Whose reports do you trust the most in this latest Indian / Pakistani / U.S. crisis?

Where are you getting information that you trust, if any?

If you choose "None" below, how are you following this story?

I don't know who to believe.

:shrug:

We will need first hand reports from people who have told us the truth in the past. Which investigative reporters have the heft & courage for that assignment?

Christiane Amanpour?

there are so many angles on the story what seems to be the most likely to me is that unfortunately the terrorists succeeded in "accomplishing" mass confusion and division or deepening those that already existed.

They all have their own agendas, which are only coincidentally (and infrequently) aligned with the public interest. Politicians can't be trusted simply because they're politicians, and the primary goal of politicians is the accumulation and exercise of power, not the promotion of the public good. The media can't be trusted because, as we've clearly seen during the Bush Dark Age, they are merely the lackeys of the powerful. Independent sources are no more reliable, because they are often dependent on politicians and the media for their information.

We are in the post-truth era, where "exciting" spin, opinion, and misdirection take the place of boring facts, evidence, and corroboration. Maybe we'll all learn the truth in sixty years, when it no longer matters to anyone powerful.

What are we, a bunch of sheep?

Israel and Palestine seemed to be making some progress toward working out a peace agreement of some sort, or at least a warming of relations.

Some terrorist attack would then occur to re-stoke the fear and hatred forces.

It seems in this case India and Pakistan had improved relations over the last few months.

This attack seemed aimed at the West as a secondary target, primarily soft tourist targets.

Obama will be taking the oath of office in January and there was the possibility his administration might work for some form of resolution regarding Kashmir.

A lasting peace between India and Pakistan would allow Pakistan to more effectively police their own borders instead of keeping a large portion of their army pinned down facing India. Such a result along with education and social reform could decrease the power of Al Qaeda and the like.

A more stable Pakistani Government; that could put increased resources in to educating it's citizenry with some critical thinking skills instead of relying on rote teaching fundamentalist Madrassas could even help bring about peace in Afghanistan.

The question is who benefits from such an attack? Obviously the terrorists do, as does the Talaban. In my opinion the government of Pakistan doesn't as this terrorist attack only increases the animosity toward them from India, thereby making a peace agreement less likely.

If the peacemakers of the world sincerely want peace, they can't allow the promoters of hate, ignorance and fear to keep the field. They must strive for a solution and peace agreement in spite of attacks, they must also expect more attacks to take place.

Whatever element in the Indian or Pakistani government that spins the best can as well.

War profiteers benefit from these attacks.

The Republicans hope to benefit from these attacks as they add to the plateful Obama is facing.

Neither the Pakistani government nor the Indian governments do directly because they are both sitting on powder kegs and they know it, imho.

There are too many hidden agendas and lots of CYA. In addition, there are so many factions in Pakistan and India, who knows

what is really going on. False flags with false flags? It's a mess, and I bet we don't have reliable HUMINT in any of those places.