Exit Wounds
9th August 2007
Read it. Actually, India ought to have been divided up into about a dozen different countries. Attempting to keep it all together was about as foolish as, say, the French rolling all of their possessions in Africa into one country. I was amused to learn that a recent high Indian official, President or Prime Minister or something like that, had to give a major speech in Hindi, which he did not speak, by memorizing it phonetically. Say what you will about America, at least the Mexicans who are elected to office here can speak English. More or less.
But plans for brisk disengagement ignored messy realities on the ground.
Sounds like the Democrats’ plan for Iraq — which I’m sure the people at the New Yorker fully support. “Ironic” seems entirely inadequate a word.