No Wretchard, if anything this points to the War on Terror EXPANDING.

WHAt will India do? Well after they’ve rounded up the terrorists, very likely fingers will point to Pakistan (they are already) and India might just figure the heck with it and launch a pre-emptive nuclear strike on Pakistan. Followed by full-out War.

With a massive dose of ethnic-religious cleansing. Regrettable but inevitable given the numbers of the respective groups and the anger of the vast majority Hindus. Classic over-reach. Also indicates massive Pakistani stupidity — in avoiding an all-out war with America they have got one (this attack has ISI all over it) with India.

It matters little what is said or done in the US, the primary actors will be the Indian military, public, and politicians. I suspect that the politicians will not be able to react to the public outrage with anything less than War. Which means a nuclear War. With millions dead.

India must of course contemplate a “sneak attack” via nuclear-commandos into their sensitive bases. This attack, which resembles Tet in it’s surprise and initial effectiveness, probably scares the hell out of everyone in India in the military and political circles. Since it’s easy to pencil in the substitution of AK-47′s with say, shipping container nukes. India has a substantial police force that is active and has confronted mass-casualty terror attacks before.

Nor is America out of this — the Muslim attackers singled out AMERICANS and Brits and ISRAELIS. So much for Barack HUSSEIN Obama.

Now Obama has a choice. Be more Catholic than the Pope in fighting terror, particularly Muslims, and adopt explicit anti-Muslim attitudes and language and policies regarding Jihad, or be called out as “soft on terror” and “a secret Muslim.”

Mickey Kaus has his “Feiler Faster” principle in which the internet and modern age speed up the pace of political events. I think this is generally true. Obama must face before inauguration the threat of Muslim Terrorists killing AMERICANS abroad. If he does not adopt a 100% anti-Muslim attitude, Republicans can and will attack him at will for being “soft” on terror and again, a “secret Muslim” quite likely with the modern equivalent of Nixon’s “whispering campaign” against Helen Gahaghan Douglas. Bonus — the Media is so in the tank for Obama no one listens to them any more and they have no credibility to check a “whisper” campaign conducted beneath the media in internet e-mails, phone calls, anonymous websites, the like.

Moreover, with the threat against the NYC Subways, and threat of nuclear Iran, we get the perfect storm: huge security threats that could kill millions of Americans by Muslim terrorists combined with economic meltdown. The model of GWB — throwing expensive military equipment and a few men at the Jihad problem, has been shown to be a massive failure.

Inevitably, we are inching towards, the “parking lot” solution. I think this conflict escalates, with Pakistan’s ISI fractured and factionalized and seeking to widen things by assisting AQ with nukes to attack the US.

Obama and Dems CANNOT afford to lose a city, that makes them a party as politically dead as the Whigs. The NEXT Republican will not shy away from “Hussein” and dead Americans at the hands of Muslim Jihadis as an issue, believe me. Because it would win him the Presidency (or her).

In short it’s not 1993 any more, and Obama does not have the Clintonian luxury of just focusing on the economy.