Andrew Leonard's take on the Indian diaspora will play well in smug and ignorant Democratic circles, but any American who knows anything about India or has spent any time there will recognise Leonard's racial demagoguery for what it is. India is the home of the caste system Andrew, and light skinned Brahman Indians dominate India be it in politics, Bollywood, the media, business, just about everything else. Look how Tamils are treated. Religious hatred between Hindus and Muslims runs deep in India, witness the recent religiously motivated train bombing. Mumbai's run by a Hindu thug, Bal Thackery. Tit-for tat religious or turf assassinations are a way of life in India. Get off the jet in Mumbai and take a deep whiff of that fresh city air, we'll adhere to Kyoto you say? Hundreds of thousands of Indians sleep on Mumbai sidewalks adjacent to open sewers. Or, spend a summer in Delhi, you don't need to smoke because just breathing the air is like smoking two packs of cigarettes a day. What's happened in America is that some clever Indians have caught on to the fact that playing the race card works with Democrats, playing the victim to the big bad anglo saxon or big bad Republican will get you far in the Democratic party, that ironically is run by some of the richest white anglo saxon or Irish hypocritical wrecked'ems in the USA. Whining works for democrats. The fact is the average Indian American family resides in the upper middle or upper class of the American economic hiearchy, the percentage of Indian millionaires is much higher than the percentage is for millionaires in most other American ethnic groups. The average Indian American has more in common with the rich white democrats like Ted Kennedy, John Kerry, and John "sue them for what they got" Roberts. Where the average Indian family differs from the Democrats is that family matters more to him than it does to the average Democrat. The real irony is, is that the Democratic Party has become the American party of wealth, it's no longer the party of the average middle American. Indians are smart, and they recognise the racist stupidity in both the Democratic and Republican parties and exploit it.

Did Jim Webb pay his Indian trojan horse? If not, he was exploiting a minority. Let's call for an investigation at the expense of the Virginia or American taxpayer!