Last week in Mumbai we witnessed as clear a case of carefully planned mass terrorism as we are ever likely to see. The seven-venue atrocity was co-ordinated in a highly sophisticated way. The terrorists even used BlackBerrys to stay in touch with each other during their three-and-half-day rampage. This meticulously organized operation was aimed exclusively at civilian targets: two hospitals, a train station, two hotels, a leading tourist restaurant and a Jewish centre. The terrorists didn’t want to negotiate. They wanted to murder as many Hindus, Christians, Jews, atheists and other “infidels” as they could. So why are so many...