I do not agree with many things that the author wrote.
1) Although peace is not a word used these days anywhere, it still is a powerful weapon, which the westerners can never ever ever understand. Example? British rules for centuries all over the world, including the great invincible US of A. India is the only one which kicked Britisher's butt with a weapon called Peace.
2) US of A is not an angel with powerful arms trying to punish the countries or enemies which hurts USA. USA has got its own agenda to take care of like Oil, billions of dollars contracts, Presidential authority on many things, toppling the whole governemnts in third world countries. The moment, 911 happened, the so called most powerful man on earth saw a chance to indave Iraq, and in order to do that, they first needed to invade Afghanistan. And inspite of that, they did not catch hold of Bin Laden. Neither could they restrain Iraqi violence.
Coming back to the home turf, agreed, India always let the enemies slip away with internal enemies, internal helpers, internal bickerings. But the natiion as a whole never ever gave up fighting against terrorism. Not including the fact that it is a 1 billion popul