Posted by
bigredcon on Tuesday, July 11, 2006 12:00:37 PM
From
Allah via
Michelle Malkin, "What is it with the eleventh of month?"
9/11, 3/11 (Madrid) and now 7/11 (Mumbai).
This probably rises (or lowers) to the same level of
Joe Biden's remarks from last week:
“you cannot go to a 7/11 or a Dunkin’ Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent.”
Maybe that's why it occurred to me. Why would someone bomb India on 7/11 unless they were familiar with the american stereotype of Indian convenience store workers? Yes, it is a rhetorical question and I am actually disappointed in myself that I even made the mental connection.
In light of last weeks revelations about the plot to bomb NY/NJ commuter trains, the news of the bombings in India today give me pause. The images of the chaos at the train stations, of injured people and frantic crowds don't have the usual luxury of being 'somewhere else'. If it were not for the efforts of the administration that
Charles Krauthammer commented on so eloquently on Special Report, I could just as easily be watching events much closer to home.
I don't know exactly how I feel and maybe that's why bombing India on 7/11 seems ironic. I guess I'm just proud of the efforts of my President and his administration and their efforts to keep us safe at home, the NYTimes notwithstanding.
The title of the post?? Of course I'm not implying that Joe Biden had anything whatsoever to do with today's bombings in India... I just think that his comments seem that much more inappropriate to me after today's events in the commuter tunnels of Mumbai.