The Pakistan Times, quoting "diplomatic sources," reported from Islamabad on Friday that Rice was expected to "make an important announcement" there expressing a U.S. "willingness to resume the supply of F-16 fighter planes to Pakistan." Great, the Pakis are getting new toys. I bet they have already begun planning their next great military adventure against India.
They are going to have their a$$ handed back to them in a sling all over again.
Mostly Hindu India and mostly Muslim Pakistan have fought three wars since they were created by the British partition of colonial India in 1947 and have come close to armed conflict several other times. This is where the author of this piece is trying a sleight-of-hand trick. India, though mostly Hindu, is a liberal, secular democracy. Pakistan is its ante-thesis.