Terrorist strike Lahore

[acid911 ®]

Originally Posted by An_igma

@ AK & acid911

You’d prefer a scene with all Jawans crying over the dead bodies of their martyred companions? It’s always good to see these Jawans in high spirits after they were attacked rather than watching some frightened or traumatized faces. Stop being overly cynical.

Well I was about to reply, but AK did a much better job of summing it up than I ever could. It's not about being cynical, we are in a war. No matter what we do we can't afford to celebrate until and unless we win and root out the extremest elements once and for all.

We didn't have all this Taliban shtick and this blow-yourself-up extremism 10, 20 years back, and hopefully we won't have it next year if the operations go well (big IF, though). And after that, still, it probably won't be a time of celebrations (with thousands already dead even up till now). Innocent lives lost anywhere doesn't warrant celebrations, at least not for me. We can't even care for people who were killed on May 12, the lawyers burned alive in Karachi (I remember reading an article about one family of one of those lawyers, the kids don't even have enough money to buy books for school).

Heck, I would have gladly given Rs. 1,000 for those kids every month for the time until they finished their studies), but I don't live in Karachi, and it certainly is not easy for me to go find them. What would it amount to, huh, one less McDonalds visit a month for me. Heck, there are a lot of people who live close to them, and for all the celebrations (out pathetic media does), they and the general public can't either. Where are our NGOs now, huh? At best the government gives Rs. 100,000 for each one dead (and even then the cheques they give bounce from the bank, it's just kaghazi-karawai). Bunch of losers, really, these guys.

Point being, maybe there will come a time for us to go back and think about how we got out through this war on terror, but it is not this time. It's pathetically premature to celebrate foiling an attack when 28+ people have been killed. Beside,s technically speaking, we didn't foil it, we just survived it. Thanks to some very brave people in the army+police. Salute them yes, but the valid reason for me to celebrate would have been if we avoided this attack completely, or with no serious damage, casualty and loss of life and limb.



PS. A brave solider (Jawan) should get enough motivation and high spirit, seeing one of his comrade dead or injured, motivation enough to face and fight the enemy and kill its heart out. Problem is not the enemy but traitors among us who support these terrorists and extremists. That's what brings the morale of the army down.