Optimism and empty liberality are George W. Bush's tools of choice when problems poke into his bubble. Problem: record-low popularity and incessant bad press about Iraq, Katrina, Medicare, wiretaps, torture camps, etc., etc. Solution: traipse overseas to put up headlines like those applying the term "historic" to a nuclear "pact" with India. Bush got the headlines--momentarily. But it soon emerged that this deal amounts to little more than a promise to grant India a dispensation from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty that it has refused to join most of the rest of the world in signing. The slapdash giveway threatens to spur a nuclear arms race in Asia.
Meanwhile, the heavy aerial artillery is rolling back to re-pacify fractious Iraq: when you've got 'em in the sights of your AC-130s, their hearts and minds will follow.
(And did Santa remember to bring something special in his pack for Pakistan?)
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