War On Terror: The terrorist assault on Mumbai is the latest clash between civilization and nihilism. From the Somali pirates to the Taliban, this is what the world would be like without America.
Mumbai (formerly Bombay) now joins London, Madrid, Bali, Casablanca, Baghdad, Fallujah, Washington, D.C., New York and a field in Pennsylvania as battlefields in the war on terror.
The motives and the identity of the perpetrators are not clear, but they don't really matter. The assault on freedom, democracy and civilization itself continues. India is a booming economic power rooted in democracy and capitalism and open to Western culture. These are reasons enough.
That the Mumbai bombings occurred on the Thanksgiving holiday may or may not be significant. We certainly can be thankful that the war on terror has prevented similar events here or a repeat of 9/11 since that tragic day the war on terror began.
