The blogosphere has been splattered, much like the carnage itself, with varying accounts of the mindless mayhem we had in Mumbai for 3 days. Thank God it's over, or is it?
While there are thousands of questions and thousands more waiting to be thought out, there is only one answer - the evil needs to be exterminated at its bud.
Where is the bud and how do we exterminate it? We all know for the entire length of known human history, there have been umpteen instances to suggest that men killed other men, and committed heinous crimes continuing to shock the generation only to be upstaged by the next. So, to preach angelic interventions is not only impossible but also impractical. The biggest difference in the current wave versus the earlier times is that the enemy often attacked in person and took pride in the fight to finish. Now, it's an unknown enemy, backed by unknown forces, supported by unknown causes and perpetrated against unknowing nations. There are many who'll disagree, who'll profess to know where exactly these crimes are coming from and who exactly are behind it and how exactly they go about it, but they'll remain theorists. How else do you explain that at one end there is a continued resurgence of terror and on the other we have reactive democratic forces who lack the resolve to beat their own territorial boundaries and mental blocks and seek solutions.
The israeli security agencies have suggested that the Mumbai combing operations were far from perfect but that's how they will be. Ours is a nation which hesitates to rope in talent. We are net exporters of human resources and armed forces and value our own lives very little.
It needs a resurgence of a nation to counter the current forces against India. We are very very far from that at this stage.
