>Or Rakesh, as the Indian anti-nuke movement posited last night, maybe
>it's a sign not of having already consolided its rule, but of the
>fragility of rule. A feel-good populist measure to keep intact a very
>shaky coalition government?
Well, hell, if their bomb-inspired bounce in the polls starts to decay, what will they do for an encore? Vaporize Islamabad?
Doug