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Mumbai, the NYT's revisionism, and lessons not learned

The Times' Editorial Page blames the Bush administration for "blessing" the military coup against Hugo Chavez without mentioning that it did the same. Why does that matter?

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  • Saturday, November 29, 2008 03:33 PM

    @ondelette

    In the past decade, India has seen an epidemic of Hindu terrorism that reached its nadir - I hope - in 2002, when almost 2,000 Muslims were slaughtered in the state of Gujarat. That massacre, like so many others, had been whipped up by Hindu-nationalist parties, in response to an earlier, smaller instance of Muslim violence. -- via sysprog

    This rather trumps vicious New Yorkers at a Wal*Mart opening. India's been at least our equal in mob actions for quite a few decades now. In both the good and the bad of it.

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