Elected democratic leaders killed far more people than the Mumbai attackers they demonized

Evidence

How many Americans were ready to “isolate, condemn and denounce publicly and repeatedly” the murders for which George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and Donald Rumsfeld were responsible—and how exactly do you “isolate” the elected officials of a democracy? No Muslims elected the mass murderers in Mumbai to any office. They were part of a criminal gang in whose creation US foreign policy, Saudi money, and Pakistani intelligence are all deeply implicated. But Bush and company were elected, and they are responsible for infinitely more murders in Iraq and Afghanistan. — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 47

Categorization

• XREF: Directly resonates with the moral accounting themes in Home Boy and A Very Minor Prophet about who gets blamed for violence.

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