How many paragraphs until …
At this stage, although one can read detailed accounts of the Mumbai attacks, what stands out is how much we do not know about them. Which may be much of the point. If one wants to be really Machiavellian, the attacks may well derail attempts to improve Indo-Pakistani relations. A thought that does not exactly operate against the possibility of ISI involvement.
Given all that, how many paragraphs did it take The Age editorial on the massacre to get to blaming the West (particularly the US)? Six.
Such certainty must be a wonderful thing. It certainly makes analysis easy. One just forces everything back into one’s own obsessions even though there is plenty of evidence of such violence being a much larger phenomena - Samuel P. Huntingdon originally commented on Islam’s “bloody borders” back in Summer 1993. But, one must remember that, as Westerners, we have superior causal agency: ultimately, the brown folk out there are just reacting to us, don’t you know.
There are many ways to be - what’s the word? - Eurocentric.
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Given all that, how many paragraphs did it take The Age editorial on the massacre to get to blaming the West (particularly the US)? Six.
Such certainty must be a wonderful thing. It certainly makes analysis easy. One just forces everything back into one’s own obsessions even though there is plenty of evidence of such violence being a much larger phenomena - Samuel P. Huntingdon originally commented on Islam’s “bloody borders” back in Summer 1993. But, one must remember that, as Westerners, we have superior causal agency: ultimately, the brown folk out there are just reacting to us, don’t you know.
There are many ways to be - what’s the word? - Eurocentric.
NOTE Due to unrelenting spam attacks comments on this entry have been locked.