It seems most likely that the recent terrorist action was meant primarilly to stir the India/ Pakistan plot, (although the execution of Jews qua Jews is a disturbing development). It brings into clarity just how efficient a technique terror is when ten people can overthrow normality for a number six times in order of magnitude higher than themselves.

The Indian nation, which is incredibly diverse, appears to be correctly absorbing the lessons that native Muslims (to India) were victims along with their Hindu neighbors and are alike horrified by these actions, which appear to have been coordinated and ordained out of Pakistan, though not necessarily connected to the 'government' there.

And of course the terror campaign has been waged over and over against Pakistani citizens in order to foment local strife and weaken that government into impotence.

As for the US, I think that those who think the President-elect is going to prove himself weak are going to be re-thinking that. American Presidents as a rule tend to throw their weight around be they Reps or Dems. The current occupant tended to throw his around in a very inefficient manner which tended to reward the people he was ostensibly against and enrich a whole number of people on the sidelines. The President-elect has shown himself a superb politician in achieving a maximum political rise with outstanding timing and temperament. If he shows anykind of similiar competence in office we shall be well served.