Evidence & Punishment

ISI backs Al Qaeda: British Intelligence,

This is predictable. Now Indian media will flaunt this as a evidence that Pakistan supports terrorism. If the next news cycle doesn't kick in, it might be turn into a gleefest as well.

I admit, I find this puzzling. The so called "evidence" is required for whose satisfaction exactly ?
Surely, not for Indians or at any rate those who have been in touch with real world during last decade (rules out most of the progressives and few journalists turned bloggers I admit, but we are talking about reasonably sensible person, not those who have leaped off the cliff of reality).
It would be beyond absurd if Indians require convincing at this juncture.

But of course the evidence is not meant for Indians, it is meant for west in general, and Uncle Sam in particular. And at least to me this is truly astounding. Presenting evidence to USA implies that we expect them to save our skin. This kind of idiocy is only the result of ideological bankruptcy. In real world, which is invisible to those living within thick walls of moral equivalence & Utopian ideals, but which is what matters; the very simple rule is, everyone is on his own.

If India thinks that terrorism is a significant threat (as opposed to a platform to launch libertarian rant about traffic signals being worse than terrorism) then it is up to Indians to evolve a solution. No one will be coming forward to take the burden off our shoulder.

We should have the capability and the willingness to punish those whom we find as perpetrators of crime against Indian citizens.

AfterThought : There is another issue involved, demanding US to solve our problem and at the same time criticizing that country for crimes (real and imagined), pretending poverty to be intellectual (or spiritual depending on which side one stands) superiority as opposed to American hedonism is not only hypocritical or delusional, it is beyond pathetic.

It is my speculation that a man's worst enemy ,more often than not, is he himself.
Same goes for civilizations. Today the only power that can stop India is not US, China or Pakistan. It is our own moribund world view.

Update: gems of posts from Nitin.