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think about it this way...the us is in transition. the sitting administration is lamer than most lame ducks. it has shown itself only barely able to cope with the financial crisis in the states. it has no political credibility domestically to speak of, and even less internationally. we collectively sit, waiting for 20 january and hoping that nothing bad happens that is outside the ability of the us to manage--assuming that mumbai represents something that the us has to manage. and i think there is a sense in which it does, to the extent that what i wrote above is unfolding. the americans---and everyone else---has an interest in not allowing the obvious tendency within india to deliver the fuck you response to pakistan as a whole to lead to anything foolish like military action.
i would see the non-response as partly a function of the holiday, maybe to some extent a function of parochialism--but i'd factor in anxiety as well.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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