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Sepia Mutiny writes:

While trying to deal with the tragedy in Mumbai, I have been wondering what the coverage of the story tells us about ourselves.

What has baffled me, however, is the relative silence from the world of blogs. The blogosphere is supposed to be the cutting edge, far more advanced than the MSM, yet they’re spending less time on the story.

Mutiny goes on to catalog the lack of response by major political blogs in the United States, both left and right. Of course, this blog does not rank up there with the Instapundits and Koses of the world. But we have failed to blog about the train bombings that slaughtered hundreds.

And, as Mutiny pointed out about so many other blogs, we wrote a lot about the London bombings last summer.

Here is my reason (excuse?): I don't have anything relevant to say about the Bombay bombings yet. No one knows who was behind them. No one knows the motivation. No one knows how to plays into domestic tensions, Kashmir, or India-Pakistan relations. No one knows if it's Maoist rebels or Islamic terrorists or some insane cult.

In the next couple of weeks we will know more. And we will see how it relates to other problems and conflicts in South Asia and the world at large. Then I might have something to say about it. If the bombing did involve Kashmiri insurgents, backed by the security service of Pakistan, then the United States would be implicated as well. The US has for decades given Pakistan a blank check to support nuclear proliferation and terrorism in the name of both radical Islam and general instability. But until we know that, we can't really indict anyone.

In the mean time, the horror is so profound and overwhelming that any words from me on this blog would seem cheap.