At least fifty five innocents have lost their lives in a string of dastardly bomb blasts in New Delhi.
The bombers’ motives are as yet unknown but the involvement of Kashmir-linked militants is a foregone conclusion.
Pakistan has condemned the attacks.
Immediately after the attacks, Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry issued an unusually strong condemnation. “The attack in a crowded market place is a criminal act of terrorism,” the ministry said in a statement. [link]
The world’s top public intellectual often offers the following recipe for reducing terrorism in the world: stop supporting it.
Of course, Chomsky’s jibe is intended for US policymakers. But the general principle holds. As does his following remark: You are responsible for the predictable consequences of your actions.
Not to say that I’m assigning responsibility for the bombings to the Pakistani state. Far from it. I think the foreign ministry’s statement is deadly earnest. But even though the monster of jihadi militancy that Pakistan nurtured over the years is no longer under its control, that inconvenient fact does not absolve Pakistan of all responsibility for the monster’s acts. Predictable consequences.
About the monster itself: what could these terrorists possibly want? What conceivable cause could be served by slaughtering innocents, ordinary people getting ready to enjoy Diwali and Eid? Murdering bastards. If I believed in god and hell, I’d hope they were rotting in it.
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