I argue here because it is a direct response to your comment here. Feel free to quote me, with links, "in the context of the debate".

India and Pakistan do a lot of posturing, just like Iran and Israel do towards each other. Of the 4 countries...

• which ones have not signed the NPT?
  
• which ones are US allies?
  
• which ones have nuclear weapons?
  
• which ones have gone to war with each other?
  
• which one is a military dictatorship?

A society committed to the notion that government is always bad will have bad government. And it doesn't have to be that way. — Paul Krugman