News- Lost in the shuffle

Across the world these last couple of weeks there have been explosions and eruptions of chaos from the Middle East to Afghanistan and North Korea: subjects that I will hopefully have more time to address soon. Amidst all of that you may have missed it when this evening it was announced that Indian authorities have detained 6 people tied to last week's terrorist attacks in Mumbai. I wanted to address this briefly for the simple reason that Mumbai has almost been lost in the background, at least in the western media, with all that is now occuring. But we should not forget these horrific "Madrid-style" train bombings, which left 197 dead and 800 others injured. Events like this should make it clear that terrorism and Islamist extremism are not merely American or Israeli problems as some make them out to be, but much broader issues that must be recognized and dealt with by the world as a whole.