Nine One One

On this day 7 years ago, an act of hatred and religious extremism killed 2752 people in the world’s largest and arguably only superpower. It took less than two years for the victim country to fight back. Yet another act of hatred, and of patriotic extremism, killed over 1,000,000 people in the modern world’s longest and arguably stupidest war.

 

Every month, since whenever, my fellow Indians lose their lives to terrorism. Every other big attack seems to follow an unbelievably recent one while everyday shootings in the beautiful valley of Kashmir don’t even make headlines anymore. Tens of thousands of people in this multi-cultural land of Gandhi, have lost their lives for nothing. Yet I am proud my people haven’t and would never fight a “War on Terrorism”.

 

Is there a thing about war that justifies the orphans it leaves behind? What patriotism  renders life in own land more precious than death in another?

 

“Either war is obsolete or men are.” – Buckminster Fuller