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December 22, 2009
Beyond hysteria and envy
Christopher Hitchens on what used to be called the Great Game. Britain's game in Afghanistan ended in tragedy leaving leaves today's superpower with the option of farce.
Unless.
This will continue to get nastier and more corrupt and degrading until we recognize that our long-term ally in Asia is not Pakistan but India. And India is not a country sizzling with self-pity and self-loathing, because it was never one of our colonies or clients. We don't have to send New Delhi 15 different envoys a month, partly to placate and partly to hector, because the relationship with India isn't based on hysteria and envy. Alas, though, we send hardly any envoys at all to the world's largest secular and multicultural democracy, and the country itself gets mentioned only as an afterthought. Nothing will change until this changes.
On a related note: If 10% of London's population was Hindu almost nobody would notice, let alone complain.
Posted by Ghost of a flea at December 22, 2009 08:27 AM
