While the death rate from the attacks seems to be holding at this point to around 100 with estimates of wounded at around 1,000 not even the 9/11 attacks, not even Beslan, reflect such an onslaught against modern civilization.

-- demonstrates how overheated and irrational her commentary is.

Every successful terrorist attack will be different from what preceded it, or it will not be successful. That doesn't make such a success "unprecedented" in the absolute value of its significance. And while the death toll is horrible, with all due respect you can roll 100 into 3,000 quite a few times before you begin to understand the word "onslaught."

Given this wild lack of perspective, her criticisms of President Bush and President-Elect Obama sound ridiculous. No one in India is gauging reaction on a by-the-word level like this, and while "world leaders" are experienced at big words, everyone on the planet knows what country has sacrificed blood, gold and, yes, prestige to fight the good fight when it has been necessary to do so. Being compared unfavorably to the potentate-for-life of Russia and the milquetoast bureaucrats of the world's other enablers of and apologists for terrorism, the Europeans, is hardly an insult in this context.

Do you suppose there's any chance of our government admitting this salient point?