yglesias.thinkprogress.org - 4/27/2009
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sheikh_mujibur_rahman For historical reasons related to the geopolitics of the Cold War, the United States has traditionally aligned itself with Pakistan in Pakistan’s conflict with India. Consequently, you often see American pundits gloss the India-Pakistan conflict in terms similar to these ...
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... Yet there appears to be predilection by some pundits to read a lot into a short blog post. Matthew Yglesias apparently believes that to point to India’s role in the 1971 war is to gloss over Pakistan’s ignoble conduct in what became Bangladesh. Others may have seen “a happy Pakistan bouncing along” until victimized by a “rapacious” India, but my post said nothing of the sort. In fact, in contrast to Mr. Yglesias, I was alive during the war and remember stories about Pakistani atrocities. ...
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