With the terrorist attack in Mumbai, India, for the past two days, CNN viewers in the U.S. have been getting the international CNN feed, rather than the mostly crap CNN usually plays in this country. When CNN is good, which is rare these days, you really can’t beat in, not on basic cable, anyway. So, now willingly watching CNN without the spectre of Lou Dobbs popping up, I caught an interview (actually, turns out it was a replay of a previous interview) of author Deepak Chopra talking about the so-called war on terror, U.S. foreign policy, and the potential, with a President Obama, for a major breakthrough with the world’s huge population of peaceful Muslims.I’m not really a big fan of Chopra’s books, but here he’s very down to earth and speaking passionately about the problems in this part of the world, which of course he knows very well, being from India. I wish I could force every American to watch this. That would be tyrannical, and against my core principles, so all I can do is put the video and transcript here and say, “pretty, please, America, get your head out of your ass and look at the world and our place in it realistically. Thank you very much!”This video begins with a news report of the situation in Mumbai, then Chopra starts just before 3 minutes in. The transcript below is actually of a different recent interview, by Larry King, but it covers the same ideas. (CNN) — The Indian city of Mumbai exploded into chaos early Thursday morning as gunmen launched a series of attacks across the country’s commercial capital, killing scores of people and taking hostages in two luxury hotels frequented by Westerners. Deepak Chopra says extremists could be reacting to Barack Obama’s gestures toward Muslims.Deepak Chopra says extremists could be reacting to Barack Obama’s gestures toward Muslims.CNN’s Larry King spoke with author Deepak Chopra about the situation.Larry King: Let’s go to Dr. Deepak Chopra, the physicia...

C-Span coverage of the attacks - and Deepak Chopra points out that the War on Terror turns moderates into extremists. With more than 100 dead and reports of up to 900 injured, the horrific events in Mumbai have now moved into a second day. Attacks by well-armed and organised Moslem terrorists, who targeted UK, US and Israeli nationals in particular and took hostages at top hotels in India's financial capital, have catapulted India's boiling sectarian feuds and regional tensions into the news this Thanksgiving. Some of the most up-to-date reporting can be found at India's NDTV.com.Given the nature of the attacks - coordinated across several targets simultaneously and using grenades and heavy machine guns as well as assault rifiles, the finger of suspicion was naturally first pointed at Al Qaeda by Western media. More serious conservative analysts are following Indian officials and are blaming Kashmir-related groups like the Lashkar e-Taiba, who were instrumental in carrying out bomb attacks in Mumbai in July 2006 and, very unlike the US right's response in 2006 when protecting Musharraf was high on the neocon agenda, this time even the Weekly Standard is making the connection between the LeK and Pakistan's ISI.It is too early to tell with any precision who is behind these attacks. The smart money is on the multi-headed hydra of terrorist and extremist groups based in Pakistan and Kashmir. Indeed, Pakistan’s intelligence service has waged a proxy war against India using terrorists for decades. The two nuclear powers have avoided a large-scale exchange, but the Pakistani ISI has repeatedly sponsored or aided terrorist groups targeting civilians in India. For example, Indian authorities were quite vocal in blaming Pakistan for the July 11, 2006 train bombings, which killed more than 200. Today’s attacks, if they are indeed a continuation of Pakistan’s proxy war, threaten to destabilize relations between the two nations further...All of the prime suspects have ties to Pakistani Int...