I was probably too upset and angry when i said i wanted to keep Gitmo open. My apologies.

What i meant was that Gitmo should be retained as a fear factor like Alcatraz where convicts went to serve their terms.

Instead of retaining Gitmo as a symbol of unlawful oppression, let it be an example of how convicted terrorists are sent to.

The same horrors of Gitmo remain (Dogs and all), but now meant for proven convicts judged by courts.

Your speech about Gandhi is right: Only that Israel doesn't believe in it and so US also doesn't believe in it. Why should India be at receiving end?

If these two countries could proactively hunt down terrorists, why should India remain passive?

On a totally unrelated subject, probably the Gandhi speech by one of the passengers on one of the jets flying into the Two Towers could have worked out well for you?

You don't negotiate under the barrel of a gun.

Well said.

It is more surprising because india is a practising democracy and a republic.

The Motherfuckers had a very good opportunity and have opportunity to express their feelings and choices in election, We had examples where long-term politicians have been defeated cruelly.

Instead these motherfuckers chose to gun down hundreds of innocents with absolute no regard to who they killed or not.

Each one of these guys AND their promotors should be renditioned to Gitmo and the waterboarded 8 times a day. At the end of 5 years they should be castrated while conscious.

Bush was right in opening Gitmo.

These so-called-terrorists do NOT deserve the due process of law the cushioned Federal or State prison where they can watch TV, listen to radio and dig up dirt.

For these guys, there exist Gitmo.

KEEP GITMO OPEN!

You are a proven lunatic or a colonial hangover who liked to have his bare brown ass baked by the indian sun.

Here we have over 100+ killed indiscriminately irrespective of religion, creed or nationality and all you can dig is colonial attitude.

Even now we have 7 separate independent channels ALL blaming corrupt politicians, dumb shit local administration, careless and poor planning and every other murderer who got his palms greased.

And we have 41 different national newspapers clamoring for every damn minister's resignation.

And we have 82 FM radio stations all interviewing and relaying random on-road comments on this and people's anger on this.

If there was any agenda of the terrorists, it was to probably take down as much as they can.

If there is any agenda of our stupid government in this, it is probably to let this one also slide and continue to act as if nothing has happened.

Its a good thing we have elections coming up in 5 months.

We have a pretty good idea whom to throw out and whom to bring into power.

And its a good thing for Pakistan that it is democratic now.

No. We won't. We are too wise to pass a PATRIOT, because we knew the sufferings we went through.

We also know how corrupt our politicians are and their absolute control over police to the effect a low state minister demands and gets 350 cops to protect her while citizens die on streets and hotels.

What we need to do is to modernize and reorganise the police along lines of US or Japan(better).

Right now politicians OWN the police in every sense(promotion, jobs and even salaries). As you know politicians are selfish and care first about themselves, then their family, then their own constituents, then their party and finally the country.

Cops can't act that way. Hence these kinds of fiascos.

Any PM/President who tries to modernize the police by passing acts that place them on merit basis rather than politician control risks being impeached or removed from power.

So the incentive to modernize is simply not there.

Let's hope the people demand modernization of police instead of succumbing to right-wing nuts here who bray for PATRIOT III.

There are significant differences between the Indian Police mode of operations and the US.

Indian Police is governed by the archaic colonial 1890's law which specifically prohibits the following:

1) No Central/Federal police agency. The law specifically prevents sharing of intelligence across states (British fear and now Indian).

2) No intelligence apparatus. The British police were mainly made of brawn and were used to break up anti-british protests. Now the same police is used to break up anti-government protests. Still no intelligence-gathering apparatus.

3) Political control of Police. The state-level police in India are controlled by political bosses. Even a lowly local legislator over-ranks the HIGHEST police officer in district. This is an indian invention which made sure elected officials control police. The intention was altruistic. But given the level of corruption in india, political control is a dangerous tool.

These three factors conspire to prevent effective intelligence gathering, sharing of said intelligence and acting upon any intelligence gathered unilaterally.

More laws like PATRIOT Act will NOT help India unless the police force is overhauled and political control removed.

Unfortunately, that is the last thing our politicians want and hence we are doomed to face more such attacks and react to them rather than prevent them.

God bless us.