Please also go through an interesting article in New York Post by Ralph Peters (December 1, 2008).

The American writer in his piece ‘Devils in Mumbai’, seems to have taken much cue from your views. Does he subscribe to your feed!

Here are the excerpts:

“As few as 10 terrorists armed with simple weapons tormented one of the world’s most vibrant cities for three days, inflicting 500 casualties – nearly 200 of them dead. No commandeered airliners were involved; no massive bombs, no radioactive material. All it took was one squad of committed-unto-death terrorists with assault rifles, grenades and a few rucksacks filled with explosives. It also took sophisticated planning. The attack – on Mumbai’s hotels, restaurants, main train station and a Jewish center – unquestionably involved an infrastructure behind the trigger-pullers. It wasn’t locally concocted. Islamist extremists hate India as deeply as they hate the United States. Those terrorists didn’t strike Mumbai because they couldn’t reach New York (although many others would like to), but because they wanted to harm and humiliate India. The terrorists had several goals: First, they just wanted to hurt India. Second, they wanted to embarrass the Indian government. Third, they wanted to damage India’s strengthening economy. The attacks on the hotels weren’t just to scare away tourists. The underlying purpose was to frighten off foreign businessmen and investors – to make India seem unstable and incapable of protecting itself. One of the grievances shared by Islamist extremists throughout the region and Pakistanis in general is jealousy of India’s remarkable progress from economic basket case to a sparkling center of yuppie consumerism. While India remains a bitterly poor home for most of its citizens, a fifth of them have been soaring upward, while more than half have seen their lot improve. Meanwhile, Pakistan tumbles ever farther behind, unproductive, paralyzed by corruption, torn by violence – and paying a grim price for restricting schoolchildren’s English-language instruction for two generations, cutting off the populace from the benefits of globalization. Indeed, jealousy is the great unacknowledged strategic factor of our time. Apart from being the world’s largest (if raucous) democracy, India shares a trait with the United States that infuriates Islamists shamed by the abysmal failures of their own societies: India is a success story. And Allah had nothing to do with it. You can’t reason with faith-drunk sadists. The terrorists who attacked New York City and those who struck Mumbai want to kill people. Slaughter is the only thing left that validates their faith.”

Leaders need fame, money and sex….

Years back ” God created man” …. Now ” Man creates God” ( Fortune prophet)

Besides, we have seek out and neutralize the breeding grounds of terror
within the country. Wherever you see some form of extremism being practiced,
it is a breeding ground for future acts of terror.

You see it isn’t a small thing that can be wished away. All of us have to
sacrifice a lot before things could improve. We need to sacrifice all kinds
of comforts that are obtainable by corrupt means. Can you imagine how big is
the list? Can you imagine how many of us have to sacrifice those before the
rest of the people would like to think of doing likewise? Would any one give
up a chance obtainable by corrupt means for School & College Admission,
Train Reservation, Tax Avoidance, Custom Duty Avoidance, Foreign Travel,
Government Job, Postings in a job, the list is endless but the concept is
clear. Sacrifice it or else!