How can you not hate terrorists? And if everyone hates them, who would want to be one? And yet here they are. Once again.
My heart goes out to India. It’s awful what they are facing. From the Hindustan Times comes a sad, sad truth.
It sounds flip and glib to say that these attacks constitute India’s 9/11. But that, in fact, is the truth.
The significance of 9/11 was that it made Americans conscious of the danger they were in and aware that nothing was safe; that terrorists could destroy such powerful symbols of American prestige as the World Trade Center.
In our case, 26/11 has had the same impact. By striking at the heart of prosperous and largely peaceful south Bombay, the terrorists have served notice that there is nothing they cannot do, and nowhere that they cannot reach.
This was the most ridiculous news I heard on these attacks. And from Amir Taheri who I’ve always taken for being intelligent and thoughtful though a bit quick on the draw.
Earlier this week, for example, Pakistan President Assif Ali Zardari announced his readiness to settle the dispute with India over Kashmir, promising an end to a conflict that has led to four wars and countless terrorist campaigns over the past 50 years.
On Wednesday, terror organizations that do not wish the Kashmir problem to be solved offered their opinion of such a shift, in the form of a series of coordinated attacks against sensitive targets in Bombay (Mumbai), India’s business capital and the engine of its recent economic takeoff.
Yes, somehow Mr. Taheri has connected these horrible attacks that clearly took a lot of planning and coordination with an announcement made this week from Zadari.
Jules Crittenden with Bill Roggio quotes notes that this took long term planning. (lots of links there too) It certainly wasn’t arrived at in the week since the Zadari announcement.
Anyway – you’re in our thoughts people of India and especially Mumbai.
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