stop the blame-game

been following the news on the Mumbai attacks quite closely. I'm quite intrigued by what many academics and writers have been saying on politics and reasons behind the attacks. I don't know if it's me or is there no solid stand on this issue, I feel that i'm unable to fully grasp the real motive of the attack and what the Indian government has been trying to do to help alleviate the situation, for now and in future. The only clear spot in this mess is the blame-game played by the Indian government.

I'm quite agreeable with an article i read in the Today's newspaper. As we all know, the Indian election is near, hence the writer was suggesting that the government were itself facing pressures to keep a clean record and so started the blame game, putting Pakistan as the scapegoat. True enough, as a reader of the news, I was led to focus on thinking if Pakistan did really have a hand in this and if the militants were really from Pakistan. This matter shifted my focus on the real issue: that it was the incompetence of the Indian government and its security forces that really led to this tragedy. So what if the militants were really from Pakistan? No matter where the militants came from, the very fact of the incompetencies in India's top officials directly led to the happening of such as event. It was said that the US intelligence did warn India that there could be an attack on its main business centers and landmarks through the sea route; however, the fact that such large scale attack and high casualty rate would obviously suggest that the Indian security officials did not heed this advice.

Furthermore, putting the blame on Pakistan and raising its security footing to 'war level' may 'backfire on the wider war on terrorism', as put down by the writer. By doing so, Pakistan threatened to revoke the 100000 troops from the western border who are committed to the war on terror. What this essentially mean is that the two countries are not fighting terrorism, they are fighting each other and at the same time, reducing their forces to combat terrorism. i think the terrorists would really applaud upon hearing such news. I'm seriously appalled at how a governments of nations can be so blinded by revenge and hate that they actually miss the whole point of the situation. Can't anyone see that what's crucial now is really to cooperate and nab the wanted? The aim here is to strengthen the already weak and fallable security network in both countries, and prevent future attacks (which was already announced by some terrorists) isn't it? Did they see how much sufferings and pain the commoners and foreigners went through, and all these is just due to their short of foresight and refusal to heed multiple warnings from different sources? I really don't understand... the world is too complicated.

I just wish that this blame-game would not escalate to another war between the two nuclear-armed countries. As if the world is not complicated enough, with the financial crisis just born and terrorism is of no way, under control.