Feeling Helpless

Am still to recover from the scenes of mindless violence in Mumbai. What has shocked me is the sheer cold-blooded manner in which innocent lives were cut short. Its one thing placing a bomb and leaving the place before the mayhem strikes, its another thing killing people and spending good 60 hours in the place where the victims lifeless bodies are littered. Not to say that bombings are better or worse than shooting incidents.

How do you fight these people who are devoid of remorse or guilt? Voice of reason does not seem to be an answer because these people seem to have a very different value system. Detection and prevention of such incidents is tough given the state of our political, intelligence and law enforcement agencies. An armchair enthusiast can come up with a plan to fight this menace but whatever said I find it very hard to be optimistic about fighting this new age terror in the light of systemic deficiencies that plague India

1. Highly unstable and weak governments in all neighboring countries (Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Nepal),
   
2. Large disenfranchised population in India
3. Multicolored social and religious fabric
4. Low IQ law enforcement personnel
5. Centralized power structure
6. Politicians interested in only guarding power and making money

The list goes on. For once i don't see light at the end of the tunnel. We are all safe until one dark day we find ourselves in middle of something like 26/11.