May 18, 2004, A Job Even MORE DANGEROUS than Iraqi Governing Council Member...
That would, of course, be "prime minister of India while being named Gandhi", which might explain the decision of Sonia Gandhi, whose husband Rajiv and mother-in-law Indira were both assassinated while in that position, bowing out of the possible premiership (and I believe as head of India's Congress Party) and declining the post, paving the way for respected economist Manmohan Singh to assume the post.
Singh is credited with a great many free market reforms that are largely responsible for the fact that your complaints about your computer software or credit card bill will probably be addressed by someone with a thick Hindi accent, as well as other reforms that have turned India into a regional economic power, after a lengthy history of Soviet style socialism kept its economy moribund. And, he will be the first Sikh to hold the Indian premiership (indeed, the first non-Hindu) though he is a staunch secularist.
Obviously, we Americans have to understand our priorities: there are kinky pictures of redneck chicks still coming out of Iraqi prisons, for God's sake. (BTW, Zizka e-mails to say that he believes Rumsfeld will be the selected sacrifice for the prison abuse fiasco; while I wish Rummy a speedy war crimes trial and little else, I'll believe it when I see it.) Anyway, my point is that we just have no time to pay attention to how the world's largest democracy, a wildly fast growing economy and... a... nuclear... power... and staunch rival of our "good friend", nuclear armed Pakistan... runs an election that replaces its Hindu nationalist BJP party with the old Congress Party (long synonomous with the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty). Again, I suspect that no one in the Bush Administration has given this one any thought whatsoever; they MIGHT pay attention if we suggested that Saddam Hussein had broken out of jail and fled to India... but that's about it.
Well, here's to democracy. In India (from which the rather useful and currently applicable phrase "Quit India" originates), democracy need not be imposed at gunpoint, and its a damned good thing if you ask me.
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With a data set of two, 100% isn't really all that many. Sonia was going all tinfoil hat. (Mahatma wasn't an actual relative, or a prime minister either, you know, so he doesn't count.)
Posted by Zizka at May 19, 2004 09:24 AM
With a data set of two, 100% isn't really all that many. Sonia was going all tinfoil hat. (Mahatma wasn't an actual relative, or a prime minister either, you know, so he doesn't count.)
Posted by Zizka at May 19, 2004 09:26 AM
Still, when your own husband was blown apart by a (female Tamil) suicide bomber in an adoring crowd, and your mother-in-law died in your arms having been shot by her bodyguards, and the recent bodycount from Hindu fundamentalists represented by the party you've just defeated is in the quite-a-lot-of thousands, it might well give you pause without the necessity of tinfoil.
Especially if it took a lot of heavy persuasion to even get you involved in politics.
Posted by Epacris at May 19, 2004 02:59 PM
Still, when your own husband was blown apart by a (female Tamil) suicide bomber in an adoring crowd, and your mother-in-law died in your arms having been shot by her bodyguards, and the recent bodycount from Hindu fundamentalists represented by the party you've just defeated is in the quite-a-lot-of thousands, it might well give you pause without the necessity of tinfoil.
Especially if it took a lot of heavy persuasion to even get you involved in politics.
Posted by Epacris at May 19, 2004 02:59 PM
Still, when your own husband was blown apart by a (female Tamil) suicide bomber in an adoring crowd, and your mother-in-law died in your arms having been shot by her bodyguards, and the recent bodycount from Hindu fundamentalists represented by the party you've just defeated is in the quite-a-lot-of thousands, it might well give you pause without the necessity of tinfoil.
Especially if it took a lot of heavy persuasion to even get you involved in politics.
Posted by Epacris at May 19, 2004 03:00 PM
Oh dear. The server comes back at you with a 500 error saying your request didn't go through.
That's probably why both of us have multi-posted
Posted by Epacris at May 19, 2004 03:01 PM
Gee, TD, you obviously haven't been calling customer service lately. There are no "thick Hindi accents" involved--the nice Indian customer service people are trained with a variety of U.S. regional accents, so your Indian customer service rep sounds like he/she might be speaking to you from Oklahoma or Florida or Connecticut.
Posted by mamayo at May 20, 2004 06:02 PM
Its a distinct possibility that the people with the thick Hindi accents ARE speaking to me from Oklahoma or Florida or Connecticut.
Well, the world will now have to watch out as a billion plus people have a free marketeer (and a leader without either Hindu nationalist or Soviet style central planning baggage) at their helm.
With the breakup of the USSR, only India and the PRC have more people than we do; if both of them get their economic acts together (and the PRC gets its political act together), we will be looking at unbelievable new markets (and less "cheap labor" competitors sniping at our own workers). One could almost look forward to it...
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