San Bernardino – It’s all coming back home now

The American govt was in a state of denial on the killings in San Bernardino by a heavily armed man and a woman in combat uniform. Not sure if it was anything else but a terrorist attack. The assault rifles, handguns, bombs, fake bombs, explosive devices and the name, Syed Rizwan Farook  and Tashfeen Malik did not ring any bell. Could be just two disgruntled employees. Ok believe whatever you like, it is anything but terrorism. Happy?

Obama was quoted to have said this by CBS News, ‘The one thing we do know is that we have a pattern now of mass shootings in this country that has no parallel anywhere else in the world…’ So, what is it? Finally they had to admit that it was nothing else but a terrorist attack, something they brought it upon themselves.

It is all coming back now. The wars the Americans are conducting in the Middle East, the killings of Arabs and Muslims for whatever reasons the Americans in Washington and the Pentagon think fit and reasonable, are coming back to American soil now and will only get more frequent and worse. You can kill some people some of the time. But you cannot kill all the people all the time. They will get wiser and will come back after you, in your homeland, in your home town, in your streets.

The war has arrived in home ground, like it or not. The protagonists will use the cheapest way to inflict as much damage to the Americans as they could.  Incidents like what happened in San Bernardino will be a morale booster to the Arabs and Muslims who have had enough of American bombings, killings and terrorizing their countries.  The man and woman, called them terrorists if that makes the Americans feel better, will be seen as warriors, as martyrs. This terrorist act will be seen as a heroic act against the invaders in their countries.

This is new warfare, asymmetrical warfare, no war zone, no boundaries, no front line, no battle field. It can happen anywhere, right in the heart of New York or Washington or any town or city in the USA.  This will be the new normal as long as the Americans think it is convenient and normal to conduct wars in other people’s countries and to kill people with no qualms or conscience or remorse. It’s ok, they can’t get back at us! Sure they can and they would.

It is like winter, let is snow, let it snow. The Americans must know that they cannot go around starting wars and killing people and think that it is safe to do so, that they can go home and be safe in America, sleep well as if nothing happens. And the next morning go to Walmart to do some marketing and tuck in the beef steak in the pub when the sun goes down. The war is still going on in the Middle East and the Arabs are still being bombed and killed every morning, every night. The GIs could switch on and switch of like going to a movie for some excitement.