Mumbai transport system is the latest to be targeted.
As the irritation of unthinking obscurantism continues, another urban space is disfigured and modernism takes another hit.
And now we're running out of things to say, as the obvious is becoming a cliché from overuse.
The Prime Minister of India declares that "No-one can make India kneel" and insists that those affected reacted with "courage & humanism". A commuter declares that "I will go on the train today again. I am not afraid of death".
So much the same as we've heard amongst the previous attrocities.
During WWII, both RAF Bomber Command & the Luftwaffe were encouraged to target the opposition's civilian populations, under the belief that it was possible to break the opponent's public moral and thus shorten the war. Equally, both sides bought into the notion that BEING BOMBED bred resilience, and brought out the best in the native people. Neither side saw any contradiction in this, convinced as they were that it was the OTHERS that lacked the moral fibre.
It appears that the citizens of the world are much alike, and therefore they need to lean on the same rhetoric to make sense of the atrocities before them. Equally, our young radicals share a passion for the rhetoric that suggests they too will emerge redeemed.
Maybe we should find an alternative to rhetoric.
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