Dec 28 2008
What is the central issue here?
I am so pleased with the comments and responses from my fellow bloggers in Today.com. I am an Indian and I live in India. The pain that I am undergoing is nothing when compared to my fellow Indians after the recent Mumbai attacks. Innocent women and children lost their lives just because a bunch of religious fakes decided to end their lives. The cheek of it all, the injustice of it all, is something only the true believers of decency will understand. A whole month has passed and everyone has only talked and talked and talked. Why was there a buildup of military forces by Pakistan? Because it realized at last that people in India will take it no more. They panicked for real. In all this rhetoric of war from both sides they forgot the only thing that Pakistan had to do - examine the evidence that India has given and act upon it. The section of the Pakistani military should not be allowed to collaborate with Taliban and Al-Queda. But who can get this done? Probably only the UN Security Council. What if at the month of March when elections are due in India? What if the terrorists conduct another Mumbai like attack then?
prepare for instead of acting on the assumption. for me when you give in to violence the violence will continue (6 years of violence in Iraq is my example). striking on the assumption that another attack will come during elections is playing into their hands because they enjoy the chaos. if you instead prepare for the possiblity of the attack, be diligent, maybe the attack will not happen. when you allow people to bring you down to their level then you become no better than them - that’s the way I see it!!