Scary business in Mumbai

Reminds us that India has long suffered these sorts of attacks, but these clearly target foreigners (UK& US).

I stayed at the Taj years back. Very nice place.

Hard to see how you harden for this level of attacks.

We have to see how this unfolds, but I would expect a strong Indian response.

Comments

[Javaid]

India is too porous a country to be able to insulate/vaccinate itself from this ( unlike say , the ME, as in Saudia Arabia or UAE /Kuwait which have sophisticated security apparatus and smaller populations and therefore have a pathway for dealing with either option...negotiate or exterminate)Therefore ...Pakistan , which is in the same boat need to somehow accomadate or heal some grievances with these people because a harsh response only feeds this terror.Pakistan holds the North=\West frontier province which its neighbour believes should belong to it ( Afghanistan)...this is the foundation stone / space that has allowed something like the Taleban to exist.Likewise, India holds Kashmir ,a territory that its neighbour believes should belong to it (Pakistan)..this is the foundation stone /space that has allowed to Indian Jihadist to flourish.Pakistan , Afghanoistan and India are all huge multi-ethnic confections that have internal partitions that will always lend themselves to this.Ce la vie.(?)

[Patrick Squire]

IF India can pin this on rogue elements within the Pakistani Intelligence community, it sure feels like a replay of Sarajevo, 1914.Lots of potential bad outcomes from this "Vertical Shock" to the system.