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Bush's India triumph: an overlooked achievement.(George W. Bush)

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| April 06, 2009 | Currie, Duncan | COPYRIGHT 2009 National Review, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

SHORTLY before George W. Bush left office, Harvard historian Sugata Bose told me that strengthening U.S. relations with India "may turn out to be the most significant foreign-policy achievement of the Bush administration." It is an achievement that Indians greatly appreciate: In mid-February, a spokesman for the ruling Congress party said that Bush deserves India's top civilian award, the Bharat Ratna ("Jewel of India"), an honor rarely conferred on non-Indians.

"The people of India deeply love you," Prime Minister Manmohan Singh told Bush last September. In the 2008 Pew Global Attitudes survey, India was one of only three countries out of 24 in which a majority ...

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