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I can already see the grimaces.  “Oh God – here goes Phil with another foreign policy post.”  Sorry, but I can assure you that this has implications for our own nation.  You see, Islamic terrorists in India have just killed over 150 people and injured more than 300 in Bombay, India (where did Mumbai come from?).  And we need to ask ourselves what all of this means to us.

The Wall Street Journal’s editorial staff got it right -

We will learn more in the coming days how terrorists invaded India’s financial capital Wednesday night, killing more than 100 innocents and wounding hundreds more. But there are already two lessons emerging: The war on terror is far from won, and it is migrating to democracies with weak antiterror defenses.

They’re right, you know?  Under Bush and Chertoff, terrorists realized that they couldn’t pull that stunt here.  Yell and scream about Gitmo or the Patriot Act all you want, but when was the last terror attack on the homeland?  I thought so.  Now shut up.

Even Europe started to wise up after the bombings in Madrid and London.  They still have massive problems – especially the UK.  And they are still screaming bloody murder over Gitmo and “strong-handed” US tactics in dealing with terrorists and terrorist threats.  Again, I say – “shut the f- up.”

So, al-Qaeda is moving to other nations that they feel are easily penetrated – India being one of those.  Don’t believe for a second that this is poor Muslim dudes concerned about the plight of Kashmir.  This is an orchestrated plot by Islamofascists to hit democracies in any way possible.  The fact that they targeted Westerners and Israelis in Bombay betrays their intentions.  The US, Europe and Israel have nothing to do with Kashmir.  Yet they were targeted.  Numerous Europeans, 2 Americans and 5 Israelis can be numbered among the dead.  And the places targeted by these thugs included a Jewish Center as well as hotels and restaurants frequented primarily by Westerners.

The WSJ editorial faulted India’s government for the attacks while chiding them for blaming Pakistan for the continuing terror problems that have plagued their nation.

A lack of political leadership is to blame. Yesterday Prime Minister Manmohan Singh promised that “every perpetrator would pay the price.” Yet his Congress Party has done little more than bicker with its coalition allies over the past five years on how best to fight terrorism, as Sadanand Dhume writes here. Or it has tried to deflect responsibility by blaming Pakistan. It may pay a price for its incompetence at the national polls next year.

I am not overly versed on Singh’s government although I suspect very strongly that the Congress Party has not committed enough resources to monitoring and fighting terror.  It’s hard to argue that point now given this and numerous bombings that preceded this event.  But I will say that India has every reason to blame Pakistan.

I once called ex-Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf “our (America’s) little despot.”  We were forced to deal with him as long as he kept radicals in check.  And then, when it became apparent that he was losing his grip, I was hopeful that Bhutto and her pro-Western allies would change things for the better in Pakistan.  Apparently I was overly optimistic.  The Pakistani military, overrun with terrorist sympathizers, has refused to deal with the lawless elements in Waziristan.  And the government, in a fragile coalition with Sharif’s Islamist-leaning lawmakers, has refused to push the military out of fear that they may lose power.  What the hell to do about Pakistan?

I can guarantee you that Pakistan is not only important to the War on Terror, I can tell you that Pakistan’s frontier bordering Afghanistan is most likely the root of half of the world’s terror and 2/3rds of India’s problem.  Yet nobody will do anything about it aside from the occasional US cross-border strike on high-profile targets.  Why?  Because Pakistan is toting nukes, and everyone is too concerned about their “sovereignty.”  Screw that.  People are dying.

So what does Bombay mean to us here in the West?  It means that al-Qaeda is gearing up again.  They are trying to rebuild their infrastructure and support via bloody demonstrations of force such as that seen in Bombay.  They are likely funneling millions through this farce involving the Somali pirates (my own conspiracy theory).  al-Qaeda is on the rise, and they are ready to hit here again.

This attack may well give us the 4th installment of a war between India and Pakistan.  If so, it will be frightening given the fact that both countries are nuke-ready.  This might be the last major foreign test of the Bush administration and/or the first major test of the Obama administration (it still hurts to say that).

So, what have we Americans done to deal with these types of threats?  We elected a terrorist-comforter as President who, in turn, names an utterly unqualified and inexperienced Arizona governor to secure us against these threats.  Janet Napolitano will be in over her head and has no, NO experience in dealing with this type of threat.  I hope Barry Hussein Obama reconsiders.

In the meantime, we can only hope for the best and pray that this “chicken doesn’t come home to roost” (as a famous religious figure once claimed).  Terrorists got a boost with Obama’s election.  If we think they will confine themselves to India and Somalia, we are sadly mistaken.  And this event only underscores the threat we face.  Fear is a good tactic sometimes and usually a great motivator.  You should all be afraid – very, very afraid.