Funny, if Israel or America is attacked just like that, we shoot first ask later whereas if India or Pakistan is attacked like crazy, we urge "peace". It was the US and Britain that got this terrorism started in the first place. Why isn't anyone calling for an abolition of the CIA which is involved? When Israel and America can "defend themselves", India can just as well do the same. Let India destroy Al Queda so the US doesn't have to.

I suspect that the Pakistanis got tired of burying their women and children
after Predators dropped Hellfire and damnation on them from the heavens.
The Beltway is too far to send a message but Corporate America's 'back office' is handy.

This incident needs to be fully investigated before any actions are taken. All the evidence should be presented to the international community. Criminals should be brought to justice. Calls for more violence are wrong and will escalate things.

This attack is obviously meant to appear like one thing, when it is really something else. The “experts” spout their two cents worth on the mind numbing, brainwashing mass media and trot out the usual buzz words, Muslim Extremist, Al Qaeda style, bla… bla… all feeding the agendas of their “masters” or in other words what the Financial/MIC who are divided only by their various factions of power with various axes to grind. So you are left to think only what they want you to think. But, these bits of info and half truths, sometimes deliberate lies, mostly speculation get you no closer to truth, but are excellent at firing up prejudices and antipathies, between religions, states, and peoples, and founding absolute convictions of righteousness, getting the flags waving, the words of gods and men quoted, country threatened, heroes praised….. That is called brainwashing.

What is absolute and certain is, America, Israel, Britain, India and Pakistan are all countries in which organized state and/or non state players working alone or together are cable and have in the past conducted false flag actions using non national operatives.

A lot of the information made available by the media so far has suggested that the attack might have been perpetrated by a previously unheard-of Muslim extremist group, working out of Pakistan, with possible connections to Al Qaeda (who ever they are?)… Etc. Well, it makes no sense. And, one would hope that the public is starting to get wiser to the fact that, in these types of events when all the “talking heads” seem to agree and are trying to tell you its one thing, you can more or less bet, they haven’t got a clue but are providing the “approved” smoke screen.

The only achievement (and perhaps the only goal) of this attack carried out with military preparation, training and precision has been to make Muslims more marginalized in India, strengthen the anti-Muslim religious based political groups who depend on bigotry and ignorance, causing further religious tension internallt and interfering with the rapprochement between India and Pakistan. That terrorism is devious, and seems like pointless violence is an understatement, but no such action is ever taken without calculating the full and far reaching consequences. None of these results could furthers any of the interests of any Muslim group in general or in particular… It makes no sense. (Saying they were aiming at British and Americans, also doesn’t make sense, they could have killed far more. They killed mostly Indians indiscriminately. Attacking the Jewish centre was deliberate, but could equally well have been a ploy, certainly forbidden under the Koran). Again, it does not make sense.

This is an age of mind wars, in which speculation, prejudice, innuendo, half truth, and double-speak is the currency and has been the death and destruction of millions mostly innocent, across Palestine, Lebanon, Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, Darfur, DR Congo, Chechnya, Kosovo, Georgia etc....

This blatant waste of life does not make sense, neither did 9/11, nor 7/7 nor Bali, nor any other similar waste of innocent life, commonly termed as terrorism, (a term originally used to define the actions of certain Jewish groups in Palestine). But, these events have all been used to justify, further use of violence, aggression and war. The beneficiaries of these events may seem quite surprising and out of place in retrospect. For example reading the comment from Benjamin Netanyahu, reported on April 16, 08 in Haaretz, "We are benefiting from one thing, and that is the attack on the Twin Towers and Pentagon, and the American struggle in Iraq," Ma'ariv quoted the former prime minister as saying. He reportedly added that "these events swung American public opinion in our favor."

I for one hope that the leaders of India and Pakistan could in fact use this terrible tragedy to reverse the effects, by coming together to jointly fully investigating, finding the real culprits, and unmasking the guys behind the curtain, and for a change, confound the perpetrators of this attack. Now, that makes real sense.

There is a very vicious and prolific commentator, a bigot called Clara Waters, posting comments such as follows, which appeared with a similar article in CD. I for one have flagged that comment and asked CD that this person be banned in future.

“If Muslims would quit being a bunch of rogue criminals and terrorists that they are and stop trying to impose their fascist shit on a secular democracy, then they wouldn't be in trouble. They're getting around to being the biggest welfare queens in the US and India and are even trying to suck it off in Europe by playing the victim game to rig the system any way they can. Hell, at times, they even make the worst rightwing evangelicals "liberal" in pale comparison.”

For my part I can happily ignore her and her drivel. I would invite others to do the same. Personally I cannot condone people using these forums to peddle their bigotry and hate and can only wonder if they are paid by the word. This is exactly the kind of thing that feeds divisions and violence between people.