When the act itself is the message, why diminish the impact by incendiary triumphalism? But the prime minister’s men with their adolescent fervor to brag about their “score” have been doing just that recently, giving India’s critics a handle to skewer New Delhi.
The Pakistani establishment is making full use of every inflammatory statement coming from Indian leaders. Western reporters who blithely equate the complex history of India and Pakistan in set paragraphs written for kindergartners are also jumping in – and seeing Islamabad as the victim.