Settling Dust

There is as of yet very little information on the details of the Mumbai terrorist attacks, so I won't really comment on the implications or the causes of them yet. The first funerals of the 195 dead have started.

This doesn't look to be the seismic event that 9/11 was, despite the fact that a fair number of people from the First World died, too. What is especially tragic is how this many people would never have died were it a hotel in Belgium or London that was besieged, just as an earthquake that is a minor inconvenience in Tokyo or Beijing will kill thousands in Pakistan or rural China. Ten youths with a few hundred rounds and some grenades should never have been able to kill hundreds and stall the military might of one sixth of the world's population.