My Response to Dorothy Rabinowitz and the WSJ (Gotham Chopra)

Thanks Yolie - nice to have company.

Very interesting and reasoned response to the WSJ criticism.
I think a lot of people reacted negatively to your father's words because it does always seem to be our fault. If we try to work constructively with bad regimes, we are blamed as conspirators. If we fight them we are worse.
We are blamed for every negative consequence years and years after the event, yet never given any credit for any positive side effect of our interaction.
In a way, and I think unconsciously we all expect the US to solve all the world's problems and so when it doesn't we react badly.
I really believe that the Muslims are the only one who can fix this cancer and culture of death.
Their silence is deafening. They never rise up to demonstrate their horror at the atrocities committed in their name, but will call for blood at a satirical cartoon.
Many wish that people like your father would have the courage to condemn the perpetrators not the observers.

The truth has been brought to light. It's time the ostrich removes its head from the sand. I hope and pray that the new admin will look at the world with a different eye. If the world has not learned lessons from the past and does not ponder on the articles written by your father and yourself and choose to ignore the facts then we will have to live with the terrorists for the generation to come.

Though the personal attacks by Dorothy Rabinowitz may not be taken as rhetoric, one cannot igonore the thrust of the article.

Deepek Chopra blamed Americas "right wing" attitude for the terrorist attack on Mumbai! He himself agreed that he is going to stand by his comments.

"What we have seen in Mumbai has been brewing for a long time ..."

"Ultimately the message is always toward Washington because it's also the perception that Washington, in their way, directly or indirectly funds both sides of the war on terror. "

From this post, (reference to "right wing")
"Now that the right wing can no longer continue this discredited policy overtly..."

Wait a minute!

Ironically another guy who hails from a neighboring city of Mr. Chopra's birth place, blamed "cultural left" for attack on 9/11. Check out what Dinesh Dsouza says in his book "The enemy at home" Here is a quote from his website
http://www.dineshdsouza.com/books/enemy-intro.html
"In faulting the cultural left, I am not making the absurd accusation that this group blew up the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. I am saying that the cultural left and its allies in Congress, the media, Hollywood, the nonprofit sector and the universities are the primary cause of the volcano of anger toward America that is erupting from the Islamic world. The Muslims who carried out the 9/11 attacks were the product of this visceral rage—some of it based on legitimate concerns, some of it based on wrongful prejudice—but all of it fueled and encouraged by the cultural left. Thus without the cultural left, 9/11 would not have happened."

Whats goin on here? So much to their wisdom!!! or objectivity!!!