Investigation Begins as Assault in Mumbai Ends

"These terrorists who targeted innocent civilians will not defeat India's great democracy, nor shake the will of a global coalition to defeat them," Obama said in a statement. "The United States must stand with India and all nations and people who are committed to destroying terrorist networks, and defeating their hate-filled ideology."

A similar statement was no doubt made by President Bush this week as well as during the week of September 21st when the people at the Marriott Hotel in Pakistan were the unfortunate victims of Islamic terrorists.

Under an Obama administration, the time has come for a concerted and organized world governmental effort to cut to the chase, track down, and eliminate these terrorists groups whether they are based in India, Pakistan, or wherever.

And it will start with Obama bringing Pakistan and India together to stop uselessly pointing fingers at each other or worse esclation to open conflict (which is the actual objective of extremists) and instead focus these two countries and the rest of the world on the need to implement a shared global strategy targeting all such extremists groups where ever they are because they are a threat to the stability of all of us regardless of what country we are individually from.

For the sake of the vast majority of people on this planet who are not Islamic terrorists, the words "global coalition to defeat them" must move beyond rhetoric and become an operating reality instead.