On April 15, The New York times ripped the current government of Bangladesh as a “military dictatorship.” It also challenged the Bush administration for remaining silent given its goal of “promoting democracy, especially in Islamic countries.” Unfortunately, The Times did not bother to produce any evidence to support is assertions; but then again it did not have to given the dearth of information about Bangladesh among Americans. A search of The New York Times itself showed only a handful of articles about Bangladesh among the thousands upon thousands in its database. Successive Bangladeshi governments have done a singularly incompetent job...