The supreme irony is that part of the payback the US expects for this deal is India’s support on the International Atomic Energy Agency Board in denying Iran its “inalienable right” under the NPT to uranium enrichment for peaceful purposes.
The U.S.-India nuclear deal exempts India from the NPT's restrictions and permits it to keep its 50 to 120 nuclear bombs and build more. And the United States will start selling India sensitive nuclear technology.
In September 2008, Foreign Policy magazine editor Moisés Naím wrote: Double standards have always been a part of U.S. foreign policy. He asked readers to tell him which double standard in U.S. foreign policy bothers you the most? Readers’ comments were published in October 2008. Here are some of the comments:
- As long as the United States perceives utility and purpose in maintaining and improving a large nuclear weapons stockpile, then there is no reason in the end why other nations should not also want to do the same.
- North Korea’s and Pakistan’s human rights records are abysmal, but Pakistan is a strategic partner and North Korea is a pariah. International law is important, yet the United States can sign a deal with India, undermining the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
- If America were truly pursuing a policy of bettering the world and serving a practical lesson of justice for the entire world to see, then how can we explain its reluctance in signing the Rome Statute and becoming a state party to the International Criminal Court at The Hague?
- Assertions of support for democracy, human rights, and self-determination for all peoples, while frequently overthrowing democratically elected governments to install right-wing dictators who not only have no respect for those proclaimed values, but actively undermine them, with brutal, even lethal results, to which the United States turns a blind eye and even offers covert support.
- The United States uses lack of religious freedom and democracy to oppose Iran, while supporting the same in Israel. Israel is a selective democracy (if that can be called democracy), where 50 percent of the population under its control does not have any citizenship or rights and 20 percent of the rest are second-class citizens who have to accept the majority’s dominance and superiority.
- The Israeli-Palestinian double standard where Israel can do no wrong. The United States should make a list of all of its vetoes of U.N. sanctions against Israel, and that list alone would convince rational Americans that Arabs do not just “hate our freedoms” but have real grievances the United States refuses to redress and refuses to let anyone else (including the United Nations) redress.
- Palestine/Israel. We would never tolerate being occupied in America; we would never tolerate roads for “whites only”; we would never tolerate a wall on our property that divides our communities and contributes to 70 percent unemployment; we would never tolerate checkpoints; and we would never tolerate collective punishment (I don’t get thrown in jail or missiles fired at my home from helicopters when my neighbor does something wrong). Why is it OK when it comes to the Palestinians?
- Promoting democratic elections, and then ignoring the results if we don’t like them, e.g., Gaza and Hamas.
- Any government in the world that tries to care more for its people than for American business interests finds itself in trouble with the United States. The military or the Central Intelligence Agency, or both, will intervene with disastrous consequences.
- The most disgusting double standard from the USA is the one that says “we’re a Christian nation” and then the world sees the most un-Christian activities conducted under the guise of “democracy” and “liberalism.”
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