Mumbai mayhem caused by... Pakistan? No way!

Over Thanksgiving Break, my family and I were glued to the news coming out of India.  Several terrorists had taken over five-star hotels, a Jewish community center, and a movie theater.  My family was utterly shocked--but not so much at news coverage as the analysis.  There were a myriad of talking heads, including Deepak Chopra (a spiritual healer for goodness sake!) and several inept professors from our nation's leading institutions.  It doesn't take a Ph.D. from Harvard to figure out who was behind this attack: PAKISTAN.  I'm sorry.  I said it.  And I've been saying it since I heard the news.  Call me a racist, but you know what?  Today the media found out that they were from Pakistan, carrying fake British passports and student IDs.  Now I wouldn't be surprised if the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), Pakistan's biggest intel agency, were training them and providing these fake documents.

I'm not one for conspiracies.  I don't purposely look for alternatives, like government intrigue, to quench my thirst for curiosity because curiosity killed the cat.  I like being a live cat. But blaming these atrocious attacks targeting American and British citizens on Pakistan is relatively safe.  It's like betting big when you have pocket aces: I'd strongly recommend you do it.

A few days after the attacks the pundits started to criticize India's lax security policies.  That's just silly.  You build a bulletproof building, they'll use bombs.  Make it bombproof, expect a nuke at your doorstep.  If anything, they should be criticizing Pakistan's lax attitude towards these terrorists.  While coolly accepting billions of dollars in aid from America, Pakistan peddles to the needs of these terrorist organization.  I'm surprised it took the New York Times so long to find that one out.

If there's anything to learn from this, India should take up Pakistan's offer to help find these terrorists by asking where ISI headquarters is located and neutralize that target, for the sake of India and the world of democracy.