Via Atrios, I give you the most stupid and wrongheaded blog post of the week. Jon "Assrocket" Hinderaker posts
this quote from a debate on colonialism.
Had Britain had the courage to face down Gandhi and his rabble a few years longer, the tragedy that was the partititon of India might have been avoided.
Says Assrocket:
I agree wholeheartedly with this observation ... I do have one word of advice for Roger: Stay off the college lecture circuit. I don't think they're ready for this much diversity!
Coming so soon after the spate of "We should have conqurered Russia after WWII" essays by conservatives, this is just plain creepy.
OK, I know that the partition of India was mostly a function of the way British governors played Muslims against Hindus as a way of asserting their own control. Does anyone with more expertise want to take these idiots on?