Indo US Anti Terror War games in Uttarakhand, Military Ties Grows daring Left
US turns real, accepts the argumentative Indian
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Indicating the government's resolve not to succumb to the Left's demand to scale down military ties with the US, defence minister A K Antony on Thursday declared "military interaction with US will continue" in the future. The Left may have forced the UPA government to put the civil nuclear deal on the backburner but there are simply no full-stops as far as the expanding Indo-US military ties are concerned.
Five of the 17 nuclear power plants in the country had been shut down and the remaining are operating at an average of less than 50 per cent capacity for want of fuel, a top official of the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited said.
Two units at Narora atomic power plant in Uttar Pradesh are shut down for annual maintenance work while the newly commissioned Kaiga unit 3 in Karnataka and one unit of Kalpakkam atomic power plant near Chennai are facing closure for want of fuel, Chairman and Managing Director of NPCIL S K Jain said.
Two units of Rajasthan Atomic Power plants are shut down as feeder pipe replacement is taking place, Jain said, adding all these may get started immediately as there was a mismatch of uranium fuel in the country.
Rest of the 12 plants which had an established 95 per cent capacity are now running between 50-70 per cent making the average capacity of nuclear power production in the country less than 50 per cent, he said.
The Nuclear Fuel Complex Chief Executive R N Jairaj said his company was able to make use of only 30 per cent of the total capacity and is being under-utilised due to the "mismatch" of fuel.
The fuel "mismatch" situation has started affecting the performance of the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL).
Currently operating nuclear power stations with a capacity of around 4,000 MWe, NPCIL has been forced to slash power production levels.
UPA-Left Committee report after Diwali: Yechury
Bangalore, Oct 21: The UPA-Left Committee is expected to come out with its findings on the Indo-US nuclear deal after Diwali, CPI(M) Politburo member Sitaram Yechury said here today. However, Yechury made it clear that consensus on the issue was not possible unless the Left parties` concerns were met.
"May be after Diwali...Sometime," Yechury told reporters when asked when the committee was expected to come out with its report.
He also said that the meeting of the committee slated for tomorrow will not be the last one.
"Tomorrow`s meeting may not be the last meeting. There may be more meetings in the future. Till the meetings are over and till our concerns are taken on board, we expect the Government not to proceed (in operationalising the deal)".
The CPI(M) leader said the Left parties are attending tomorrow`s meeting with the understanding that the findings of the committee will be taken into account before the Government proceeds to operationalise the 123 agreement.
According to him, the Left parties expect the Government to respond to issues raised by them regarding impact of the deal on India`s foreign policy and security concerns, at the meeting.
"In tomorrow`s meeting, we will come to know...How the Government wishes to proceed and on that basis, we will take our future decisions," Yechury said.
On nuclear deal
On Prime Minister Manmohan Singh`s statement that the process of evolving a meaningful consensus on the issue was on, Yechury said: "let`s see what they say tomorrow. We have not heard anything official from them as yet. Unless our concerns were met, we don`t think consensus would be possible."
He also said the left parties have asked the UPA government to put the deal on hold till the new administration takes over in the US.
"It`s an international norm that whenever there is an anticipated change in government, you don`t enter into international treaties," he said adding, it was clear that there would be a change in administration in the US next year, with President George W Bush completing his eight-year term.
"We are saying...Wait. What`s the hurry. You (UPA) wait till the new administration in the US comes. Let`s see what`s their attitude towards the whole thing; then you proceed," Yechury stated.
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With the Leftist allies blocking the nuclear deal and a vigorous argument raging in the country on this issue, the US has turned real and is bracing itself for a "healthy but sometimes argumentative friendship with India". Zeenews reports.
"First, it is critical that that Americans consider their future with India realistically, guarding itself against undue optimism and excessive expectations," says US Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Nicholas Burns in an article in Foreign Affairs, the influential magazine which is a must-read for Washington's political and strategic elite.
"Differing histories, cultures and geographies will make for a healthy but sometimes argumentative friendship," writes Burns, while acknowledging that despite the enormous promise "considerable obstacles" remain in the way of India and the US forging "a truly effective global partnership".
"For its part, the US must adjust to a friendship with India that will feature a wider margin of disagreement than we are accustomed to - but a friendship in which the extra effort will be made up for by rich long-term rewards," he said while alluding to differences between India and the US on Myanmar and Iran.
In the article entitled "America's Strategic Opportunity with India", Burns provides a historic overview of bilateral ties from the time of missed opportunities during the Cold War era to a radically changed global landscape in the 21st century "when the basic interests of India and the US - the world's largest democracy and the world's oldest - increasingly converged".
Burns, the US chief interlocutor on the path-breaking nuclear deal that promises to reopen doors of global nuclear commerce for India, makes an eloquent case for "a democratically and increasingly power India" shaping the world order, along with the US, based on shared interests and values.
"As we Americans consider our future role in the world, the rise of a democratic and increasingly powerful India represents a singularly positive opportunity to advance our global interests," writes Burns.
"There is a tremendous strategic upside to our growing engagement with India. That is why building a close US-India partnership should be one of the US' highest priorities for the future. It is a unique opportunity with real promise for the global balance of power," say Burns.
India's quest for precious uranium has now turned towards exploration of the mineral deposits deep inside the earth.
The Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) has asked scientists at the Hyderabad-based National Geophysical Research Institute (NGRI) to look for deep-seated uranium deposits across the country.
India has an estimated 1.07 lakh tonnes of identified raw uranium reserves in the form of uranium oxides or yellow cake. These reserves are not enough to run the country's nuclear plants most of which are producing power much below their capacity.
"We have been asked by the DAE to conduct an airborne gamma ray spectrometry of several parts of the country to look for concealed uranium deposits," V P Dimri, Director NGRI told PTI.
Such a survey will help scientists to locate uranium deposits situated below the rocky terrain across the country.
The Atomic Minerals Department (AMD) of the DAE, tasked with the responsibility of the exploring radioactive minerals, has identified several areas where conditions are favourable for hosting of uranium deposits.
These geological terrains include remote and hilly areas of the north east, peneplain areas of the peninsula with varying density of forest cover, cultivation and habitation, AMD officials said.
"We have won the contract for carrying out the survey over 1.25 lakh line kilometers of area," Dimri said adding that the NGRI will complete the project over a period of five years.
Sending out a powerful message that politics should not be mixed with the armed forces, the Indian military is set to intensify its engagement with its foreign counterparts despite objections of the Left parties that support the government. On Sunday, Indian and US Special Forces will begin two weeks long anti-terror war games at Chaubatia in Uttarkhand. The Indian Air Force (IAF) also hopes to participate in the prestigious Red Flag exercise at the Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada next year.Menawhile,Washington: The United States says it's "still very supportive" of its civilian nuclear deal with India, stalled by opposition from the Indian coalition government's leftist supporters, but would not jump into the debate over it.
"We continue to support the agreement and would like to move forward with it," State Department spokesperson Sean McCormack told reporters Thursday when asked if the deal was dead with the problems it faced in New Delhi.
"I'm not going to make any predictions. We continue to support it, though," he said in response to another question if he was hopeful that it might go through by early next year as suggested by another US official.Noting that there were "a lot of intensive domestic political discussions in India," McCormack said: "The Indian government and the Indian political system will play out those discussions. It's not something that we're going to directly participate in.
"We are still very supportive of the deal. We still would like to see it move forward, but the Indian government and the political system is engaged in a debate and we'll see what the outcome of that debate is."
Rebuffing US insistence on India moving fast on the nuclear deal, the CPI-M on Thursday said setting of such deadlines was an "insult" to Indian democracy.
"The democratic processes of any country cannot be influenced by external pressures and by the needs of another country," CPI-M politburo member Sitaram Yechury wrote in an editorial in the forthcoming issue of party organ `people`s democracy`.
"The setting up of such deadlines is in itself an insult to Indian democracy," he said.
Yechury`s remarks was in response to Tuesday`s statement by US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Nicholas Burns in New York that India needs to move fast on the deal and hoped it would take a "positive decision".
Burns said India has to move fast because the Bush administration would like to send the final legislation sealing the deal to the Congress by the year end.
He had also stated that it was not a good idea to send a major legislation to the congress in spring or summer of an election year.
The deal, he said, was reached after tough negotiations and has bipartisan support in the congress.
Repeatedly stressing that he does not want to interject himself in the political debate now going on among the members of the "rather large" ruling coalition in India, the US official noted that the recent statement by External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee did not rule out the deal.
New Delhi has to reach an agreement with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on safeguards and then secure the approval from the nuclear suppliers group (NSG) to permit nuclear commerce with India.
"No democracy can be complete until everybody, including the Muslims, enjoy equal rights," Yechury said.
"If India is to emerge vibrant, our growth must be inclusive and the widening gap between shining India and suffering India should be narrowed down. For that the overall welfare of the minorities should be ensured," he said.
Apart from reservation, Yechury said the Left was demanding soft loans to Muslims for the purpose of self-employment.
"It is the Muslims who are keeping alive the traditional artisan works which requires financial assistance," he said.
While it required a consensus among political parties to bring in a constitutional amendment to ensure reservation for Muslims, he said communal forces opposing it should be isolated to change the political correlation.
CPI(M) state secretary Pinarayi Vijayan said the Sachar Committee report was prepared based on statistics and not on presumptions.
It was unfortunate that the Centre was not so serious in implementing the report even one year after it was placed in parliament, he said, adding 15 per cent of the total budget allocation should be spent for the welfare of the Muslims.
Stating that Kerala had already put into action some of the recommendations made in the report, Vijayan said a 11-member committee had been formed to further study the matter.
Another US official said that Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson would stress the importance of the nuclear deal during his India visit next week.Though Paulson's trip was not designed for any discussions on the nuclear deal, he would, as a senior US government official, certainly stress its enormous importance and the benefits it would bring to the two countries, Under Secretary of Treasury for International Affairs David McCormick said.Hoping that India would not move forward with the Iran-Pakistan-India gas pipeline, he suggested that India's quest for energy security would be better achieved by proceeding with the nuclear deal. Paulson himself Wednesday described the historic agreement on civilian nuclear cooperation as "an important part of the US-India relationship" and said the US "remains committed to this agreement."
"It is beneficial to both countries. India is one of the world's largest and most peaceful states with advanced nuclear technologies, and has been isolated from the rest of the world on nuclear issues.
"This agreement will bring India into the nuclear non-proliferation mainstream, providing access to the technology which can help it reach its economic and environmental objectives."
Moving forward with the civilian nuclear agreement is one part of the solution to bringing about economic growth with environmental responsibility, he told the Council on Foreign Relations .
SILICON VALLEY: Harping on a year-end deadline for the nuclear deal with India, the US has said it will be good to get it voted in the Congress by coming January. US Under Secretary for Political Affairs Nicholas Burns also expressed the hope that the deal was not dead in India but only postponed.
"One message that the US is articulating very clearly to India was that this is an opportunity that doesn't come around often. They ought to take that opportunity," he said.
"We don't have (it) forever. The reality of our politics is that Congress made a huge effort to pass the necessary law in the United States. The Congress has to have one more vote that has to be taken. We certainly don't want to go too deep in 2008," he told National Public Radio.
When asked if January is important because otherwise in an election year not much would get done, Burns said it would be a smart move to get the deal back to the Congress when they have time to look at it.
"I think the reality is that an agreement like this, which has been controversial in our country but which has current Congressional support, it is smart to get it back to the Congress in a time when they will have the time to look at it and not to get it too deep into our election year," he said.
Presidential elections are scheduled to be held in the US in November next year.
Asked whether it was frustrating as India seems close to rejecting the deal, Burns said "we hope they are not close to rejecting it. We don't think the deal is dead, but the deal has been postponed".
An early winter session and a "nuclear" discussion on the India-US 123 agreement seems to be on the cards with BJP making it clear that it had no objections to the Parliament meeting ahead of schedule. The party indicated it would not resort to stalling tactics as it had in the Monsoon sitting of the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha.
While BJP supported the move to advance the winter session, the government said it would firm up the dates for the session on Friday when the Cabinet Committee on Political Affairs is likely to meet.
During the monsoon session, BJP had blocked proceedings over its demand that the deal be examined by a joint parliamentary committee.
Leader of Opposition, L K Advani, told TOI that he had not been approached as yet by the government over bringing forward the winter session, but did not feel that his party would have any reservations over such a decision. Some BJP leaders were in touch with the government's managers on the issue and would brief the party about any proposals on advancing the session.
"I dont think so," Advani said when asked whether BJP would continue with blockading proceedings in the two Houses. He said "we will participate in any debate on the nuclear deal" and that BJP was fully prepared to make its points of view in Parliament.
The party seems prepared for attacks from the Left criticising BJP on the grounds that NDA had laid the first foundation of the India-US deal.
The BJP's preparedness to revise its tactics means that Congress will have to face an array of opponents. Even though the Left will take a few mandatory swipes at BJP, its fire will be concentrated on government and possibly Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. This will make the Congress versus Left showdown a central part of the parliamentary debate on the nuclear deal.
With Left finetuning its strategy with UNPA parties like Samajwadi Party and Telugu Desam Party, Congress may find itself waging a lone battle. But Congress, too, is hopeful that it will be able to score a few points in the debate as it feels that the positives of the deal have indeed struck a chord with "middle India" and this needs to be highlighted. Congress also plans to counter criticism that operationalising the deal would barter India's strategic options.
Parties like SP are keen to be part of any move which will embarrass the government and are not likely to fight shy of playing to their Muslim voters by targetting Congress for being a "friend of Bush". While UPA members will stand by Congress in the debate and will argue that the deal with US does not compromise India's nuclear weapons programme and is a boost for economic growth, they may lack the zeal and conviction of true converts. This is because they have already made it apparent that they are not prepared to back the deal to the point where a break with the Left will force polls.
On Monday, British army chief General Richard Dannatt will arrive here Monday for a series of meetings aimed at ramping up defence ties between the two countries.
Also on Monday, Defence Secretary Vijay Singh will inaugurate the 10th meeting of the India-France High Committee on Defence Cooperation.
The Left parties have been vociferously protesting the growing contacts between the Indian and US militaries, but Defence Minister A K Antony has repeatedly stressed that these would continue.
"Exercises with foreign militaries are meant to upgrade skills and familiarise (our forces) with the latest hi-tech weapons," Antony said on Thursday on the sidelines of the Naval Commanders' Conference here.
The India-US drill, codenamed Yudh Abhyas 07-02, takes off from where a similar exercise in Alaska left off last month. Some 100 Indian Army soldiers participated in those manoeuvres.
The Alaska drill was conducted in an 'Iraq-like' environment with Indian and US troops staging a mock attack on an 'Iraqi village' controlled by an insurgent group and simulating roadside bombings and suicide attacks.
"The US philosophy is of shock and awe with saturation bombing of an area before the soldiers go in. This, however, does not always work as the Americans are learning in Iraq as they fight an urban insurgency," an official said.
"We, however, still go by the concept of boots on the ground and there is much we can teach the Americans about counter-insurgency operations," the official added.
Dannatt's visit follows a 25-day war game conducted by India's Special Forces and the Royal Marines at a high altitude location in Ladakh to simulate raids against terrorists holed up in mountain hideouts.
Dannatt will also discuss the possibilities of increasing India-British joint drills.
The Indian military has been engaged in a series of exercises with its foreign counterparts this year.
In September, Malabar-2007 - the biggest war game so far in the Bay of Bengal - saw the participation of 23 ships, including three aircraft carries, from the navies of India, the US, Australia, Japan and Singapore.
In February-March, a five-vessel flotilla of the Indian Navy embarked on an extended deployment to southeast and east Asia, during which it conducted drills with the navies of Russia, China, Japan, the Philippines and Singapore.
This apart, the Indian and Russian Special Forces in September participated in a 10-day counter-insurgency drill.
India also participated in the Shangri La Dialogue regional security grouping in Singapore with Defence Minister Antony addressing the delegates on New Delhi's perception of the regional and global security scenario.
Indian-Americans to urge BJP, Left accept N-deal
Washington: Concerned over the opposition of civilian nuclear deal in India, a group of Indian-American community leaders are planning to travel to New Delhi to convince the BJP and the Left parties to accept the deal as it was in the best interests of the two countries.
"Many of us are planning a trip to New Delhi in November to meet leaders like Atal Bihari Vajpai, L K Advani, Brajesh Mishra, Prakash Karat and others to exchange ideas," Chairman of the Dallas based US-India Forum, Ashok Mago said.
The comments of former national security advisor, Brajesh Mishra, has ignited a new ray of hope among the supporters of Indo-US civil nuclear agreement, he said referring to Mishra's recent interview in which he had asked the leader to go ahead with the deal saying "Clinton administration would not have offered such a deal."
The Indian-American community leaders would make the leaders, opposing the deal, aware about how difficult it was to get the bill passed and that the similar opportunity may not be there in the foreseeable future, he said.
"We love the country of our birth, but I doubt if Indian-Americans have the stamina to do it all over again. We would ask BJP leadership that there would never be a better opportunity to show that you care more for the betterment of common people than party politics and are willing and ready support the government on this issue. Such a step will enhance creditability not only among the masses in India but all over the world," Mago said.
Mago and his organisation were instrumental in lining up the large Texas Delegation in the House of Representatives and the Senate to vote for the Hyde Act that was passed by the Congress late last year.
The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) Friday asked Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's government to break its silence and speak out against the US' "unilateral" economic sanction against Iran.
"These unilateral sanctions should not find acceptance in the international community. The UPA government must break its silence and speak out against the US stance towards Iran," the CPI-M politburo said in a statement here.
Expressing its strong opposition to the harsh sanctions imposed on Tehran, the communist party said: "The government of India should clearly state that such sanctions will not be applied by India.
"This is necessary as in the recent period the United States has sought to get Indian companies to fall in line to comply with its sanctions and prohibition of trade and economic ties with Iran."
The party said the sanctions were aimed at Iran's financial system and economy. "These come in the wake of the continuing threats to resort to military action against Iran."
The US has announced sweeping economic sanctions against Iran designed to punish the regime for its nuclear programme and alleged support for terrorists. The measures are the harshest imposed on Tehran since 1979, and reportedly mark a new phase in the international campaign against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's government.
India-Germany to unveil 'Vision Statement'
New Delhi : India and Germany will come out with a 'Vision Statement' during Chancellor Angela Merkel's visit to the country next week as the two countries seek to build strategic relations well beyond trade and investment.German Ambassador to India Bernd Mutzelburg said at a CII seminar that Merkel's visit would provide an impetus to Indo-German partnership in areas of strategic importance and economy.
German Chancellor is arriving on October 29 for a six-day visit, which includes her three-day stay in Mumbai.
Mutzelburg agreed with an observation that Germany should make its visa regime flexible to attract Indian students and researchers. He said Germany and India can work together towards a successful outcome of the Doha Round of WTO talks.
The cooperation will be expanded through a comprehensive India-European Union trade and investment agreement which is under negotiations, he said.
The present level of bilateral trade of 14 billion dollar is expected to double in five years, a recent KPMG report had said.
Besides engineering, automobile, chemicals and pharmaceuticals, emerging areas of cooperation include infrastructure, construction, logistics, transportation, renewable energy, nano-technology, biotechnology, retail, financial services and defence production, the report said.
Book by PM's daughter exposes torture in US jails
Friday, 26 October , 2007, 03:10
New York: In a strong indictment of the Bush administration's treatment of detainees in its war on terror, a book co-authored by Amrit Singh, the US-based lawyer daughter of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, asserts that the torture took place because of policy not in spite of it.
The book Administration of Torture: A Documentary Record from Washington to Abu Ghraib and Beyond written by Amrit Singh and Jameel Jaffer, gives a powerful account of the torture of detainees in the prisons outside the US, including the infamous Abu Ghraib jail in Iraq, which, it says, resulted from decisions made by military and civilian officials.
'The maltreatment of prisoners resulted in large part from decisions made by senior officials, both military and civilian,' it says, adding that they were reaffirmed repeatedly despite complaints from law enforcement and military personnel that they were illegal and ineffective.
The maltreatment, according to the book, continued even after countless prisoners were abused, tortured or killed in custody.
The book is based on the documents obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union under Freedom of Information act.
'The documents show that senior officials endorsed abuse, sometimes by encouraging as a matter of policy, sometimes by tolerating it and sometime by expressly authorising it,' the authors write.
The documents given in the book show then Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld was 'personally involved' in overseeing the interrogation of Mohammed al-Qahtani, a Guantanamo prisoner who was stripped naked, paraded in front of female interrogators and led around on a leash.
While Rumsfeld did not himself authorise those specific methods, he failed to place a 'throttle' over abusive 'applications' of the 'broad techniques' that he did authorise and that interrogators who used abusive 'SERE' (Survival, Evasion, Resistance, Escape) methods at Guantanamo did so because the Pentagon had endorsed those methods and required interrogators to be trained in the use of those methods, the documents show.
They also show that FBI personnel, who complained of abuse at Guantanamo, were complaining of abuse that had been authorised by the Defence Department chain of command.
Some the Abu Ghraib photos showed prisoners being subjected to the very same interrogation methods that Rumsfeld had endorsed for use at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.
'It is imperative that senior officials who authorised, endorsed, or tolerated the abuse and torture of prisoners be held accountable, not only as a matter of elemental justice, but to ensure that the same crimes are not perpetrated again,' Amrit Singh and Jaffer write.
When the American media published photographs of US soldiers abusing prisoners at Abu Ghraib, the Bush administration assured the world that the abuse was isolated and aberrational.
But by quoting government documents, the authors systematically demolish the Bush administration claims, including that abuse took place in spite of policy, not because of it.
The book includes more than 350 pages from government documents concerning the abuse and torture of prisoners. It, according to ACLU, builds on work that the ACLU and its partners have been doing in recent years.
In October 2003, the ACLU along with the Centre for Constitutional Rights, Physicians for Human Rights, Veterans for Common Sense, and Veterans for Peace filed a request under the Freedom of Information Act for records concerning the treatment of prisoners in the US custody abroad.
While the government continues to withhold key records, litigation (which is ongoing) has resulted in the release of thousands of government documents totalling more than 1 lakh pages, it says.
Amrit Singh is a staff attorney at ACLU's Immigrants' Rights Project, where she has litigated cases relating to the torture and abuse of prisoners held in US custody abroad, the government's use of diplomatic assurances to return individuals to countries known to employ torture, the indefinite and mandatory detention of immigrants, and post 9/11 discrimination against immigrants.
Jameel Jaffer is a litigator for the American Civil Liberties Union and director of ACLU's National Security Project.
Administration of Torture provides a detailed account thus far of what took place in America's overseas detention centres and why.
Singh and Jaffer draw the connection between the policies adopted by senior civilian and military officials and the torture and abuse that took place on the ground. They also have to collect and reproduce hundreds of government documents including interrogation directives, FBI emails, autopsy reports, and investigative files obtained by the ACLU and its partners through the Freedom of Information Act.
The documents show that abuse of prisoners was not limited to Abu Ghraib but was pervasive in US detention facilities in Iraq and Afghanistan and at Guantanamo Bay.
Even more disturbing, ACLU says, the documents reveal that senior officials endorsed the abuse of prisoners as a matter of policy. The documents constitute both an important historical record and a profound indictment of the Bush administration's policies with respect to the treatment of prisoners in US custody abroad, the ACLU says.
Commenting on the book, former US Navy Counsel Alberto J Mora says Amrit Singh and Jaffer remind the administrators that when years ahead continue to test the security, 'we will again be tempted to violate our values in the mistaken belief that we will be made more secure by doing so.'
The authors 'remind us that when test comes, we must find the courage to defend our principles more firmly,' he added.
Former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson describes the book as a 'powerful account of devastating effects of deviating from longstanding legal prohibitions on the mistreatment of prisoners.'
'Jameel Jaffer and Amrit Singh bring to light the grim reality of the torture and abuse of prisoners held in US custody abroad. This book will serve as a historic reminder of the dangers of curtailing human rights protections in the name of national security,' she says.
'After the Second World War, the United States played a leading role in developing the rules that govern the conduct of states during times of peace and war. Simply by letting the facts speak for themselves, Jaffer and Singh show how far the country has strayed from that tradition. They go on to present a compelling case for rebuilding what the Bush administration has torn down,' says George Soros, chairman of the Open Society Institute.
