Sharda Janardhan Chitikar, left, is consoled by a relative as she grieves the death of her two children in a terrorist attack while she waits for their bodies outside St. Georges Hospital in Mumbai, India, Thursday, Nov. 27, 2008. (AP Photo/Gurinder Osan)
by Frank James
As we Americans prepare for our Thanksgiving dinners today, it is with fresh awareness that evil is no respecter of our traditions or sensibilities.
The terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India have riveted much of the world and cast a horrible shadow. We are shocked but not surprised at the carnage caused by a previously unheard of group that apparently styles itself the Deccan Mujahadeen.
On this day of prayers, our thoughts and prayers include the people of India and the many victims of the mayhem, both Indian and Western.
After 9/11, a French newspaper headline said: "We are all Americans" in solidarity. Today, we are all Indians, especially we Americans who have experienced epic terrorism too.
Comments
Does the timing of this attack seem at all fishy?
Does the timing of the 'be very afraid, NY' see, at all fishy?
Right when there is a movement to block Bush's pardons.....
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/act
now/385925?rel=hp_picks
Say, what's Blackwater having for Thanksgiving?
Posted by: Don't let Bush pardon the people behind all the mayhem--the Bush Admin! | November 27, 2008 9:19 AM
My thoughts are with the Indians going through this awful time, as we did a little over seven years ago.
I'll be interested to see what their response is to this attack.
Posted by: Op109 | November 27, 2008 9:41 AM
Epic terrorism indeed, Frank.
I hope we'll look at EVERYTHING with a much more skeptical eye.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index
.php?context=va&aid=8165
And, does it just strike ME as strange that India's chief of anti-terrorist police was killed in yesterday's attack?
Posted by: Say, where's Blackwater now? | November 27, 2008 9:50 AM
Okay--one more thing---the Bruce Ivins stuff is being reviewed in the press again---and we have more attacks and warnings of same.
http://georgewashington2.blogspot.com/2008/08/government
-framed-arabs-for-anthrax.html
Posted by: And now I'll shut up | November 27, 2008 9:55 AM
Today we are all turkeys.
Posted by: mort | November 27, 2008 11:02 AM
Wonderful. More killing in the name of God.
Posted by: Doug "Indian" Zook | November 27, 2008 11:23 AM
A reader made a comment to another Swamp entry that congratulated Bush for winning the war on terror. Some victory.
Posted by: Bruce Y | November 28, 2008 12:53 PM
Pakistan is living in the past, they need to wake up and get with the program. The majority of their citizens live in poverty, while the government spends billions on the military to accomplish ghastly endeavors such as these. I live in the US and always believed that you cannot paint people with a single stroke, but I think I no longer feel that way. Islam teaches intolerance, mayhem and murder. All the conflicts in the world have some aspect of muslim involvement. Its sad for me to say this, but all muslims are alike with their fanatic agenda. What will these people accomplish with violence, just hatred towards their people and their religion.
Posted by: raj | November 29, 2008 11:36 AM
Doug,
As compared to the kil;ling in the name of no God - see Stalin and Mao.
Posted by: Terry | November 29, 2008 2:04 PM