Nuclear Deal 3
In a lighter vein
Rallying for the Deal
- Hi Sonia!
- Hello George! What’s up?
- Well, darling, I am in a bit of a soup and I need my friends to rally round me.
- You are always in a soup, George. What’s it this time? Not another Iraq I presume
- Yes, and No. Yes, because ultimately the root cause is my misadventure in Iraq; and No, because at the moment it is the free fall of our Economy.
- What do you care? You will be rid of all this by the end of the year.
- True, but the business lobby has been pressurizing me since the dollar took a dive.
- But you have done well in your oil business since you got the Iraqi oil. What more do you want?
- I want you to help me out with your surging economy.
- Well, you are the Head of the State of your country, but I am not.
- You are! You are! You are the Super Head!
- Be that as it may, what exactly is on your mind? I can’t do a Quattrochi for you.
- No, no, no, no. I simply want you to make a deal with the USA.
- Please explain.
- Well, we are in a bad shape, as far as the balance of trade is concerned, and you can help us by buying some old nuclear reactors at, say, ten times the fair price. That’ll be some help, buddy.
- You mean a One-to-Three agreement?
- I do not understand.
- One-to-Three. Means trash transferred from the First World to the Third World, and cash from the Third to the First.
- (Chuckle) Oh! Italians are ever so clever!
- But you cannot mention this cash-thing in the Agreement.
- We’ll do a hide-act. We’ll draft it so that everything will be hidden. We’ll give it a respectable name; we’ll call it the “Indo-US Nuclear Deal”.
- That sounds great! Now that’s all the stick. Where’s the carrot for public consumption?
- We’ll say that the NSG will be permitted to sell Uranium to India.
- But India doesn’t need Uranium. They have enough Thorium.
- How many know that, eh? Moreover the NSG will do some good business in the bargain.
- What do I get in the bargain?
- I’ll look after your family…..
- Now you are talking like an Italian Mafia instead of an American cowboy.
- So, is it a deal, sweetie?
- By George, it is, it is. I’ll send my second in command to seal the Deal. He doesn’t understand a thing about nuclear energy.
- What about your Parliament?
- They can’t do a thing once we seal the Deal
- OK then. Thanks and bye!
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Rallying for the Deal
- Hi Sonia!
- Hello George! What’s up?
- Well, darling, I am in a bit of a soup and I need my friends to rally round me.
- You are always in a soup, George. What’s it this time? Not another Iraq I presume
- Yes, and No. Yes, because ultimately the root cause is my misadventure in Iraq; and No, because at the moment it is the free fall of our Economy.
- What do you care? You will be rid of all this by the end of the year.
- True, but the business lobby has been pressurizing me since the dollar took a dive.
- But you have done well in your oil business since you got the Iraqi oil. What more do you want?
- I want you to help me out with your surging economy.
- Well, you are the Head of the State of your country, but I am not.
- You are! You are! You are the Super Head!
- Be that as it may, what exactly is on your mind? I can’t do a Quattrochi for you.
- No, no, no, no. I simply want you to make a deal with the USA.
- Please explain.
- Well, we are in a bad shape, as far as the balance of trade is concerned, and you can help us by buying some old nuclear reactors at, say, ten times the fair price. That’ll be some help, buddy.
- You mean a One-to-Three agreement?
- I do not understand.
- One-to-Three. Means trash transferred from the First World to the Third World, and cash from the Third to the First.
- (Chuckle) Oh! Italians are ever so clever!
- But you cannot mention this cash-thing in the Agreement.
- We’ll do a hide-act. We’ll draft it so that everything will be hidden. We’ll give it a respectable name; we’ll call it the “Indo-US Nuclear Deal”.
- That sounds great! Now that’s all the stick. Where’s the carrot for public consumption?
- We’ll say that the NSG will be permitted to sell Uranium to India.
- But India doesn’t need Uranium. They have enough Thorium.
- How many know that, eh? Moreover the NSG will do some good business in the bargain.
- What do I get in the bargain?
- I’ll look after your family…..
- Now you are talking like an Italian Mafia instead of an American cowboy.
- So, is it a deal, sweetie?
- By George, it is, it is. I’ll send my second in command to seal the Deal. He doesn’t understand a thing about nuclear energy.
- What about your Parliament?
- They can’t do a thing once we seal the Deal
- OK then. Thanks and bye!
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