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...Since the terrorist attacks in Mumbai last week, journalists and public intellectuals in the West have been quick to tell their Indian counterparts that India did not, in fact, just experience their own 9/11. Cambridge University professor Priyamvada Gopal wrote in The Guardian yesterday, that “describing last week’s attacks in Mumbai as India’s 9/11 diminishes both that carnage and the atrocity in New York seven years ago.” It was just typical domestic political subterfuge, or no more than the usual conflict with Pakistan. But for Indian citizens, those...
...most likely not about to witness an invasion of Pakistan. This is not simply because India holds less clout internationally than the United States did eight years ago. It is because the current Indian administration will continue to frame this crisis in terms of typical Indian-Pakistani conflict, involving rogue Pakistani extremists, rather than link it to the global backlash of radical Islam against Western modernization, or the possibility of terror sanctioned by the Pakistani state. Also, most citizens want to avoid a repeat of the Bush administration’s hastily-designed War on Terror...
...precise truth of the matter matters little. The facts may never be uncovered, and certainly never released to the public. Faced with an election in May, the Indian National Congress, currently in power, will never attribute the deed to Indians, be they anti-modern Indian Muslims in a global terror network, or Hindu extremists funded by BJP. They will continue to blame rogue Pakistani nationals, but not the Pakistani state. Even if the assassins weren’t really rogue Pakistani Muslims, public discourse will remain framed in terms of Indian-Pakistani security relations. By blaming rogue extremists, the usual...
...coming weeks, the Indian government should not perpetuate comparisons with 9/11, no matter how much the Indian populace feels it is has been hurt. Otherwise, it will find itself surrounded by newly angry anti-Western neighbors. Mahhoman Singh should consider how India would look as the next injured giant lashing out at enemies it can’t see or mired in war for the during election season. Ironically, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has already linked the Lashkar group to al-Qaeda. India would do best to steer as far away from that route as possible...
...Pakistani intelligence service as key to resolving a problem it had a strong hand in creating. Nor is the ISI's current orientation entirely unambiguous: the CIA recently confronted Pakistan with evidence of direct involvement by elements of the ISI in a July terror attack on the Indian embassy in Kabul. In response to the pressure resulting from the 2001 India parliament attack, the Pakistani security establishment appears to have tried to stand down some of the its key militant proxies, rather than entirely disabling and eliminating them. A number of analysts believe the LeT then moved beyond the control...