Terrorists are completely despicable human beings. There are a lot of people who are despicable, and many of them have good reason to be. Sometimes, terrorists have valid reasons for feeling the way they do. But with the picture below, I hope to explain why terrorists are so despicable:
This guy drove me from St. Andrew's College to Home the other day. We didn't communicate much--I don't speak Hindi, except for a few rudimentary phrases. But he was nice. He smiled at me when I got out of his cab, and didn't give me strange looks when I took random pictures of him and his rickshaw and the street around it. And people like him are killed in terrorist attacks. People who are completely unrelated to Terrorist Group X's issue. That's sick. I understand that terrorists are driven towards sickness, but that does not justify the death of civilians.
To me, that's why terrorism and war are so contemptible--attacking civilians who cannot do anything about the issue might get the attention of governments, but not their cooperation, and I can't think of any way it would be justifiable. Fact is, the governments are probably paying attention to the issue anyway. Why should civilians be attacked? They are pawns in some old, overplayed game. "War on terror" combines the two, which is unimaginably awful. And despite wishing that all this could end, in Mumbai know (where, thankfully, it seems to be dying down), it's clear that humankind will continue to attack itself like this.
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