and to the guy who praised mumbai's resilient spirit --u just don't know anything .Do you ?? U must be a mah politician or u must be watching too much tv ...Most people risk their lives knowing that if they don't ,their spouses ,relatives wud die in hunger anyway ..
i just hope that mumbai doesn't rise from the ashes this time . it's the only way the politicos wud do anything ..
Incase you were referring to me, let me tell you that I'm definitely not a politician and I'm no stranger to the fear and confusion one experiences when terrorism comes close to hitting home. As far as Mumbai's resilience goes, without going into any details, I praised it not for political but for personal reasons, connected to the bomb blasts in Mumbai's local trains. Its really unfortunate(and shocking) that you had to witness terrorism first hand. It is not possible for anyone to imagine what you must have gone through. I don't want to get into any argument with you but I can tell you that even if Mumbai would not rise from the ashes, it will not change the attitude of the politicians(all of them irrespective of their political party) we have in India. All they will do, is move on to the next big city of India and continue to leech from it. As for Mumbai, come monday, Mumbai(and India) will be back to business.
An update on the pakistani angle, while he was in India and giving an interview, the pakistani foreign minister was trying to act righteous and on the question of the ISI chief visiting India, he said "blah blah blah
My govt. will extend all cooperation blah blah blah
Yes he will come!". Incase anybody missed it, the pakistani govt. has said that the ISI chief will not be coming to India, instead they will be sending a representative. Something must have happened in that meeting between the pakistani president and their army chief but I did not think that the great and noble country of pakistan would go back on its offer of
ALL COOPERATION. 
It's not just Mumbai, but every coastal city of India is under threat. If these terrorists can get in with such a huge cache of conventional weapons, then the only thing stopping them from getting a nuclear or a chemical weapon into Mumbai or any other coastal city, is that they have not been able to acquire such a weapon
yet. Considering pakistan's attitude and recent events, they don't need to launch a missile to nuke India anymore. Even
when such an attack happens pakistan will say since you don't have any "proof" that means we are not involved and our netas may buy that bullsh!t and stuff it down our throats. Maybe this attack on Mumbai could even be a test run of their new 'system' before the real attack. It's actually worrying to see no Indian politician(or the media or the intellectuals or anybody) reviewing the threat of nuclear terrorism in the light of the recent attack on Mumbai.
One way or the other India has to get pakistan to dismantle its nuclear arsenal. It has become far greater a threat to India(and the rest of the world) than whatever "Indian threat", which the pakistani military perceives as the reason for having nuclear weapons. If we wait till terrorists use a pakistani nuke against us(and then saying "see we have proof"), before pushing for pakistani nuclear disarmament, it will just be too late.
mrintech said:
Lets share them with us all and we will discuss it's consequences/possibilities/brickbats in a friendly manner and I bet you at last some consensus can be made/ some conclusion can be derived.
Agreed. To the cynics here, considering the times that we live in, its understandable to give in to cynicism but there is no need to infect others with it. If you want to provide a reality check, do so but do it in a manner that those who are contributing ideas, should be able to contribute without the fear of ridicule.
Plasma_Snake, are you serious or joking?
