Last week's editorial about the Mumbai attacks was urging Indian police not to point fingers, and admonishing India in advance against going to war with Pakistan, when there have been no signs of any such war being prepared.
Now that more and more evidence is emerging that the Mumbai attacks were planned and executed by Pakistanis, today's editorial at last mentions that Pakistan needs to cooperate.
But then it goes on to say:
India’s growing investment and intelligence network in Afghanistan also is feeding Islamabad’s insecurity and sense of encirclement. India must be transparent about its involvement in Afghanistan.
What?? So now, the Times editorial board is making excuses for Pakistan's terrorist bombing of the Indian embassy in Kabul in July 2008, which killed 58 people. Every U.S. intelligence expert knows that this bombing was orchestrated by the ISI through an extremist organization.
When I last checked, Afghanistan and India were sovereign countries. Afghanistan can host as many embassies as it likes, and Indians can make as many investments as they want. Any "feelings of encirclement" are Pakistan's problem and cannot be used to excuse a terrorist bombing. This editorial (link) is an apologia for what is rapidly looking like a terrorist state.
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