No, Nikki Haley is not from India; but both of her parents are from India. Nothing at all wrong with that, but Juan Cole's point about Haley's "beating up Iran" for a nuclear bomb it doesn't have is still a good point, I think.
Thank YOU, Rebecca Gordon for a superb account and analysis of the endless war history of the United States. After 9/11, I started looking for answers to the question the media AND the Bush administration were asking repeatedly, "Why do they hate us?" I couldn't buy their simplistic answer, that it was because of our freedoms. The first book that gave me a reasonable explanation was the book "Blowback", by Chalmers Johnson. Have you read that? But I went on, hungry for more information, and read many more books on U.S. interventions and invasions. What you've so succinctly written in this essay brings this sickness with endless war to the public's attention again. I hope it gets wide readership. It deserves it.
No, Nikki Haley is not from India; but both of her parents are from India. Nothing at all wrong with that, but Juan Cole's point about Haley's "beating up Iran" for a nuclear bomb it doesn't have is still a good point, I think.
Thank YOU, Rebecca Gordon for a superb account and analysis of the endless war history of the United States. After 9/11, I started looking for answers to the question the media AND the Bush administration were asking repeatedly, "Why do they hate us?" I couldn't buy their simplistic answer, that it was because of our freedoms. The first book that gave me a reasonable explanation was the book "Blowback", by Chalmers Johnson. Have you read that? But I went on, hungry for more information, and read many more books on U.S. interventions and invasions. What you've so succinctly written in this essay brings this sickness with endless war to the public's attention again. I hope it gets wide readership. It deserves it.