Time to act yet?

Initially the images splashed on CNN seemed like one of the umpteen number of terror attacks that have been happening in India and abroad. Note the tone of this sentence which described my thoughts. 'one more amongst the many'! Pathetic but anyway..!As the hours passed, I realized this was not just another attack. It slowly dawned upon me that this was much larger. The emotions i was feeling had visited me before. A September morning 7 years ago. As i watched the terror unfold, I was still hopeful of a speedy end. Nothing in the world at that moment would have convinced me that this was going to be just the beginning for 3 days of urban horror! What happened during the 3 days was absolutely eclipsed by the magnitude of emotions the incident had stirred up. We didn't read the newspaper, sigh in despair and go on our way. We did resume our daily duties but only after an explosion of frustration pent up in our bodies for long. Intelligence inputs ignored, antique rifles and faulty bullet proof vests for the police, Lackluster transport for NSG commandos making them 9 hours late......! What the heck is going on? Did institutions like RAW, army, navy etc fail or our 'elite' babus just were too wrapped up in their vanity to even pay heed to the warnings? I'm tired of words of bravado after every such horrific incident! 'We severely condemn this', 'we warn pakistan', 'India will be back', 'Nothing will stop this'! Bullshit! When will we ever act? and if someone acts it'll be hindu fundamentalists slaughtering innocents! Dont we have the guts to fight these misguided blood mongering vampires? Dont we have the resources?A nation of 1 billion could just watch in horror as a handful 20 something kids held an entire city ransom! can you believe that? Bangladesh army tortures returns mutilated indian jawans' bodies. What do we do? 'We severely condemn this'! A brazen attack on our nation's parliament which is supposedly under 'extreme security'! What do we do? 'Pakistan has a hand in it'! How the f--- did we even allow this? Why are we a reactive nation? Why cant we be proactive? in everything including sports!!We jump with the 'Damn Pakistan' slogan almost instantaneously! No doubt most of our terror originates there. But are the politicians masking their own ineptness by firing accusations left and right at them? They have shamed us in front of the world as a nation which just delivers dramatic dialogues while watching it's people perish. If it had been the US or Israel , the terrorists would have 'martyred' faster than they can spell Osama Bin Laden! India is ofcourse a soft target. We seldom react! We're a slumbering kumbhakarna! Just good for our IT, curry and Bollywood! Damn us! I understand we all equally deserve the blame. But taking cricket analogy, selectors can select the players, it is upto the guys to perform on the field. If we keep repeating failed selections though it entirely our fault. I hope we wake up before some more innocent people lose their precious lives!