Foolish Question: "Mumbai's Trauma: How Quickly Will Recovery Come?"

Today's news brings a foolishly short-sighted question:  Mumbai's Trauma: How Quickly Will Recovery Come?

Soon enough, the buses will roll, telephones will ring, and everyone will return to work.  There will be no "recovery," however, until the sources of these terror attacks are hunted down and destroyed.

What kind of "recovery" can Mumbai possibly have if the butchers who planned this vile attack remain free to launch additional attacks on innocent civilians at will?

The cancer of Islamic terrorism has already metastasized to almost every country on earth.  Killing the tiny band directly carrying out the Mumbai attacks was necessary, but was expected and planned into the attacks.  It has nothing to do with the underlying problem.  To kill the immediate perpetrators is merely to hit the pause button.  It is not the end game.

This wasn't the first attack and it won't be the last.  If India wants to "recover," it will take a sustained military, law enforcement, and intelligence effort, on its own and in cooperation with other nations of goodwill.  It will take a long-term effort at least partially resembling the all-out effort George W. Bush has led on America's behalf for the past seven years.

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On Dec 5 the Supreme Court will either allow or disallow the usurpation of both the Constitution and the Government of the United States — easily the most pivotal decision since our nation’s founding — and the silence of the news media is deafening (if not downright scary).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqH7rSHcvgU