I wasn’t going to write about the blasts in Hyderabad (it would have been the same old, dreary thing) but then I read this gem in a link:
Sri Prakash Jaiswal, the Union Minister of State for Home said that the blasts were the handiwork of a terrorist group, “One terrorist group or the other, which is bent on destroying the unity of the country, is certainly involved in the blasts in Hyderabad.”
How perspicacious! We are so safe in the hands of such intellectually luminous politicians.
In the meantime, it’s being said that the blasts were not an intelligence failure (it rarely is, actually) as they had known since March that large amounts of explosives were being brought into the city. This The Hindu link says:
Indian intelligence has known since March 2007 that eight kilogrammes of military-grade explosive were delivered to an HuJI operative in Hyderabad. However, for its own reasons, the Congress government in Andhra Pradesh did not allow the kinds of aggressive and unpopular policing that the Central Bureau of Investigation and city police felt were necessary to secure the city.
Well, precisely for this reason I didn’t want to write about it. Even a child knows how terrorism can be tamed, but those who can, won’t do it for their political reasons.
It’s no use talking to the politicians and it’s no use censoring and criticizing people who do such things. The more you criticize them, the more sense of achievement they have and more encouraged they feel. I don’t want to use such language, but they only understand the language of destruction, and nothing less can work. It’s like the nukes: they work as a deterrence — we don’t like them, but they are a necessary, ineluctable evil. Similarly, you cannot talk sense to the fundamentalists and the terrorists. They will keep on coming up with thousands of reasons to blow up innocent people. You can only stop them by eliminating them.
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