No, not that one. That was the bad rage. This one:
Indian protesters ransacked a Dominos Pizza outlet in a Mumbai suburb on Friday, demanding a ban on U.S. goods as officials from the two countries struggled to defuse a row over the arrest of an Indian diplomat in New York.
Police and the Indian franchise of the U.S. chain said no-one was hurt in the attack, which came amid unrelenting rage in India over the arrest and subsequent strip-search of Devyani Khobragade for visa fraud and under-payment of her housekeeper.
While I think our police handled the Indian semi-diplomat unwisely after her arrest in this incident, remember that we intervened because she was exploiting an Indian national with long work hours and sub-standard wages:
"One wonders why there is so much outrage about the alleged treatment of the Indian national accused of perpetrating these acts, but precious little outrage about the alleged treatment of the Indian victim and her spouse," Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said in a statement on Wednesday.
That rage in India isn't over that exploitation. It's about the arrest and treatment of the diplomat. She is truly a poor standard to rally around, no?
Let's just hope that we don't send Vice President Biden to calm the crisis. We can at least compromise and admit we have certain levels of idiocy in common, can't we?
What a lovely Third World spectacle we are seeing in Mumbai (Bombay). Yeah, India will get that permanent seat on the UN Security Council any day now.
