"India, Pakistan to Set Up Hotline: Talks End With Agreement to Maintain Moratorium on Nuclear Testing," by John Lancaster, Washington Post, 21 June, p. A12.
"India and Pakistan: Good Fences Make Good Neighbors," by Amy Waldman, New York Times, 4 July, p. A3.
Mutual-assured destruction is an inescapable logic, one that has secured the Core from great power war for six decades and counting. More and more, it secures the peace between India and Pakistan, which haven't gone to war since 1971, notwithstanding all the lobbed shells and tough talk of the past three-plus decades.
Any surprise that India is putting up its own "security fence" in the disputed Kashmir regions? No. Like the one going up between Israel and Palestine, this tried-and-true method makes just as much sense there as it did in Berlin all those decades (call it the "Line of Self-Control"). It's a crude form of risk management, but in the crudest circumstances it can work wonders, buying time for the long-term growth of economic connectivity that ultimately secures the peace.
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