was it before the civil rights movement? was it before women had the vote? when was america great in the way we should get back to? the myth of the the golden age is always a myth. boris johnson right now in britain is trying to sell the idea of a golden age of england that could be restored if only all these inconvenient farmers would go away. mr. modi in india is trying to sell the idea of an ancient golden hindu age which has been ruined by the president and muslims. all three are doing the same thing. they re inventing history in order to justify the actions of presidents, and i think that s dangerous. it s a profound point, and it s also illustrative of the fact that if your campaign promise is nostalgia, you never have to be called on it because you re not running on anything real to begin with. exactly. you ve given us a lot to think about, salman rushdie. thank you so much. again mentioning the book, quichotte is out now. thank you, sir. thank you. and that does i
capital as india. absolutely. huge strengths in technology and science. and, again, i think there needs to be a popular wake-up call, that this isn t about isolated incidents of terror. that s what when malala was shot in 2012, it was about a brazen school girl. in 2013 it was shiites are a separate group. it is a deep terrorist threat in the middle of this country. it s like russia. pakistan, part of the tragedy of pakistan, is they have chased their best people away. you find the most erudite pakistan pakistanis in the diaspora. they have to find a which to bring them back. as often happens in these situations, the beneficiary of that flight is the united states. thank you all very much. wonderful conversation.
of the masterminds of the horrific attacks in mumbai. they have to understand terrorism is a unitary threat and join forces with prime minister modi in india and go after this as if they re all pieces of the same puzzle. haven t they gotten like 20 wake-up calls? i hope you re right but i see no historical evidence to support that. you have a weak, divided state. it s not a failed state but it s almost an endlessly failing state. they have had endless opportunities do this. it s the reason, quite honestly, pakistan remains in many ways the most frightening country in the world. 200348 people, 150, 200 weapons. many of the world s most dangerous terrorists all within a state unable or unwilling to expert its authority in large chunks of territory. this is the nightmare country in many ways in the world. pakistan is another one of these failed economies. it s a tragedy because actually in many ways it s the same human