After the QUAD, the G20 bonhomie, 2+2 confabulations and all that, comes the dampener of US umbrage at the presumed action by the Indian intelligence in trying to neutralize the proclaimed terrorist Pannun on the American soil. Coming as it does after the Canadian charge of ‘convincing allegation’ an oxymoron that made Justin Trudeau the laughing stock of the academic and diplomatic community, it gives enemies of India a handle that had best been avoided. As per their version, India chose to ignore the matter put up earlier in closed meetings and so it was revealed to the world