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 | Obama’s insistence on NPT is wrong Our Correspondent India has done well to promptly and categorically reject the United Nations Security Council’s call for the signing of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). The new impetus for the NPT has come from US President Barack Obama, who has led the UNSC to insist that all countries must sign it. The UN Security Council Resolution 1887, authored by Obama, was unanimously cleared. Experts believe that the resolution especially targets, among others, India and Pakistan. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s Special Envoy on climate change Shyam Saran has reiterated India’s stand that it does not intend to be a party to the NPT as a non-nuclear weapon state: “We are committed to nuclear disarmament and at the same time we are also committed to unilateral moratorium on nuclear tests.” The Indian position is that the NPT is discriminatory and perpetuates the monopoly of certain nuclear powers. It is time India calibrated its stand to a more convincing and forceful reasoning; it should oppose the NPT for its tacit acceptance of one of the contemporary’s world biggest afflictions—moral equivalence. Invariably leading to equivocation and egregious behavior, moral equivalence is the attitude which blurs the distinction between various acts; it tends to eliminate ethics from all walks of life; the arsonist and the firefighter are judged by the same yardstick. The Obama presidency has given a huge stimulus to moral equivalence in geopolitics. What NPT does is bracket India with rogue states like Pakistan; a more irrational, outrageous and dangerous bracketing is difficult to imagine. For while India is a peaceful democracy with absolutely no taint of nuclear or missile proliferation, Pakistan is a bigoted state which has broken every possible international norm pertaining to proliferation; the recent expose by AQ Khan has once again proved, if proof was required, that Islamabad was hand in glove with all his nuclear smuggling. Obama not only equates a peace-loving nation with a terror-exporting country, he also keeps fattening the latter, as evident from the tripling of aid to Pakistan. Obama’s special envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan, Richard Holbrooke, has termed the Senate’s unanimous vote on Kerry-Luger Bill “a very important step forward” for US-Pakistan ties. “For the first time in modern era the US congress has made a multi-year commitment to Pakistan,” he said. It is distressing to see that the world’s most powerful country, which champions the cause of freedom all over the globe, is so keen to provide military and non-military assistance to a nation which has promoted terror with a crusading zeal. There is something grossly wrong, if not exactly sinister, in Obama’s policy framework, which persistently penalizes decent, civilized countries and rewards notorious proliferators like Pakistan, Iran and North Korea. Posted on : 9/30/2009 Mail this article to your friend |