Bharat, Obama and Terrorism

Obama says India’s democracy will win over terrorism
Washington, Friday 28 November 2008: India’s democracy ”will prove far more resilient than the hateful ideology that led to these attacks” in Mumbai, US President-elect Barack Obama said on Wednesday as the world reached out to India in sympathy and support over what American analysts described as “India’s 9/11.”
Both the incumbent Bush administration and Obama and his transition team sent out strong messages of condemnation of the attacks and their backing for India even as they coordinated their response in the transition phase in the United States. President Bush phoned Prime Minister Manmohan Singh from Camp David early on Thursday morning to offer support and US help in investigation.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice briefed Obama over the phone as the White House assembled its national security and intelligence chiefs for discussion and analysis and offered India any help it required.
In comments that extolled India’s institutional strength and was directed against the fundamentalist mindset in the neighbourhood, Obama also predicted the triumph of democracy over the sickening ideology of extremism even as terrorists/mujahideen earned universal disgust over the attack of Indian civilians and foreign nationals.