New Delhi, Feb. 28 -- The Narendra Modi government had concluded early in its term 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 unthinkingly come to accept this pattern but it was India which was taking the punishment. 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-talk cycle as the "left hand washing the right hand, while the right hand is washing the left hand."...