Why is Andrew Sullivan whitewashing the persecution of Indias Christians?
It’s amazing, really, when you think about it: no sooner had the Pakistan-India conflict reared up as a consequence of America’s “new war,” then Israel’s amen corner in the US had already taken up the cudgels on New Delhi’s behalf. Gee, these guys are fast. That always-reliable barometer of elite opinion, Andrew Sullivan, succinctly summarized the party line in a weblog item entitled “Israel and India”: “After September 11 and the president’s speech to Congress in which he laid out a clear doctrine of zero tolerance for terrorism, it seems to me our foreign policy is clear. Both Israel and India at either ends of the Islamic Middle East must be unequivocally supported in their struggles against Islamo-fascism. Both are democracies; both allow freedom of religion; both have enemies who are friendly with the perpetrators of the WTC massacre.
