[gcruse]

 
Sheesh! the ColdWar. Let me ask you, who're the newest members of Nato.

Russia has had a revolution.  A change of ideology.  India
is the same country that stood against freedom and alongside
communism for decades.

[swarthyguy]

That's because being a democracy it didn't need a revolution like a dictatorship and merely changed parties.

[GOP_1900AD]

Not quite. The first truly Rightist government since 1947 is in power. For the first time since the Raj, India is looking increasingly to nations such as the US, Israel, and Italy for weapons and support. The ball is in the West's court vis a vis India. Continue to coddle two-faced ChiCOM bootlicker Musharraf and lose what might be a unique opportunity to sway India away from any number of countries who are anti-US and anti-Western. Embrace India now and make one of the sorts of bold geopolitical moves that could be an huge factor in how we are positioned for the next ("There is will always be a next war." R. Cheney, 1990) great powers conflict. This is on par with the embrace by the US of the UK at the turn of the 20th century.