We Have Always Been At War And Have Just Refused To Acknowledge It
December 3, 2008 by krisdhingra
Filed under Analysis
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“Enough Is Enough”, we can’t take this anymore, no more words and no more promises. We want action. This seems to be the mood of the nation at the present moment, people are slowly beginning to realize that the political system with which they have lived with for the past few decades is completely incapable of solving the basic problems of the country. While there has been some development and growth in cities like Delhi, the security infrastructure of the country leaves much to be desired. The 26th November Mumbai terror attacks have been compared to the September 11th World Trade Center attacks in New York, with the Taj and Oberoi hotels being compared to the twin towers. The United States of America however took serious action against the attacks on them and established a new administrative unit that has maintained security in the country for the past 7 years.The Poll above asks you a similar question, do you think that 26/11/2008 will be a turning point for India ?
“Now that it has been established that the terrorists landed in Mumbai through the sea route, it is certain that the operation had been well-planned in advance and a number of warnings about the attacks had been ignored. We quote Admiral Arun Prakash, the former chief of Naval Staff in an excerpt from his article on the reason behind these attacks and how the government has not yet learnt from it’s previous mistakes.
No set of people could have walked off a merchant ship in Sassoon Docks or stepped out of a dinghy at Machhlimar Nagar and launched these attacks. This operation called for reconnaissance, logistics, communications, local support and perhaps even rehearsals; all requiring time. The number of persons involved, directly or indirectly, could easily run into dozens if not a hundred. It speaks of the abysmal depths plumbed by our police and intelligence apparatus that they failed to hear an underworld rumor or a whisper on the airwaves, or obtain any sort of warning at all. But that seems to be now par for the course in India. Soon after the July 2006 serial train blasts in Mumbai, which resulted in over 500 dead and injured, I attended a high level inter-ministry meeting to discuss this issue. After presentations, discussions and brain-storming lasting a couple of hours, a final question was asked by the Cabinet Secretary: what urgent remedial and precautionary measures should we take to prevent recurrence of such incidents? after a pregnant silence, the sole suggestion that came was voiced by a junior functionary:”We must give the SHOs at the thana level more and better quality walkie-talkie sets.” I was shaken to the core because of the pedestrian and worm’s eye perspective that it demonstrated; not high-technology, not intelligence, not weapons, but walkie-talkies! And this was in 2006, after the nation had been experiencing bomb blasts or terrorist attacks with monotonous regularity in the wake of the horrifying 1993 Mumbai carnage. The score today, of course, stands much higher.
What we have been facing for many years now, and continue to face, is an “asymmetric war“, waged by a ruthless and imaginative intelligence agency. This war has many dimensions; aiding separatism and insurgency, attacking our economy by pumping in fake currency, inciting communal violence, and undermining the morale and cohesion of the armed forces (often through the instrumentality of the Indian media) are some other facets of this multi-pronged assault by the Pak Inter-Services Intelligence agency on the hapless Indian State. Like ostriches with heads buried deep in sand, we have refused to acknowledge this asymmetric war. And full responsibility for this situation must be accepted by Indian politicians of all hues, who in their ruthless quest for votes and political one-upmanship have systematically undermined every instrument of state, and rendered the nation vulnerable” (Read here for more).
It is certain that the ISI is more of a terrorist organization than an Intelligence agency and they surely have the information necessary to weed out all kinds of terrorism from the world. The US, UK, Israel and India should together pressurize Pakistan to get the ISI to reveal all it’s secrets. The Indian government cannot let this go on and let a country like Pakistan, which was recently termed as an “International Migraine” by former US Secretary Of State Madelaine Albright (read here), go scot free yet again. It’s time to face the war and act like a country of 1 Billion+ Indians.
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