Doggedly searching for the crux of the biscuit.
Just when you think the Powerline clown brigade couldn't possibly get any more ridiculous, Hindrocket comes tumbling out of his little VW Bug to demonstrate just how badly your imagination is failing you.
It's great to see someone standing up for colonialism, especially British colonialism. I agree wholeheartedly with this observation, for example:
Had Britain had the courage to face down Gandhi and his rabble a few years longer, the tragedy that was the partititon of India might have been avoided.
Wow. Where does one even begin with a statement as blissfully ignorant of history as that? I'll tell you where you begin: here.
(via Ted Barlow)
TrackBackYeah, Gandhi, why'd you kill all those people? What a nitwit. If he just WATCHED the movie "Gandhi," much less read anything whatsoever, he'd know that Gandhi and other secular independence figures were the biggest opponents of partition, a policy which had quite a bit of support from Mountbatten, the last British viceroy, as well as the more nationalist and extremist Hindu and Muslim leaders. There's plenty of blame to go around, but leave poor Mohandas out of it.
Posted by: Jake at May 11, 2005 02:20 PMla la la la i can't hear you la la la la
what? no wmd in iraq? la la la la la
Posted by: John Johnson at May 11, 2005 02:34 PMShorter Powerline...
Colonel: [moments before the Amritsar Massacre] Should we issue a warning, sir?
Gen. Dyer: They've had their warning. No meetings. Fire!