India-Pakistan Talks: The Audience Is in Washington
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The talks between high-level Indian and Pakistani diplomats in New Delhi this week on security issues have been mainly make-nice, a well-intentioned effort aimed not so much at domestic constituents but at a faraway player whose beneficence both countries covet.
That player is President Bush. More than any American president, he has engaged Washington more closely with the two nuclear powers, whose mutual enmity has been exceeded only by their rivalry in recent years for America’s affections. The president has played his cards well.
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