I guess the difference between us and them is that our pacifist party doesn't even want to possess the weaponry, let alone use it.
Yet, 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.
Indeed, the US asks Israel and India to conduct themselves in a manner which we would never consider.
i even dread to think what would the situation be had democrats been in power during 9/11! they would have probably invited osama to peace talks, and would declare they have successfully resolved the whole issue.