We forget that at the height of the Cold War the United States and the Soviet Union were spending $500 billion on their nuclear arsenals,

Unlike the United States and the former Soviet Union during the Cold War, India and Pakistan do not have the benefit of a vast ocean between them,

The terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States - and war is what they got.

They're going public, ... They're saying, 'We're having this war against the United States.'

Though there has been no dramatic breakthrough on Kashmir, both sides are reaching for, and plucking, the low-hanging fruit of the peace tree,

There's a lot of dash in the announcements, but if they have to be meaningful they have to be negotiated away from the glare of the media at the bilateral level,