Obama also called Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice three times over the last few days seeking information. Advisers to the president-elect said that while they were not aware of everything the Bush administration has done during the crisis, they knew of nothing that Obama would have necessarily done differently.
Given the disastrous implications of any armed conflict between India and Pakistan, it is not hard to envision the Obama administration following a similar playbook to the one the Bush administration followed during the two countries’ occasional flare-ups.