Provocative rhetoric
India never seems to learn. Decades of repeated confrontations and hard lessons have done little to temper a recurring impulse in New Delhi to mistake rhetorical bravado for strategic clarity. The latest remarks by India's army chief, Gen Upendra Dwivedi, suggesting that Pakistan must decide whether it wishes to remain part of 'geography or history', are only the most recent expression of this troubling pattern.
Such language is dangerous. It comes not from a television studio or a........
