[lbo-talk] A tale of two cities

[Michael McIntyre]

I tried to talk about the Mumbai bombings in my class on Tuesday  
night.  I was so livid that I was virtually incomprehensible.  Where  
do you start with just how fucked up this is?  Lashkar-e-Tayyaba is  
almost certainly responsible, they're a group largely trained by al- 
Qaeda, but they're immune to reprisal because Pakistan's intelligence  
agency, our valiant ally in the war on terror, is their patron.  It's  
hard to tell whether Musharraf's condemnation of the bombing is the  
worst form of hypocrisy or an indication that he's totally lost  
control of ISI.  Either way, he's scared shitless that the recent US  
tilt to India will accelerate.  At least Manmohan Singh is no George  
Bush or Ehud Olmert.  If he were, Indian troops would be in Lahore by  
now.

Michael McIntyre

On Jul 13, 2006, at 2:28 PM, George Scialabba wrote:


> At 01:56 PM 7/13/2006, you wrote:
>> London bombings 7/7/2005:
>>
>> Posts on on LBO talk on first three days (7/7 to 7/9): 26
>> Number of posters: 23
>> Death toll: 52
>>
>>
>> Mumbai bombings 7/11/2006:
>> Posts on on LBO talk on first three days (7/11 to 7/13): 3
>> Number of posters: 1
>> Death toll: at least 200
>>
>> Thought this was an interesting statistic.
>>
>> - Sujeet

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