Wednesday, July 13, 2011

What's going wrong

Again! Again! Again! When will this proxy war come to end? Again Mumbai is hit by terrorist attack. Again there was bloodshed. Again there was rambles-shambles everywhere. Again someone has lost some of there dear ones in the most unnatural way possible. Again the nation is brought down to its knees to pick up the remains of the innocents. Again the tears wash down the blasted away streets. Again we feel powerless to stop it from happening. 

What is happening here? Why we are not able to capture the terrorists or there plans? Is our Intelligence not working properly? I am worried that within days I will hear the news that Intelligence had already put the government in high-alert regarding this attack. Then what must have gone wrong?

Is government not capable enough to round-up the armed forces to fight this or not interested in get moving?
I will like to believe that even though our government is very corrupt and will like to extract money to the last extent possible, but it has not taken the shape of dictatorship that will let the innocents die as long as they can mint money out of it. So if my belief is true, then does that mean we are lacking in the armed forces or capabilities to round these up?

I recently read that Mumbai police force alone consists of 40K+ employees (includes all ranks of people). That excludes there network and sources that are not in police-force. More than 40K people guarding 603.4 sq. km of Mumbai. Even if we consider there is a considerable hierarchy and there are roughly 20K people to man 603.4 sq. km, we still have 1 police officer for every 0.03 sq. km (a block of size 0.1km * 0.3km). Is this a really big area for a policeman to guard? I don't think so. So what is missing here?

When we have a discussion over coffee table, I said that it is difficult to fight terrorism in India because the terrorists look like rest of us, they live like rest of us and they are one of us. Everyone says West fights the terrorism brutally. The reason is the people involved in the terrorism are from different race and have different life-style that can be easily tracked. The rest of the people laughed at the thought. They says that the reason we are not able to fight the terrorism because the people who are responsible to guard us are either apathetic and not willing to do so, willing to do so but not allowed to do so by people not willing to help so for some personal, pathetic and very shallow gain. 

I am not sure what is stopping us right now from stopping these terrorists to play games in our country whenever they want. I just want system to be strong enough so that we all can say boldly and confidently - Never Again! Never Again anyone should conspire against the country. Never Again people will try to bend or blackmail the government with such pathetic tactics. Never Again!! Never Again!!! Never Again!!!

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