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What a waste of time. Sad that even Rumsfeld is beholden to a demonstrated failing doctrine of foreign policy initially hatched by Kissenger and amplified by successive waves of appeasers, believers in Fukuyamaian logic of exception to historical and geopolitical processes, and, the almighty US based, but utterly non-nationalistic and non-patriotic "global" corporate community. The time for us to return to a policy of DEFINITE allies and taking DEFINITE sides in geopolitical struggles that will ultimately force us to take the sides we now avoid, was yesterday. Like the UK 1919 - 1939, we foolishly believe in temporary constructs such as the UN (just like the unltimately failed League of Nations) to allow us to shirk our responsibility to CONTROL to the maximal level of our capability factors that shall ultimately coalesce into the next great powers conflict. With the forgoing set into place, does anyone care to give me an opinion regarding which country, India or Pakistan, we must take the side of immediately?

I say India. With the exception of the caste system the country is a democracy and it isn't Muslim. Those are two very good reasons in my book.

My answer would be unashamedly biased. An Alliance of Allies or a Coalition of (unwilling) partners.