I have never supporter of Congress policy - from terrorism, its appeasement of minorities, its rural employment genration schemes to quotas & reservations in education & jobs. on the nuclear agreement, I vote with the PM. At the very least, with this treaty, US is not going hong and tong in isolating India and denying it the technology that may be useful in other areas of development, e.g., space program. It is worth reminding every body that the technology that enabled China to shoot down a satellite was obtained from US. This treaty breaks the technology denial regime that the US led against India until now. For just this feat alone, Dr Singh deserves kudos from all the well-meaning people of India. India does not necessarily have to import nuclear reactors - they are too expensive, take as long as 10 years to build, and cost per kwh much higher than alternate and/or trditional sources, like coal. The fact that India will be able to import technology - particularly dual use technology - is reason enough to support the deal. Further, this deal is an enabler for additional FDI investment in India; indian enterprenaurs should take advantage of chinese discomfort in several recent product recalls to bring manufaturing peoposals to US companies, because only manufacturing is going to alleviate rural/poor/unskiled unemployment. Software & pharma industries may be greate name brands but they provide jobs to the very skilled and in relativelymuch smaller numbers than manufacturing
