Two more hours. I just put the foil over the bird. The house smells like turkey.Like you I am watching the news from Mumbai. The Twitter feed on Skynews is astounding. The tensions between Pakistan and India are going to be ratcheted way up. I suspect that the Indian government will issue the Pakistani government an ultimatum: Serve up the psychopaths who planned and coordinated this.
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But the obvious retort to any such ultimatum will be "Or what?"
India can't adequately control it's section of Kashmir, much less topple Pakistan's government and control that country. The outcome from attempting that would be chaos that is much, much worse for terrorism in India. Not mention the casualties of a major war (with a nuclear armed govt.)
So that leaves some sort of limited response. Also just kicking the hornets' nest. India has no good options to respond.
Mike is right. India could invade Pakistan and (assuming nobody was insane enough to use nukes) take the country over. Problem is, they'd have a situation on their hands that would make Afghanistan and Pakistan rolled up into one after smoking a pound of crystal meth look like a walk in the park.
They can't do the traditional thing and destabilize the government. The real nutjobs would end up in power and wouldn't have a problem using the afformentioned nukes. So they really are kinda toast.
They can't negotiate a peace with whack jobs. That doesn't work and only leaves power vacuums for new even wackier nutbergs to take the old guards place.
The only thing they can do is watch their internal security and borders like crazy and prepare for more of the same.
Flickr feeds I found: http://flickr.com/photos/vinu/ -- page 4, photo 7 is a very moving photo
And http://flickr.com/photos/shanbhag/
Sujeet, jaggy, and shahpriya tweeting hostages being released.
I actually took the day off from news addiction and enjoyed family.
I am sorry I logged onto the Internet tonight to read this. Good God, will the bad news never end?
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