Robert Dreyfussquotes Bush :
"Either they knew or didn't know, and what matters is, is that they're there. What's worse, that the government knew or that the government didn't know? … What’s worse, them ordering it and it happening, or them not ordering it and it happening?"
Compare this with how university professors write ( from my blog October 15, 2006):
"We all know that the political world judges Iraq by the absolute badness of what is going on (which means Bush critics find a higher number to fit their priors), but that is an incorrect standard. We should judge the marginal product of U.S. action, relative to what else could have happened. (North Korea, and the UN response, will give us one data point from another setting.) In that latter and more accurate notion of a cost-benefit test, U.S. actions probably appear worst when deaths are rising over time, and hitting very high levels in the future.
Of course the rate of change of deaths is not exactly the proper variable. Ideally we would like some measure of the contingency of eventual total deaths, relative to policy. I am not sure what other proxies for that we might have."
Compared to these Indian bloggers seem clearer.Here is a quote from one if them:
"Real or fake Indian, I don't read books written by Sudras. Hope that clears it up."
3 comments:
who's the blogger?
It wo'nt be difficult to guess; he or she comments in some of the blogs that you visit. The comment came in the context of a book by Dilip D'Souza's grandfather. What stuck me was that with that type of attitude, there seemed to be no point in a discussion and but he or she participate in the discussions anyway. And there seemed to be some admirers with the usual comments like (may not be exact) 'right on money', 'spot on' etc.
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