Meanwhile, the PM has made an offer to face a thorough parliamentary debate after the negotiations with the IAEA and the NSG and before the Indo-US deal is implemented. Rejecting this sensible proposal and acting in haste, the communists might repent at leisure when they find themselves out of sync with not just the rest of the political class (with the exception of their sworn enemy, the BJP) but broader centrist opinion in the country as well. This is not the first time, however, that the communists have rushed down an adventurist course, only to recant later.