When the war against terror began in the immediate aftermath of the World Trade Center attacks, India cheered. We are also a democracy, the largest in the world in factand we have also suffered because of terrorist violence. We welcomed America to our fight. Given that Washington and New Delhi have moved closer in recent years, we believed that this would be a war fought by the free world against all terrorists and the dictators who sponsor them.
We were wrong. Despite the rhetoric, this war is not about freedom and democracy. Rather than fight international terrorism, the...