Whom to blame?

While the 3 day high tension drama was being unfolded, people were glued to their television sets. For a few, it was a war but for the majority, it was a sheer act of barbarism. Yes, it was indeed a shameless act and people behind it should not be forgiven. But, now the real question is as to who is responsible for the terror attacks?Is Pakistan to blame? Or is it Al-Qaeda? Or we should point our fingers to US, which promoted these organizations at the first place?

Ask a common man, and he doesn’t hesitate to blame the politician. A politician in the opposition, blames the party in power. The central government blames the state government, and a leader of the state government maintains that “such small activities should not be given due importance in a big nation as ours”.

Agreed, politicians are the major culprits and they should even understand their responsibility and accept it. There was a very nice carton in TOI, some days back. It depicted Shivraj Patil as saying “Why should I resign, this time? This is not the first time, the country is struck with terror attacks.” Ha, ha, ha….

With recent reports coming up that, intelligence agencies were already apprized of the terror attacks, the government should have done something to avert the attacks. Even the task of beefing up security was left to five star hotel owners. In fact, it’s not with the Mumbai attacks. Every time the terrorist strike, reports came up that state government had already been warned of the attacks. Then, why didn’t they take enough measures to prevent them? Look at US. There had been a single attack over there, after 9/11 or for that matter in London after 7/7.

God help India ...