NEW DELHI, March 3 -- Soon after it was elected, the Narendra Modi government concluded that the India-Pakistan relationship had fallen into an unthinking cycle of talks, followed by terror, followed by more talks, ad nauseam. Both governments had come to accept this pattern, but India was the one getting a bloody nose. The outgoing government, when asked about how to handle Pakistan's terror actions, simply told the Modi team, "Just keep talking to them." Modi's National Security Advisor, Ajit Doval, privately described this terror-talks cycle as the "left hand washing the right hand, while the right hand is washing the left hand"....