[Wallace T.]

India doesn't need to use these 1950s era Soviet hand me downs. America and Britain need to attend to bringing India over to the Allied side. India is the natural enemy of the Muslim world and China and would be a invaluable ally in southern Asia. Colin Powell, Dick Cheney, Condoleeza Rice, and Donald Rumsfeld, along with their British equivalents, need to spend lots of time in India and offer them modern American and British aircraft, tanks, and military technology, and ultimately, military alliance.

During the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln was supposed to have said that he would like to have the Lord on his side, but he had to have Kentucky on his side. India may be as crucial in what may be a new division of the world's powers in our time.

[Technogeeb]

America and Britain need to attend to bringing India over to the Allied side

I would suggest that we do no such thing. Our current policy of economic engagement seems to be doing the job a lot better than the screw-ups in the State department could possibly manage. I have a LOT of Indian friends, and the non-muslim ones are already about as pro-America as you can get. It is only a matter of time until these people become the dominant force in the Indian government, and once that happens the alliance will occur naturally. India has a lot of problems it has to solve (government corruption, etc), but the people there can solve them as long as we don't interfere. Engaging the current government will only make things worse, since any support for the current governmental structure is likely to delay desperately needed reforms.

[Shooter 2.5]

Since you mentioned Lincoln, I might as well tell this story since we have had more than a few references on God's wrath in this conflict.

Lincoln was asked if God was on the Union's side and he said he didn't know but it was important that we were on his side.