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http://www.tinyrevolution.com/mt/archives/002714.html

Bernard Chazelle:

The terrorist killers who took 102 innocent lives, all under the age of 1, have been identified. They are called malnutrition, dysentery, and respiratory infections. Indian authorities expect more deadly attacks in the days ahead. About 700 children are born every day in Mumbai: 34 of them will die in their first year — only 2 of them if they lived in France. “Which only shows,” said Friedman, “that India is 17 times flatter than France.”

Globalization has worked wonders for India: child mortality is on the rise and still higher than in that other economic powerhouse: Bangladesh. Despite economic growth averaging 9%, four in every 10 children in India are malnourished.

The comments section for the post is kind of annoying, but abb1 makes a good point, too:

Why, terrorism is a symptom of something, and high infant mortality is definitely a symptom of something. And they are probably symptoms of the same thing, except that nobody seems to care about the infant mortality. And what’s wrong with pointing this out?