Girish Gangadharan

A 9/11 for the US. A 7/11 for India.

// July 12th, 2006 // Miscellaneous

You know what i don’t understand? What exactly were these terrorists thinking when they hatched a deadly plan like this? Not just this one but every single attack on innocent people. 9/11, 7/7, Madrid blasts and all others that have killed scores of innocent people. I mean…what exactly are they planning to achieve here? Force the world to take a look at them, so that they can present their case with a now-that-i-have-your-attention clause?

In case, you are one of those Jihad a-holes reading this, let me explain something to you here. I’m not going to tell you that there are better alternatives to solve your problems because i know that you know them already and still have chosen to murder unsuspecting, unarmed human beings, foolishly hoping that it would advance your political desires. But what i will ask you is something that has been on my mind forever. If you don’t like a country’s international policies, why don’t you try to deal with the people that actually are responsible for them, for example the politicians who framed the policies, huh? That’s the most logical thing to do, don’t you think? They are the leaders and they make the decisions. The public doesn’t have too big of a say in it. If they did, the US would have never gone to the war in Iraq. You remember all those war protests, right? People here are still protesting, but the Bush government hasn’t withdrawn their troops yet and i don’t see that happening any time in the near future either.

So my point is, if X does something wrong (according to you), don’t kill Y for that. What did the civilians do? Why kill them? What’s your point?

“You people put those politicians in power. So you have to be punished for that. That’s why we are going to kill you and your family.” – Guess that’s the justification your single-cell brain can come up with.

No man. That doesn’t make sense at all. That’s not how it is supposed to work.

There’s a reason why there is so much security for all those powerful politicians because they are the ones that run the government, rule the country, do what’s best for the people and understandably face threat from terrorists inside and outside the country, who think that they are responsible for their own problems, which may be true. But don’t take it out on innocent people for heaven’s sake.

Now time for the million dollar question that’s been hovering over the Indian minds all over the world – What has Indian government done to avenge these kind of attacks? When the United States was attacked on 9/11, the whole world was shocked. This is not the diplomatic fake shock that international leaders express when there’s a huge tragedy in a 3rd world country, that i’m talking about here. This is the true shock in every sense of the word. How could someone do this to America? This is arguably the most powerful nation on the planet. How’s the American State going to respond? And boy, did Uncle Sam respond! They knew Osama Bin Laden was the mastermind of 9/11 and they also knew that he was the leader of Al-Qaeda that had its roots and headquarters in Afghanistan. They took out the whole country. Call it surgical strikes or clinical attacks. Call it hell! They ripped the country apart in 3 months and installed a puppet government and also “restored democracy” there. WOW!

They didn’t stop at that. They beefed up security measures within the US and increased CIA operations worldwide for better intelligence. “Random” checks(always the brown guys) at the airports increased and put people at discomfort. But the government didn’t care. They had learned their lesson and will not allow the mistake to happen again. Recently the FBI foiled the preparation for another attack on the American soil well ahead of time because they had the intelligence reports and caught these guys red-handed in Florida.

What a great nation! Forget Iraq for a second. And think about how much the rulers care about their people and how much they value their lives. Just look at the domestic governance. It’s unmatchable.

Now look at India. Since the Mumbai blasts in 1993 that left 257 dead, there has been multiple attacks in Mumbai alone and this is not taking into account all the other attacks in Kashmir, Srinagar, Varanasi and the notorious Parliament attacks in 2001 etc. What has India done to avenge the deaths of over a thousand people in these horrifying blasts? NADA!

Dawood Ibrahim – the SOB behind 1993 Mumbai blasts is in Pakistan and even though the Pak. government vehemently denied this, he just embarassed them by having a big wedding for his daughter in Pakistan, who married the son of Pakistan’s top level ex-cricketer Javed Miandad(this guy played in 6 world cups and is considered a hero on their soil).

India mobilized its troops on the border after the Parliament attacks in 2001 by Pakistani terrorists but stopped due to international pressure to avoid a nuclear war in Southeast Asia.
That’s the closest we have come to waging a war against terrorists in recent times. We can defend ourselves if attacked but we’ll never take the offensive. We’ll never say – “Enough of this bullshit. That’s it. We are taking you down.” You know why? Because Indian lives are not invaluable. Sure…some people die everyday in heinous attacks like this. So what? Who cares? We need peace and harmony. Waging a war is not a walk in the park. There are so many things to take into consideration. Blah..blah..blah.. Sure i buy it. You have your own reasons, sir. Until you are ready to stop this once and for all, we’ll keep losing our fellow men, women and children. No problem.

After all, we are a land of Ahimsa…right? Non-violence is our motto. Wonder what Mahatma Gandhi would have done if he were alive.

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