Friday, November 28, 2008

Leave The Terrorists' Alone!

Now before you get the NSG, ATS, and the Army after me, just let me explain...

What I mean is lets just get these terrorists a one-way ticket to a God-forsaken place (the planet Mercury would be best) and let them be. Considering that they will never be content with peace and indeed the very notion of peace may be an anathema for them, at least they will rid the Earth of the hate and malice by gunning down one or the other faction.
India's own equivalent of 9/11 is being played out even as I write this blog. My heart goes out to the hundred plus families that will have to deal with the death of their beloved ones. Such bloodshed and hatred can only come from a deep sense of malice and ill-will from people who have slipped over the horizon of human feelings and emotions, and have transformed into demons.
In the face of such adversaries - who care nothing to wield lethal weapons and care even less at pointing these deadly weapons and snuffing our lives wholesale - how can peace survive?
The Mumbai attack is different than earlier attacks. Never before has India come face-to-face with terrorism of this nature. Well planned and co-ordinated, it seems that even the Army is "stopped in its tracks" handling this one. What is required for India to give a fitting reply to the terrorists and their handlers is a bullet in the center of their respective heads. I admire Israel for their stance on terrorism and I wish India would take a leaf out of their (Israel's) handbook on replying to terrorism.
My advice to the politicians would be to leave their chess-game of politics aside and show the nation they care by being out there at the site of trouble. The Israeli's offered help and we should take it. They are the best in the world at managing and thwarting such attacks. We should take their expertise and send the terrorists a fitting reply.
For thousands of years, India has never invaded another country and we Indians are proud of that fact. But honestly, times are changing and now India must flex its muscle and show the perpetrators of such dastardly acts that "ahimsa" will only go so far. There is a time for talks and then there is a time to go to war.
Look around you! The very air we breathe screams war in our faces. So be it. Let's take the war to the enemy's camp. At least we will have relative peace back home if the enemy is engaged on their turf. Peace is a distant dream for the world. If we cannot have peace in spite of our "peaceful" demeanor, it means that the time has come to give the enemy sleepless nights.
Take up arms! Beat all available ploughshares into swords and let's weed out the terrorists of this world. The fact is that the world is not big enough for the terrorists and us. Before the terrorists shoot us in cold blood, let us unite and kick their a***es off the planet...
Will someone please tell me how I can get a gun? If our politicians can't see the writing on the wall, at least, I want insurance for me and my family if we are ever faced with such situations which, as of today, is no longer a distant possibility.
I will not hesitate to shoot a terrorist if one crosses my way... To arms me hearties!

1 comment:

Sreya Dutta said...

Really distressing... and it is true that the govt. needs to 'wake up' to the situation at least now, or as i watching someone in a debate on TV right now say, that it happened in 1993, 2005, and now in 2008 we are still here debating on what we can do. If we don't do enough now, then some of us may be here in the next TV show to debate on the same topic in 2010!