India, Sept. 5 -- While I have had a fair idea of the US disconnect with Indian sentiment over President Donald Trump's bizarre tariff war, the ever-widening gap between Americans of a certain ideological persuasion and the Indian response became evident to me on a recent show hosted by UK TV presenter Piers Morgan.

Brigadier general Mark Kimmitt, who retired from the US army, was among Morgan's guests. A former assistant secretary of State in the George W Bush administration and a military veteran with 30 years in service, Kimmitt astonished me when he used the word "arrogance" to describe India's unbending position before Trump's bullying. Then, he argued that the recent bonding between the US and Pakistan's Field Marshal Asim Munir sh...