“The Pune blast was not the result of any intelligence failure but an 'insidious' planting of a bomb in a 'soft' target establishment, Union Home Minister P Chidambaram said.”
Whoa, not so fast Eddie!
If this is not a failure, I shudder to think what would an actual intelligence failure be.
Maybe we are being too hard on the old guy. Maybe this was a success after all. Maybe they alerted the local authorities a couple of days in advance. Nope that did not happen. Maybe they asked prime targets in Pune to be on the alert. That did not happen either.
Maybe they did warn the old, respected home minister in time for him to take cover under his desk, in New Delhi. Probable.
For the benefit of those who are linguistically challenged, like yours truly, ‘insidious’ means ‘beguiling’, ‘treacherous’ and ‘producing serious harm’. This proves that the home ministry is hard at work to come up with (not plans to counter terror attacks) better worded statements post the mayhem.
We need to give credit where it is due. And it is definitively due here. We were not dished out the stale “I salute the indomitable spirit of the people of City X”. This is a bigger relief than you think, by the way!
Yet another IIT graduate lay dead, while our intelligence agencies celebrated their ‘success’ with the home ministry. Yet another terror attack, while ‘Aman ki Asha’ continues to spread ‘Asha’ through its song, dance and fart sessions!
3 comments:
pointless point is - we are the biggest morons after pakis..so anything goes.
when you don't have a functional system , you need to get lucky for getting your work done - so is the case of Indian Govt.
Mr. PC is happy thinking this was not a blast in Capital Buildings and people like me are happy thanking god it was not me..
Pointless point ... seriously
We are THE biggest morons!
We have the money to do something about it, we have the brains to do something about it, yet our democratically elected government chooses to do nothing.
I wonder how long will it be before our political parties make "What SRK said, puked or released" the headlines again!
Odd everybody admits we are morons and yet gently rebuke PC for pointing out the same. If we really are morons, as everyone above said, then that renders intelligence failure impossible.
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