Goofing off & 9/11

Taking priviledge of my new found status (of unemployed/in transit youth), I watched 10 movies in 2 days.
Since my taste runs from indifferent to absurd, I will not bother with description of my follies. However there is one movie I can recommend, Flight 93.

Better people than myself have written a critique of the movie, so I will not even attempt deconstructing the movie.

The reason I liked the movie was because it shows in stark, without any attempt to soften the bitter blow, that the peace, one of the greatest achivement of modern civilization, that we all take for granted is in fact very fragile.

The nature of Islamic terrorism is not for a homeland, it is not even for perceived unjustice on Muslims by non believers through out the centuries, when it comes to the core this Jihad is just another name for nihilism.

These brutes claim supreme truth by dogmatic adhering to scriptures written sometime in medieval age, but the very irony is that the tool of their despicable trade are a result of modern age which is a result of age of reason and skepticism, Many people claim the ongoing war on terror as clash of civilization, but this is most incorrect.

Because it is not civilization on both side, on one side we have wisdom which creates and on the other side we have this incoherent rage which seeks destruction not for sake of creation but just for its sake.

I remain optimistic that for sake of humanity it is the reason which will prevail.
However by looking at the this war has been fough concerns me.
America while fighting is just obsessed with symbols, it has created a demaenology somewhat due to its christian nature and can not think beyond Osama and Saddam.
While the truth is these despicable creatures are just the symptoms and not the disase.
If US wants to succeed it has to go beyond superficial.

India on the other hand acts like Hanuman in self-doubt over his ability to cross the sea or Arjuna putting down his arms and deviating from dharma due to his love for his relatives.
Our polity has internalized shallow pacifism and pontification (shallow it is, because we don't hesitate to be cruel to fellow citizens) as the ideals. The result is even as intellectuals are dishing out rhetoric, enemis of India are bleeding her by thousand cuts.

What is the future of a nation and her people who refuse to confront the truth either out of callousness or sheer mortification.