Everyone who has been following Indian affairs for a while would be aware that terrorists trying to instill fear in Indians is nothing new and that these attempts have never been successful. But this time, the attacks have taken unusual dimensions including firing on the streets, setting hotels/luxury spots ablaze; and every act of terror that people would've seen only in action movies. Quite naturally, this has given way to a lot of discussions; and I felt that this topic deserved a second post.
I felt a bit annoyed to see this post in one of the blogs that I landed upon. I completely agree that the situation is grave and anyone who was on the venue of the demonic activity, would be upset to the core. But is leaving the country a solution? Isn't that called escapism? Our country is like our body... Just because some virus attacks it, we don't shed it or run away from it. If finance is your problem and you are really finding it hard to make some good money at home, you may explore the possibilities outside and plan to come back at a later point. But giving reasons like 'life if too busy' in my opinion is BS. If that's the case, one can always opt to settle down in a second tier city where life is peaceful and they get the space and style of life they need. When we fight for abstract things like community, language, religion, etc why don't we fight to eliminate the pressing problem of the locality? Running away from problems is never a solution! I hope and pray these people understand that...
Next is the attempt to attribute these attacks to 'Hindu terrorists'!! I was tempted to write a post on that one, but this post saved my time and words. Hats off to the author.
The last and the most important part that I wanted to talk about was about the motive of the attacks. As I said in the beginning of this post, this attack is completely different from what India has seen before. This could mean one of the two things...
1. The Indian Intelligence, Police, Government and all single security enforcement official are really, really dumb.
2. The scary alternative - the Government/intelligence planned it.
I'm pretty inclined towards taking up the second option as the more acceptable version because I don't believe that Indian security has become so bad that terrorists holding ultramodern rifles can wander on the streets as if they are in some Cuban Naxelite camp. Before you say WTF you mean the government planned it, let me explain why I feel so.
I believe that the strongly convincing videos in Youtube about the involvement of FBI/CIA/US Govt on the 9/11 attack would've got your attention. In case you are completely unfamiliar about this, please visit this site. I'm not dumb enough to say that India did this because US did that; but I had some points in my mind that got me into this suspicion and it's up to you to decide if that's worth considering or sheer crap!
1. The operation on the whole is highly sophisticated. We have never seen such an orchestrated terrorist attack involving ultramodern weapons in the history of Indian crimes.
2. Everyone seems to be surprised including the Intelligence. The incidents that happened before were carried out on a large scale with trivial hand made grenades; which sounds practical. But AK 47 in public and the intelligence being clueless?
3. India's recent stance with the US. I'm not sure if our intelligent Congress men are borrowing some wicked ideas from the US.
4. In the current state of affairs, congress has absolutely no scope to win the upcoming elections and a war on Pakistan could be a life line for them.
5. The opposition parties have not made any great issues out of this incident. Perhaps BJP doesn't want to stop a war against Pakistan?
6. Pakistan expresses its condolence as if this is the first terrorist attack on India.
7. Police cars being a part of the gun fire. Where did the terrorists get the chance to seize a Police car? They just ran out with their guns, shot a senior official and took the jeep?
8. The particular interest shown on the foreign nationals staying in the luxury hotels and the way it is projected as a matter of importance to the US and the UK too!
9. The ATS head who was shot, as reported by media was not targeted; but he was caught in some random firing! An expert not knowing how to hide from bullets?
10. The news was the cover story today in almost all leading news channels in the US; and at least to my knowledge they don't give so much importance to news completely unrelated to the US. And on top of it, US extends its 'Support' to all decisions taken by India.
I could go on stating my suspicions but I don't know how true these could be or even if I'm putting up a sane argument. But this is what I strongly feel at the heart of my hearts. Iff (mathematical notation) this is true, I feel it's a really bad political stunt from the Indian government. After all, we've been having problems for a quite long time; but we were always in a position to say 'Meraa Bharath Mahaan' with pride and complete spirits. Let's settle our issues between us and our enemy; and let us not allow the hypocrisy of the west to enter our veins. Jai Hind!
7 comments:
I appreciate the faith that you have on Indian intelligence system. But unfortunately, the truth sucks. If terrorists are able to attack parliament, do you think getting AK-47 inside Mumbai is a big deal?
I liked the way you think, especially when this spineless congress government is thinking of ways to garner some votes when they are miserably failing in all aspects...but it sounded like extreme thinking for me...
The answer to your post title is 'Yes...Absolutely...without any second thoughts'...
Your own words answer your questions... In the past six months, India has seen more explosions and deaths than any other country in the world. True! And that is why yet another terrorist activity cannot be quoted as a reason to go on war with another nation. The Government needs an attack on a 'different scale' to do such a thing. Twin tower attack killed thousands and US needed that much of an impact to go on war against terrorism; and unless a mass scale brutality like this is let loose, there is no way a war can be planned. I don't mean that ALL terrorist attacks that ever happened in India are organized by our own Government and I know for a fact that they were not. But in this case, everything seems too different and naturally my inferences differ too...
I'm not a supporter of Islamic fundamentalism in anyway and if you go through the rest of my posts, you'd know that I'm actually at the other end of the line. But even if we decide to crush all these forces and establish our borders back to what they were, the war should be waged with honor and straight forward patriotism; and killing innocent civilians for that purpose is too much for me to take.
In short, Islamic fundamentalism should be crushed with an iron hand; and terrorists should spend every moment of their life crying for being what they are. But if this whole thing was planned for the purpose of waging a war, I feel it's going too far than what is required. Btw, I will read the book for sure! :)
@SLN
The parliament attack is noway close to this maappu... It was spotted in no time and the entire plan was crushed in no time too. In this case, it's not just a couple of AK 47s we are talking about. They have been able to fight the commando force for 2 days non-stop... Imagine the amount of bullets it takes. Indian security may not be as good; but had we been this insecure, Pakistan would've invaded us ages back. Now that this has happened, I'd definitely not be against the government going on war with Pakistan; because there should be some reasons these innocent souls parted. Perhaps, we suddenly realized Hindu dharma and agreed that in a process of saving a nation at war, it is inevitable to lose a few lives!
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/alqaeda-wants-pak-to-divert-army-to-indian-border-journo/79365-2.html
This gives a different perspective of the issue
Well, WAR would have a different opinion from every person ... to me it felt "naturally reactive". The first thing we need to attend to is our own security and intelligence. When that is the strongest, we can think of the rest
It would not be long before India would becomes an economic superpower. When it does attain that status, every country in the world will be all ears to our problems. And our problem becomes the world's problem. Things are then taken care of, by itself
Smiles,
Vinayak
True maaps... I just hope India doesn't take the US path of hypocrisy and double games to get to that position! :)
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