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2006-07-12 India-Pakistan

Combined Kashmir-Mumbai death toll tops 174

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Posted by Fred 2006-07-12 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 James Lileks has thoughts on the bombing:

Death in India. Itll be interesting to see how much this atrocity registers in the West. Not much, I fear, and I doubt itll be added to the string of 21st century attacks - New York, Madrid, London. Itll be seen as mad people doing daft things in a strange crowded place in a part of the world where the trains always have nine thousand people hanging off the sides, and theyre like all totally about cows being holy.
The idea that this was an assault on a highly developed democratic civilization - which had the effrontery to prosper without the guidance of Sharia will probably be lost in a blur of oddly-named factions and Kashmiri hairsplitting.

When someone blows up the Tokyo or Moscow subway, therell be a thumbsucker on the front page: Coordinated bombings of Mass Transit systems: Is There A Pattern? The article will probably reassure everyone that while the bombings appear similar, the motives differed. And should the next attack fall here, itll probably be blamed on Iraq, since the intelligentsia seems to have concluded that the Iraq Theater has as much to do with fighting Islamic terror as invading Peru to root out Branch Davidians.

Posted by Steve">Steve 2006-07-12 12:01|| 2006-07-12 12:01|| Front Page Top

#2 Lileks is right, of course; he always is.

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Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2006-07-12 12:17|| 2006-07-12 12:17|| Front Page Top

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