The mainstream media's goto guy (a mental midget) on the attacks in Mumbai, is dancing around the obvious nature of the effort. Fareed Zakaria assures us that the attacks were aimed at Indians, not foreigners -- the nouveau riche Indians who frequent the fancy hotels that were attacked. Zakaria says simmering Hindu-Muslim tensions over the status of Muslims in India may be the root cause. Ah, root causes: discrimination, poverty . Sound familiar? It just couldn't be, I guess, that these were jihadist monsters in the service of some nation or committed to murder in the service of Allah. There are problems with Zakaria's theory: why did the killers seek out American and British tourists in the hotels? Why did they murder all the Jewish hostages they took in the Chabad House? How in a city of 18 million, where maybe a 1,000 Jews reside or are visitors at any one time, did they come to seize the Chabad House? And then there is Rachel Maddow of MSNBC, the new queen of...(Read Full Post)