Wall Street Journal Editorial explains the Mumbai attacks: India is weak, an easy target with ineffective political leaders

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

We will learn more in the coming days how terrorists invaded India's financial capital Wednesday night, killing more than 100 innocents and wounding hundreds more. But there are already two lessons emerging: The war on terror is far from won, and it is migrating to democracies with weak antiterror defenses.

India is home to the world's second-largest Muslim population after Indonesia, and it has struggled with jihadist violence for two decades.

...

The attacks are a reminder that India is at the top of the terror target list.

...

One reason is because India is an easy target. Its intelligence units are understaffed and lack resources. Coordination among the country's 28 state police forces is poor. The country's antiterror legal architecture is also inadequate; there is no preventive detention law, and prosecutions can take years.

A lack of political leadership is to blame ... Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's Congress Party has done little more than bicker with its coalition allies over the past five years on how best to fight terrorism ... Or it has tried to deflect responsibility by blaming Pakistan. It may pay a price for its incompetence at the national polls next year.

...

This can't continue. Wednesday's attacks should arouse Indians to better confront the terror threat, while reminding all democracies how dangerous that threat still is.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122783058605062909.html