It is the straightforward thing to address today's problem today before trying to address what can conceivably be tommorow's problem. India, being a federated democracy, can only predict and plan for a limited foreseeable future. Pakistan is little more than a modernized tribal society and acts in an instinctive and short-sighted fashion common to most such primitive societies, but it is protected by a very professional military and nuclear forces nonetheless.

There is no way India can solve the Pakistani problem in 5 years (the term limit of an Indian government) before it has to face election again. There is no way Pakistanis can solve the Indian problem in 48-odd hours it takes for their drug-induced high to wear off. So both of them try to address today;s problem of survival today, and leave tommorow's fate to tommorow.

People know that it is a bit a naivee attitude in which to approach the problem of the highly centralized and far-seeing CCP. But the Indian people have made the decision that our democracy and freedom is more valuable than any hypothetical security afforded by a similarly centralized government. We  believe, like your Benjamin Franklin said, "People who are willing to compromise freedom for a bit of security deserve neither freedom nor security".

And things are not so bad either: India has invested in some very robust institutions. We might not have aces in holes (unlike CCP), but we do have some cards right there in the open that we can play in quite unconventional and war-winning manner.