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India: Where Is The Leadership?

Thursday, November 27th, 2008 @ 23:03 UTC

by Rezwan

Countries:: India
Topics:: Disaster, War & Conflict, Politics
Languages:: English

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Inde : Où sont les dirigeants ?...

Supriyo Chaudhuri at Sunday Posts analyzes why Mumbai has become easy target for terrorism, discusses the terrorists' motives and finally blames the leadership: “The politicians were amazingly ineffective. They had no idea what was happening. They did not share information. They did not show leadership.”

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Debashis

I honestly feel that in a country of more than a billion, it’s a tough task to identify terrorists who fear nothing and will stop at nothing to unleash their carnage. However, that doesn’t discount the fact that the present prime minister is weak and lacks leadership qualities.

# 2008-11-28 at 8:11 am

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