This was roughly the background that informed Parliament’s discussion this week in an otherwise enlightened effort to find ways and means of persuading Pakistan to dismantle terrorist infrastructure without the use of military threat. The situation does not need obfuscating ideological analyses. Meditations on the shrinking of the non-American — and thereby “secure” — world to Cuba, Venezuela and Iran should be conducted in the private confines of A.K. Gopalan Bhavan.