Shame El-Sheikh ; the Prime Minister's Total Surrender in Sharm El-Sheikh or Allowing Washington to Be the Arbiter of India's Nuclear Independence Shows the Extent to Which the Government Will Compromise On National Interest.

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Maybe the text that has brought India to its now-familiar national position-prostration-at Sharm el-Sheikh has something to do with the context, geographical as well as historical. The city on the Red Sea, any decent tourist guide on Egypt will tell you, is the ideal destination for divers and windsurfers.

The worthies who assembled at the resort in the Sinai Peninsula may not be known for their deep sea diving skills, but as leaders of the Non-Aligned Movement-Ah, NAM, the grossest irrelevancy in geopolitics-they are masters in the political equivalent of windsurfing.

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Shame El-Sheikh ; the Prime Minister's Total Surrender in Sharm El-Sheikh or Allowing Washington to Be the Arbiter of India's Nuclear Independence Shows the Extent to Which the Government Will Compromise On National Interest.

Ideally, the prime minister of 21st century India should not have been there at all, for NAM is a bad joke. The vintage postcolonial romance of Nehru, Tito and Nasser outlived its use long ago, if it ever had any use. Today, the original catchwords like imperialism and colonialism, or...

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