A joke going around on social media proposes how President Trump might arrest terrorism against Indian Kashmir by jihadist groups based in Pakistan, a nation that at its worst actively arms and hides these terrorists, and at most benignly turns a blind eye. Let Mr. Trump open a sizable resort in Kashmir, the joke goes here. Give him rent-free land on a long lease for ski resorts and golf courses; then, see how fast terrorism declines.
Apart from humor, Mr. Trump has scored his first significant diplomatic success and helped to ease tensions in the area. On April 22, terrorists claimed by India from Pakistan shot dead 26 citizens in Pahalgam, a bucolic resort in Kashmir 125 miles from the de facto border between India and Pakistan. (The terrorists’ murderous sophistication and the weakness of India’s military intelligence are shown by their capacity to access so far deep into India.) India responded by on May 7 launching missile strikes on terrorist redoubts in Pakistan. Before a U.S.-brokered cease-fire brought an end, the two nuclear-armed nations engaged in an armed confrontation more fierce than a skirmish but too limited to be called a war.
