Deepak Chopra, balloon hat wearer, enema advocate and terrorism expert[?], holds forth on the reason for the Mumbai terror attacks: It was all our fault. And by ‘our’ I mean the United States of America.

Chopra went on CNN to voice his deranged opinion.

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.”

To his credit, Jonathon Mann interrupted with some salient facts.

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.

Chopra conceded the point but went right back to his original suggestion like a bird dog on point: It’s all our fault.

Given an argument, the guest, ever a conciliator, agreed: The Mumbai catastrophe was not Washington’s fault, it was everybody’s fault. Which didn’t prevent Dr. Chopra from returning soon to his central theme — the grave offense posed to Muslims by the United States’ war on terror, a point accompanied by consistent emphatic reminders that Muslims are the world’s fastest growing population — 25% of the globe’s inhabitants — and that the U.S. had better heed that fact.

To which I immediately think: why don’t you have a frosty mug of Fuck You. We are not targeting muslims, you new age metrosexual aromatherapy concocting son of a bitch. And aside from pointing your fat finger at US, where is the denouncement of the attacks on innocent people? Bypassing the moral outrage makes me believe that you are of the opinion that these were legitimate attacks.

Here is the transcript from Chopra’s interview with Larry King on November 27th. Again he talked about how many muslims there are in the world, how fast they are growing, yada yada yada…

Chopra said something that I don’t fully understand during that interview with King:

And you know, one of the things that I think is happening is that these militant terrorist groups are actually terrified that [President-elect Barack] Obama’s gestures to the rest of the Muslim world may actually overturn the tables on them by alienating them from the rest of the Muslim world, so they’re reacting to this.

Anyone?

He also said: “And we cannot go after the wrong people, as we did after 9/11…” which shows him to be either blissfully unaware of anything outside of how many damned muslims there are in the world or someone who should do some reading. I’d suggest milblogs.