The forum does not discuss why we need this deal keeping long term benefits in mind. India has hostile neighbours. Pak, Chin, Bangladesh etc all are united. They have become very powerful economically and militarily. It is hardly now impossible that a war jointly by atleast china and pak may happen sooner than later. China's economic might will ensure that pak and bangladesh will be helped like us and ussr did in the middle east thereby crippling india for ever. they have succeeded in nepal this way. india is just a few years away. the middle east hostory shows that aligning with one of the powers wil always help in deterring countries like china etc. israel successfully first used france, then usa to diplomatically win over arabs. and militarily they succeeded in developing their own deterrence and offense. India is just doing the same and we have no other option going forward. the future will be again be bipolar with usa and china as the two superpowers. it is time every indian realised this.
Further, people who are complaining about pm focussing on inflation than nuclear deal do not realise that inflation is a short term issue. in long term, fuel costs will increase the inflation always since fuel is less in earth. nuclear energy will help reduce our energy needs thereby scope of inflation. further, arab countries are or will be anyways inimical to india when china and pak appears. usa would only the power to control fuel prices in future. it therefore makes sense to h
