The American Spectator

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India has been engaged in a peace process with the very neighbour it knows is out to dismember it through any and every means available to it.

Is it any surprise that terrorists continue to attack India with impunity?

Contrast this with the way America has gone about its business since September 11, 2001, and you will see why that nation has not faced any attack in the last five years. Osama may fume and fret from his mountain hole, but there’s little more than that he and his terrorist hordes have been able to achieve against the only remaining superpower.

That is because America understands that war can only be won through war, it cannot be won through peace, a belief India has been labouring under for so long.

br> India, like the United States, has been at war with Islamist terrorists for years now. And as with the United States after 9/11, it has every right to hold nations responsible for harboring and abetting the terrorists who attacked it. However, the risks of this confrontation are potentially much more grave: one hopes that two nuclear powers, and two allies of the United States, can be deterred from an all-out confrontation over this issue.

If Pakistan is serious about avoiding a war — possibly a nuclear war — with India, it should hand over Dawood Ibrahim to face Indian justice. The United States, in its efforts to maintain the peace between the two nations, should insist on no less from Pakistan. And if Dawood Ibrahim’s testimony brings down the Islamist wing of the ISI, the world will be a better place for it.