Why US won't attack India

There is an interesting column in The Hindustan Times today about why US won't attack India or China.

I got reminded of Tom Friedman's Column in NYTIMES ( Aug-11-2002) where he wrote about how the big US companies with Indian operations, stopped a possible Indo-Pak nuclear war.

Here is an excerpt:

BANGALORE, India — Two months ago India and Pakistan appeared headed for a nuclear war. Colin Powell, the U.S. secretary of state and a former general, played a key role in talking the two parties back from the brink. But here in India, I've discovered that there was another new, and fascinating, set of pressures that restrained the Indian government and made nuclear war, from its side, unthinkable. Quite simply, India's huge software and information technology industry, which has emerged over the last decade and made India the back-room and research hub of many of the world's largest corporations, essentially told the nationalist Indian government to cool it. And the government here got the message and has sought to de-escalate ever since. That's right — in the crunch, it was the influence of General Electric, not General Powell, that did the trick.