This is a series, I am the world. I'm John Bachelor with my colleague

Saadan Dumé of the American Enterprise Institute, a columnist for the

Wall Street Journal editorial page, writing in his column most recently

asking the question what about Hamas and Hezbollah why is in India

involved in denouncing it the country as the subhead says a terror problem. It's always had a terror problem.

Directed ad in India, usually the terrorists come out of Pakistan. In this instance,

though, the terrorists are clearly interested in upsetting the world peace

and the Middle East, and that affects everybody in Eurasia.

So, Soutenon, your column is very disturbing because I see that India is both a regional

power and very careful about the Muslim Hindu split. Although it wouldn't have come to me, does India

or render Modi's government, does it avoid Hamas and Hezbollah because the Muslims of India are not at peace or because

they're India's threatened by extremists out of Pakistan is that why it's

ducking yeah so a couple of things right is that

a couple of things right on the face of it it seems that pretty much like a no-brainer I mean obviously India should ban Hamas and Hezbollah

first of all just on the facts, these are clearly terrorist groups. They attack civilians. They both subscribe to a radical ideology, a radical against gays and so forth. But in fact, India has banned neither group,

even though it has banned other groups such as Al Qaeda and Islamic State.

So the question is why.

And the answer I come to in the column is basically twofold.

The first is that Hamas and Hezbollah do not directly target India.

And so the way the Indians look at it is that, well, these groups are not really attacking us directly,

so maybe we just don't want to get involved in this.

The second, and particularly in the case of Hezbollah is that this would

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