We are witnessing the most vicious attack on the Left's patriotic credentials. This is a new form of McCarthyism, which betrays malignant intolerance for anyone who dares to question the nuclear deal from the Left.
'This insanity must stop. Or else, the State will lose its legitimacy in the eyes of the people. Then, the Maoists will have achieved their purpose of discrediting not just the State, but democracy itself.'
'No chief minister there has completed a full term other than Sucheta Kripalani in the mid-1960s.'
'It claims a higher loss of social time than strikes and lockouts do in industry.'
'Can the Congress leadership summon up the will to effect change?'
The grotesque irony is that while Hussein was hanged for killing 148 people, the leaders of the US and its allies won't be tried for killing half-a-million Iraqi children through the post-1991 sanctions, nor for the death of 655,000 Iraqi civilians.
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