My frequent interlocutor, BB, and I, recently engaged on Deepak Chopra's view of the American election. Well, Deepak is back again. From Dorothy Rabinowitz, in WSJ.
How the ebullient Dr. Chopra had come to be chosen as an authority on terror remains something of a mystery, though the answer may have something to do with his emergence in the recent presidential campaign as a thinker of advanced political views. Also commending him, perhaps, is his well known capacity to cut through all sorts of complexities to make matters simple. No one can fail to grasp the wisdom of a man who has informed us that "If you have happy thoughts, then you make happy molecules."
In his CNN interview, he was no less clear. What happened in Mumbai, he told the interviewer, was a product of the U.S. war on terrorism, that "our policies, our foreign policies" had alienated the Muslim population, that we had "gone after the wrong people" and inflamed moderates. And "that inflammation then gets organized and appears as this disaster in Bombay."
Well, there you are. The man who hated Palin and praised Obama as the redeemer seems to think that the terrorists in Mumbai aren't responsible for all the dead in that Indian city. The United States is. Well, I am glad we got that clear.
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