The novelist Arundhati Roy, in an essay published in the Guardian, argues for an honest response to the Mumbai  attacks. She advocates looking beyond the narrative presented by the media to see the real choices faced by all of us:

But November isn't September, 2008 isn't 2001, Pakistan isn't Afghanistan and India isn't America. So perhaps we should reclaim our tragedy and pick through the debris with our own brains and our own broken hearts so that we can arrive at our own conclusions.