What's interesting about the attack in Mumbai...

[conuly]

Is that there aren't more people posting about it.

174 people confirmed dead.

Even if India is so far away you only feel sympathetic in the abstract, I'm rather surprised that so few people are posting. If nothing else, the potential implications for the US (which isn't far away to me, at least) are less than good. (Hey, anything to justify another war, right? I can see that coming up somehow, somewhere.)

Comments

[wodhaund.livejournal.com]

Holy fuck, I hadn't even heard about this.

Thanks for the link, I have to show my roommates now.

[prezzey.livejournal.com]

The what, I apparently went to sleep just as it hit the news. Ugh. This is especially nasty given that India was in a recent Time cover story that I've just read the other day, and it had a two-pager on the current situation in Mumbai... I wonder how much of it is going to change, because the article strongly echoed some that I've read on the topic pre-1989... I thought, maybe some things never change, but who knows what's going to happen now?

Hmm, if the terror attack was timed to the G8 summit, it's no surprise, they didn't try it where the summit was actually held, St. Petersburg must have a surprising amount of security given that strong measures were set up recently for the 300th anniversary, a few holes must've been sealed back then, protocols set up, etc. and more importantly, Russia is known as hunting terrorists down mercilessly, so you might not want to pull her whiskers.

[wodhaund.livejournal.com]

Holy fuck, I hadn't even heard about this.

Thanks for the link, I have to show my roommates now.

[prezzey.livejournal.com]

The what, I apparently went to sleep just as it hit the news. Ugh. This is especially nasty given that India was in a recent Time cover story that I've just read the other day, and it had a two-pager on the current situation in Mumbai... I wonder how much of it is going to change, because the article strongly echoed some that I've read on the topic pre-1989... I thought, maybe some things never change, but who knows what's going to happen now?

Hmm, if the terror attack was timed to the G8 summit, it's no surprise, they didn't try it where the summit was actually held, St. Petersburg must have a surprising amount of security given that strong measures were set up recently for the 300th anniversary, a few holes must've been sealed back then, protocols set up, etc. and more importantly, Russia is known as hunting terrorists down mercilessly, so you might not want to pull her whiskers.