Posted on 02/28/2006 9:00:39 AM PST by Raj13008
On his triumphalist tour of India and Pakistan, where he hopes to wave imperiously at people he considers potential subjects, President Bush has an itinerary that's getting curiouser and curiouser.
For Bush's March 2 pit stop in New Delhi, the Indian government tried very hard to have him address our parliament. A not inconsequential number of MPs threatened to heckle him, so Plan One was hastily shelved. Plan Two was to have Bush address the masses from the ramparts of the magnificent Red Fort, where the Indian prime minister traditionally delivers his Independence Day address. But the Red Fort, surrounded as it is by the predominantly Muslim population of Old Delhi, was considered a security nightmare. So now we're into Plan Three: President George Bush speaks from Purana Qila, the Old Fort.
Ironic, isn't it, that the only safe public space for a man who has recently been so enthusiastic about India's modernity should be a crumbling medieval fort?
Since the Purana Qila also houses the Delhi zoo, George Bush's audience will be a few hundred caged animals and an approved list of caged human beings, who in India go under the category of "eminent persons." They're mostly rich folk who live in our poor country like captive animals, incarcerated by their own wealth, locked and barred in their gilded cages, protecting themselves from the threat of the vulgar and unruly multitudes whom they have systematically dispossessed over the centuries.
So what's going to happen to George W. Bush? Will the gorillas cheer him on? Will the gibbons curl their lips? Will the brow-antlered deer sneer? Will the chimps make rude noises? Will the owls hoot? Will the lions yawn and the giraffes bat their beautiful eyelashes? Will the crocs recognize a kindred soul? Will the quails give thanks that Bush isn't traveling with Dick Cheney, his hunting partner with the notoriously bad aim? Will the CEOs agree?
Oh, and on March 2, Bush will be taken to visit Gandhi's memorial in Rajghat. He's by no means the only war criminal who has been invited by the Indian government to lay flowers at Rajghat. (Only recently we had the Burmese dictator General Than Shwe, no shrinking violet himself.) But when Bush places flowers on that famous slab of highly polished stone, millions of Indians will wince. It will be as though he has poured a pint of blood on the memory of Gandhi.
We really would prefer that he didn't.
It is not in our power to stop Bush's visit. It is in our power to protest it, and we will. The government, the police and the corporate press will do everything they can to minimize the extent of our outrage. Nothing the happy newspapers say can change the fact that all over India, from the biggest cities to the smallest villages, in public places and private homes, George W. Bush, the President of the United States of America, world nightmare incarnate, is just not welcome
Doesn't have that same ring to it. LOL
Is there something in that woman's screed that makes any sense outside of a padded cell in a sanitarium? Because I couldn't find it.
I don't trust anything in the Nation. Their editors are idiots when it comes to fact checking.
There was a hit piece that tried to tie Bush to Ken Lay and the lead paragraphs stated as fact that George W. Bush's baseball team the Houston Astros played at Ken Lay's lobbied Enron Field.
When they were notified that Bush owned the Texas Rangers (an Arlington team) the team name was replaced but the stadium remained the same (they did not play at Enron because they did not play in Houston).
What's more Bush sold his part of the team before Enron Field opened. It is a worthless rag.
I read the whole thing, but all I remember is "wah wah wah".
I have to believe that even liberals get tired of that high-pitched, fingernails-on-a-chalkboard whining...
She works for "The Nation" - where no outrage is too small; everything is a shame and positively no one is happy.
I once asked, no kidding, Joan Baez how she could keep on singing all those sad songs about all those sad people and places. Her answer: "Well, you just have to understand what a shit*y place the world is." This, while sipping champagne in her dressing room backstage at the Warner Theater in Washington, DC. She also like Ritz Crackers with peanut butter. Imagine her breath. Ugh.
Wow! Bush wants to annex India and Pakistan? Boy, who woulda guessed that?!
Oh, for the good old days of Marx and Lenin!
Arundhati Roy, your last name looks suspiciously monarchist and triumphalist. Better watch out, or you will be sent in for re-education.
I'd love to see Ms. Roy and Oriana Fallaci go toe to toe in a boxing match.
India looks east..sees Red China..Looks west, sees Pakistan...nuff said..
The Nation is a left-wing, liberal publication out of New York. I don't know why you posted this article.
Someone she hand out Prozac in Pez dispensers to all the lib beeeeyyooootchs like her ant that Indian chick.
Jeeeeeeezzzzzz...what a nightmare to go through life with nothing positive to say...but, I bet, they're all just lying through there teeth for the attention, anyway.
I'll bet this "lady" might have had an orgasm if Brezhnev winked at her.
Leftist bums are the same all over the world.
I once asked, no kidding, Joan Baez how she could keep on singing all those sad songs about all those sad people and places. Her answer: "Well, you just have to understand what a shit*y place the world is." This, while sipping champagne in her dressing room backstage at the Warner Theater in Washington, DC. She also like Ritz Crackers with peanut butter. Imagine her breath. Ugh.At least Baez had the integrity to slam the Vietnamese government when they turned out (what a shock) to be bigger despots that Thieu and company ever dreamed of being. She actually caught a lot of grief from the rest of the left for that.
-Eric
She's unhappy because the prime minister sounds like a Reagan Republican and a defacto ally of the United States.
I can just see Dubya, cloaked with that calm mantle of humble self assurance, a quirky little grin on his face, and that famous twinkle in his eye as he rises above it all in valiant fashion and the people gasp. :o)
Geeeeshhh...I really need to drink more coffee.
That's "should hand out" and "like her and that Indian chick"
Yeah, I am vocab deficeint today.
However, she did make a notable trenchant observation:
Ironic, isn't it, that the only safe public space for a man who has recently been so enthusiastic about India's modernity should be a crumbling medieval fort?
It seems that the guy who thinks he has licked his father's "vision thing." Can't seem to recognize when his visions are...well...a little premature. A lot of spade-work has to be done before India becomes a reliable partner in protecting his 'new world order.'
I wanted to give you lot a peek into the mentality of the left in India .Google search 'Arundhati Roy'. You will find the most anarchist and hateful anti-India stuff. And that precisely makes her the heroine of the Indian left.
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