The Cuckoo's Nest

Monday, October 31, 2005

'Our' ABC

There's a teaser-trailer for tomorrow night's ep. of Foreign Correspondent, which taglines a story on Fiji as follows:

It's friendly, it has no enemies, no oil or other resources to plunder...

Gee, I wonder what the subtext of that is. And listening to Fran Kelly on RN Breakfast this morning, she seemed slightly sceptical of the Indian terror expert she was interviewing, when he suggested that Al Qaeda was behind the Delhi bombings. Fran's voice cracked with incredulity: "But why India?" You could practically hear her thinking "Why India? They didn't invade Iraq." She hastened to explain that "the motives of terror are never simple". Funny, when a bus is blown up in London, everyone knows it's because of Iraq. When an Islamist bomb goes off in India, the motives are suddenly, er, complex.

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