All Intensive Purposes

Although the coverage of Bush's trip to India has focused on how Bush left for India without a deal, hoping that an agreement could be reached while he was in the air, Fred Kaplan explains that the President's India policy has entailed "winging it" in much more fundamental respects. In essence, Bush has pledged to India that the United States will break several treaties and U.S. laws, evidently without much thought about whether this will fly. Remarkable, if not surprising.