One can replace Pearl Harbour with 9/11 and the below analogy will still hold. I wonder how we can justify this to next generation. Excerpt from Raman's blog : Day of Infamy.
The Japanese Pearl Harbour attack lasted just a few hours.
The LET attack lasted 60 hours plus.
The Japanese attack targeted mainly military installations and personnel.
The LET attack targeted only civilians---Indians and foreigners.
The ISI-sponsored LET attack was as treacherous as the Japanese attack.
And as dastardly.
And how did we react?
As a nation?
As a people?
As a political class?
As we have always done.
Brave and indignant words in the beginning.
And a subsequent reluctance to translate the words into action.
The day of infamy on December 7,1941, changed the history of the world.
And our own day of infamy of November 26,2008?
Has it changed the history of the sub-continent?
Have we created the fear of God in the minds of Pakistan and its terrorist surrogates?
Have our reactions made it certain that there will not be another 26/11 in our history?
Far from it.
Far, far,far from it.
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