Barack Obama welcomes Manmohan Singh during a ceremony at the White House. Photograph: Larry Downing/ReutersIndia: Obama's Forgotten Friends -- Tunku Varadarajan, The Daily Beast
With India disappointed with Obama ahead of tonight's state dinner, the president vowed to "work even closer" with its prime minister. Tunku Varadarajan on the cost of ignoring our allies.
On Tuesday evening, the world’s most consequential turbaned man, Manmohan Singh, will glide through White House security and take his place at a dinner table beside Barack and Michelle Obama. He is the prime minister of India, a country that could, if Mr. Obama shoots his diplomatic hoops right, come to be a preeminent American ally in the 21st century, taking its place alongside Britain, Israel, and, assuming the bolshie Yukio Hatoyama doesn’t live forever, Japan.
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COMMENTARIES, OPINIONS, AND EDITORIALS
We Need India's Help In Afghanistan -- Marshall M. Bouton and Alyssa Ayres, Forbes
Obama Loses a Round (Against China) -- Ying Chan, New York Times
Obama Blunders Through Asia -- Ross Terrill, Weekly Standard
Obama’s Foreign Policy: Shakedown 1979 -- Christopher Badeaux, The New Ledger
U.S.: A Superpower Without Allies -- Anne Applebaum, Washington Post
The Right Debates the War -- Tony Blankley, Washington Times
Obama's nuclear spring (Israel and Iran's nuclear program) -- Benny Morris, The Guardian
Terrorists Use Democratic Talking Points -- Washington Times editorial
Ukraine: A Democracy at Risk -- Myroslava Gongadze, Wall Street Journal
Turkey and the Kurds -- New York Times editorial
Australia vs. New Zealand — it's getting ugly -- Global Post
After Copenhagen, the end of the science -- Terence Corcoran, National Post