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We have been incredibly naive to trust a Beijing bootlicker like Musharraf at all. We should have taken up India's initial post 9/11 offer of alliance without fail, and, stood shoulder to shoulder as we invaded and conquered Pakistan. Unfortunately, in spite of many incorrectly labelling the USA as "an empire" we are the "anti Empire" and incapable of thinking in such stark terms. Such bold and decisive action is not inside our comfort zone; the USA has become the world's super mom, seeking to please all. This shall become our undoing if we do not change. I boldly afront the old Kissingerian philosophy with this adage: "There are true allies and everyone else is an enemy until proven otherwise." Naturally this adage is irreconcilable with multilateralism and globalism. But I suspect I shall be proven correct.

The recent exercises publicised in Ladakh make me optimistic.

Despite public rhetoric and the spinelessness of our treatment of saudi and pak, i'll go out on a limb and say exercises in the Himalayas, combined with the extensive cooperation between the US Sixth Fleet and the Indian Navy in patrolling the Molucca Straits, give me a feeling that the US is lining up its ducks in the eventuality of a major world war.

So, at least the Pentagon is thinking with clarity and vision into the future.

Now, the politicians and Foggy Bottom need to do the same.