Still President After All These Years

Although the media and much of the country have already coronated Barack Obama, George Bush is still president, and more importantly, still acting like president (from the Financial Times):

India and Pakistan exchanged sensitive nuclear information on Thursday in a rare conciliatory gesture after the sharp deterioration in relations following the Mumbai terror attacks. The step followed the personal intervention of George W. Bush, US president, who made New Year’s eve phone calls to Asif Ali Zardari, Pakistan’s president, and Manmohan Singh, India’s prime minister…

The sharing of details of atomic sites between the nuclear-armed neighbors took place under a 17-year-old agreement that binds the two countries from attacking each other’s facilities. In a related goodwill gesture, up to 40 Pakistani nationals arrived in Karachi after being released from jail in India where they had been arrested for visa infringements.

That, my friends, is how you prevent a nuclear war. Barack Obama would do well to observe his predecessor and learn.