12-01-2005, 12:59 PM
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There you go again , this time calling into question my intellectual honesty.First it was sarcasm,then i lacked insight and now I am intellectually dishonest Just because i disagree with you does not make me intellectually dishonest. In any event my intellectual dishonesty is not part of the debate. If you want to debate the issues well and good, but if you wish to hurl invective at me, i have no interest in debating you. If i have been factually wrong pl. feel free to corrrect me but simply to say arbitrarily that i am intellectually dishonest, tells me you are bereft of legitimate arguments,
As for blaming the British for every ill that India has where have i said that or implied that ? In fact I do not blame the Brits for anything. It is the Indians that i blame primarily for being gullible enough to be ruled by a distant land with one tenth the population of India, with less than 100,000 people. If anything i respect the British immensely. In particular i admire their patriotism and that they never do or say anything against their national interest.. Whatever the Brits did in India they did sincerely, secure in the knowledge that they were furthering the national interest of Britain
There you go again , this time calling into question my intellectual honesty.First it was sarcasm,then i lacked insight and now I am intellectually dishonest Just because i disagree with you does not make me intellectually dishonest. In any event my intellectual dishonesty is not part of the debate. If you want to debate the issues well and good, but if you wish to hurl invective at me, i have no interest in debating you. If i have been factually wrong pl. feel free to corrrect me but simply to say arbitrarily that i am intellectually dishonest, tells me you are bereft of legitimate arguments,
As for blaming the British for every ill that India has where have i said that or implied that ? In fact I do not blame the Brits for anything. It is the Indians that i blame primarily for being gullible enough to be ruled by a distant land with one tenth the population of India, with less than 100,000 people. If anything i respect the British immensely. In particular i admire their patriotism and that they never do or say anything against their national interest.. Whatever the Brits did in India they did sincerely, secure in the knowledge that they were furthering the national interest of Britain