It’s been two week since the attack on Mumbai, and all but one terrorists were killed, but I’m starting to feel that they actually won.
As far as I’ve heard, malls and grand restaurants, the kind where the attacks took place, are now almost empty and are forced to drop their prices and ruin their profit margins. I even got a couple of messages on my phone from people who haven’t spoken to me for years saying
“Do not go to malls or theaters in december due to terrorist threat. This is from reliable sources from the military and intelligence”.
I could recognize this as a hoax as any dickhead can send a message and the sheeple(hi reddit) would be scared nutless.
The trouble with predicting these kind of attacks is that you can’t. These are more or less random and useless to predict, and it certainly won’t be repeated again. Nevertheless, the Indian public is now in uproar, with the usual bullshit statements like we must take action, politicians are at fault, etc, etc.
People fail to see that the issue was largely due to poor and late response. If such a threat was in the US or Europe, fully armed response would be there within a few minutes. The crisis took several hours to resolve in Mumbai, and their guns locked up and weren’t powerful enough.
Good domestic intelligence, and fast response is, in my opinion, the best we can do.
Whenever I go through security checks at the airport (and nowadays even at temples), I make it a point to ask how many people have been caught trying to sneak in with weapons, the answer to which is always none. Political policies, cooperation from religious heads, and a stricter United Nations would do more good than a good frisking ever will.
But now nobody trusts anyone else. Everybody are always a little concerned to step outside, and fear reigns supreme.
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