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Old 24th September 2006, 03:51 AM   #47
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Originally Posted by ariel
( and even primitive Arabs and barbarous Turks learned how to pick their noses from the highly cultured Iranians they defeated time and time again)....

...Nadir Shah's military exploits are no less than "brilliant" and a brief mention of his invasion of Delhi does not go into pesky details of pillage, plunder and mass slaughter of civilians.

There is such thing as a viewpoint and then there is bias.
There is national pride and then there is jingoism.
And there is civil, constructive criticism and then there is gratuitous, sarcastic and rude editorial commentary.

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