Monday, December 1, 2008
Deepak Chopra, mush head: Deepak Blames America - The media look within to explain the sick delusions of the Mumbai killers.
...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."...
It is the defining characteristic of the New Age poppycock that the answers to all our ills can be found in the mirror. This is a kind of tolerable stupidity when you're talking about selling crappy books to gullible college students, but it's a bit more irksome when there's actual blood and guts on the floor.
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Why did they ask this digestion Guru for advice on counterterrorism? That's like asking Richard Simmons to fix the worldwide financial situation.
Digestion guru? I have a sample for him!
This moron isn't fit to comment on anything. I couldn't believe what I was hearing from this faith-healing con-man. But this is the same party line from Samantha Power and BHO himself. Read BHO's statement after 9/11, its the same vile nonsense.
How about
"If you have happy thoughts, then you make happy Muslims."
This guy reminds me of the vile arun gandhi.