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| New Age guru has deep insight on the Mumbai attachs: "It's America's fault!" |
| 2008-12-01 |
| Dorothy Rabinowitz, Wall Street Journal If the Mumbai terror assault seemed exceptional, and shocking in its targets, it was clear from the Thanksgiving Day reports that we weren't going to be deprived of the familiar, either. Namely, ruminations, hints, charges of American culpability that regularly accompany catastrophes of this kind. Soon enough, there was Deepak Chopra, healer, New Age philosopher and digestion guru, advocate of aromatherapy and regular enemas, holding forth on CNN on the meaning of the attacks. How the ebullient Dr. Chopra had come to be chosen as an authority on terror remains something of a mystery, though the answer may have something to do with his emergence in the recent presidential campaign as a thinker of advanced political views. Also commending him, perhaps, is his well known capacity to cut through all sorts of complexities to make matters simple. No one can fail to grasp the wisdom of a man who has informed us that "If you have happy thoughts, then you make happy molecules." In his CNN interview, he was no less clear. What happened in Mumbai, he told the interviewer, was a product of the U.S. war on terrorism, that "our policies, our foreign policies" had alienated the Muslim population, that we had "gone after the wrong people" and inflamed moderates. And "that inflammation then gets organized and appears as this disaster in Bombay." All this was a bit too much, evidently, for CNN interviewer Jonathan Mann, who interrupted to note that there were other things going on -- matters like the ongoing bitter Pakistan-India struggle over Kashmir -- which had caused so much terror and so much violence. "That's not Washington's fault," he pointed out. Given an argument, the guest, ever a conciliator, agreed: The Mumbai catastrophe was not Washington's fault, it was everybody's fault. . . . |
| Posted by:Mike |
| #7 Barry should make Chopra the Secretary of Kumbaya and send him off (alone) to meet with the terrorists. |
| Posted by: DMFD 2008-12-01 20:58 |
| #6 "If you have happy thoughts, then you make happy molecules." or it's Happy Hour Occam's Razor??? |
| Posted by: macofromoc 2008-12-01 16:10 |
| #5 # 1, He is a dumb sh*t for sure. Deepak did not learn much to practice regular medicine. So, in early 1980, he started to promote the “snake oil” in Boston. Then he talked useless confusing sh*t. Now, he became a Guru and a witch doctor, combined. Very soon, he will be asking people to worship him because he is the “Avatar”. |
| Posted by: Annon 2008-12-01 11:26 |
| #4 In 1998, Chopra was awarded the satirical Ig Nobel Prize in physics for "his unique interpretation of quantum physics as it applies to life, liberty, and the pursuit of economic happiness." Hmmmmmmmm. Methinks some folks see him as Ye Olde Snake Oil Salesman... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2008-12-01 11:16 |
| #3 It's everyone's fault except the terrorist! I don't believe it no matter how many times they say it. |
| Posted by: Grolush Darling of the Hatfields3195 2008-12-01 09:54 |
| #2 If only Deepak could lay some of that Hindu mystic shit on the muslims, all would be unicorns and rainbows. |
| Posted by: ed 2008-12-01 09:26 |
| #1 another celebrity dumb-sh*t spouting off on things of which he knows little. |
| Posted by: Broadhead6 2008-12-01 09:24 |