Time For Change

Nuclear nonprolifiation was such a good idea. Why the war criminals in the White House ditched it in the case of India was always a puzzle. Now it's a kick in the face to all responsible people. For all that the occupied White House gave away, they are getting nothing in return.

Energy was what supposedly was gained by making war on Iraq. Now that the U.S. military is destroyed there, it seems a really, really bad deal. Oil is what we ought to be getting away from, but not throwing away, which is what is happening.

A $7 billion gas pipeline that would link Iran and India topped the agenda Tuesday as the Islamic republic's president made his first visit to New Delhi, despite strong U.S. objections to the project.

The trip came as India and the United States are struggling to finalize a landmark nuclear energy deal.

But New Delhi has made it clear that it will look to any source to feed its energy hungry economy, and India saw the brief visit by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as a chance kick-start the long-stalled pipeline project.

Ahmadinejad arrived in the evening and met Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and President Pratibha Patil during his five hours in New Delhi, India's foreign ministry said. His visit was the first by an Iranian leader in five years.

The pipeline needs to run through Pakistan, India's longtime rival. But disagreements between the two over costs, and Indian fears about the pipeline's security have held up the project.

However, the South Asian countries are reportedly close to striking a deal on how much New Delhi should pay Islamabad for the fuel shipped through Pakistani territory.

That would put the project back on track — a prospect that clearly dismays Washington, which has repeatedly pressed India to back its efforts to end Iran's nuclear program.

We have a White House occupied by dysfunctional idiots, and it has given up everything civilized that distinguished this country, and made us proud.

In additiion, what we gave away is getting us nothing.

It's unable to gain anything even by concessions that were strange and disoriented, like our nuclear assistance to India. This ignored the fact that India refused to allow us to inspect their nuclear facilities. The same thing we're demanding from North Korea just is being thrown as a sop to India. Now guess what, we're trying to keep Iran from developing its nuclear industry, and our good buddy is making it more like a possible. It is almost a joke.

This old bad joke can't end too soon.

266 days.