement at his/her wish (I specifically included 'her' here since Americans are willing to let a lady lead them and is quite possible in the near future).

So why should India feel threatened by the clause...it's not as if India abets terrorism to get in the bad books of the top brass of US administration, in fact India feels as much against terrorism as the US, if not more. THEN WHY?

The answer lies with the non-alignment as India's foreign policy, so India has an equally good relation with all nations at least on the diplomatic front. But not America. It has a whole host of countries ready to vote against any motion US wants to move on the world stage. And India has a cordial relation with these countries as well, and this will soon undermine the relative supremacy that US possesses at the world stage and this threatens the US.

Any issue has its own set of pros and cons and only if the pros outweigh the cons should the choice be made in its favor...let's hope the political and adminstrative bigwigs in our country make the right call...