I wonder where we would be if he had actually reached India. I am actually related to the Grishams, but all Grishams with money are distant relatives. And thus the leaders of the world's two largest democracies bonded in that human way that can send a ray of hope into the vast threat posed by the presence of nuclear weapons on the subcontinent and the ongoing dispute between India and Pakistan over Kashmir. The threat was certainly on the minds of many guests last night, underlying a general atmosphere of brotherly jollity in the tented palace of gold, pomegranate and more gold on the South Lawn. As she spoke before clicking cameras at the White House's east guest entrance, her husband, architect Peter Cook, stood by solicitously, his unmoving right hand firmly planted upon the exact epicenter of her behind.
Nuclear proliferation is the greatest threat of the century.
New Age guru Deepak Chopra agreed. If we go the way of the predator with nuclear weapons, we risk extinction. India should show us the same way now. But all was not grim last night. Tonight is for the good stuff.