I just stumbled onto a debate on the Alan Keyes show, on the Indo-Pak situation, and, for once, it wasn’t just Keyes telling some president of the local young democrats how wrong she is. I missed the names of the panel, but former representative Bob Dornan was one of them. I only mention the debate because it mentions some ideas on the crises that I’d only heard so far in the blogosphere. But maybe that’s just because I’ve been reading too many blogs.

Most Important among these was the possibility of American military intervention. The most mild of options discussed was running a joint US-Pakistan operation in Kashmir to wipe out the militants there. The more forceful position, presented by Keyes, advocated dumping Pakistan altogether and letting India go buck-wild with American support.

I’m not a big fan of Keyes, but on this issue I agree with him. Pakistan, like the PLO, is letting terrorists fight a proxy war that the army can’t possibly win. Worse, the Pakistanis don’t even have the lame-ass “I’ve been stopped by the damage the evil Israelis left” excuse that Arafat uses. The western half of Kashmir is fully under Pakistan’s control, and their security service could permanently put their local terrorists out of commission in a matter of days if they want to. But they don’t.

India isn’t blameless in the latest rounds of violence, but Indian nuclear scientists haven’t been having tea and biscuits with Mullah Omar. If we have to come down on one side in this war, I’d much rather have us backing secular, democratic India.