we are now looking for scapegoats to pin the blame on, and then to be able to forget about the whole matter. politicians' resignations are being asked for left, right and centre. will that solve anything? are there any good ones to replace the ones who are resigning? if anything, atleast the ones who resign show they have some conscience of some kind.
this is the kind of attack that is virtually impossible to stop, no matter which part of the world you happen to be in. these are fatalistic men, prepared to risk all, worked up to a frenzy by their belief in the injustice on their people for centuries. how will you battle them by making 2-3 politicians resign?
in my opinion, the thing to do is to have a better, more organized, more responsive central intelligence agency in the country that is dedicated to fighting terrorism. we need to not only have advance intelligence, we need somebody who will take it seriously and take appropriate action. it now appears there was prior knowledge of the attack on the taj, the planned entry by sea-routes and even mumbai as a target by armed gunmen. but nobody took any appropriate action, and hence we were not prepared. granted, it is probably hard to sift through all the false warnings and threats to get to the few that actually mean something - all the more reason to have a central intelligence agency!
alas, it seems there's no alternative but to increase spending on defence. it's such a pity, because we really need the money to be spent on our nation's development. the terrorists are targeting the strongest nations with a clear agenda - bring down the superpowers, reduce all to the mess that their own nations are in. why don't u spend all that time and energy in making your nations better instead? a**holes!
just heard some good news on bbc - the Indian PM has actually set up a central intelligence agency that will deal exclusively with terrorism, and has augmented the forces involved in anti-terrorist operations. he also mentioned that this is the time for all political parties to rise above petty political differences and present a united front against this unprecedented threat. bravo, mr. manmohan, you do us proud!
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The only problem is that India, though the entire apparatus is in place, takes threats seriously after each catastrophe. And boy have there been many!!! How will they take the central intelligence agency seriously, when they let this happen in a year when India was bombed in multiple cities?! There's been so much "practice" for the terrorists this year that no one can actually say the Mumbai attacks came out of the blue! Maybe Indian politicians should adopt the point of view that each of the almost two billion lives they represent matters! In the meantime, I think it's a good thing for them to see they are accountable for what they don't take seriously enough. It'll sharpen their successors' attention when it comes to such matters. Have you seen "A Wednesday"?
In India, that's exactly the problem - too many lives to bother about, so nobody bothers about any. But things do seem to be serious at last, atleast from what we see on bbc.
I did see A Wednesday! Fantastic movie! Are you suggesting that as a viable solution to this problem tho? Donno about that... Vigilante justice only seems to work in movies!
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