Now see, he has struck again -- the imperialist. So impeach him -- right now. It is not history crying over the end of morality. Professional third worldists and rusted anti-imperialists are out there in the marketplace of dead ideas, wailing over the American aerial atrocities against humanity.

What is this terrorist upto? Bankrolling murder and revenge? Banishing morality and conscience? They are not talking about Osama Bin Laden, who is, after all, a defender of faith and a campaigner against white horror. Their subject of impalement is the American president, who, symbolically, is a living negation of everything that is third-worldist ormoral.

For the cause junkies, rally-worth subjects are subjects rejected by history, worship-worthy heroes are rogues sustained by terror. Preserve the third-worldist in a museum of arrested minds. For the anti-imperialist, a one-way ticket (or reimbursement in dollars) to Baghdad will do.

For mere academic interest, look at their vocabulary. Anti-imperialism. In terms of civil society, it really has no relevance. Today, the social paranoia of the socialist lies orphaned outside the society, which has achieved a harmony between alien and local cultures long ago.

In the cultural cafes of the global village, there are rhetoricians of `our values' who speak against the evils of Godzilla with an American accent. And the young democrat of Tiananmen won't be shot down if he eats Big Mac.

Anti-imperialism is not even radical chic. It is the last resort of the intellectually challenged. The Indian anti-imperialist lives on a language shoplifted from the souvenir markets of history. And third worldism.

Itis a mindset. The so-called non-aligned third world is an idea sustained by killers masquerading as liberators, endorsed by professional anti-imperialists. For African despots and mideast butchers and socialist thugs, third worldism marinated in anti-imperialism is politically essential for survival. As it is a rhetorical nutrition for India's loony left and non-aligned geriatrics. When you have no national interest, you serve the interests of, well, you know whose.

The imperialist knows quite a deal about national interest. The anti-imperialist (or the third worldist) lives in a space outside history -- or the nation. Even Nelson Mandela -- yes, the Mandela of every third worldist -- has refused to subordinate his national interest to the rhetoric of struggle and liberation. But there are quite a few Indians who continue to live in the fairytale world of imperialist evil and third world idealism.

That is what happens when fossilised minds confront the new world where every war, every bomb, is anassertion of national interest. India has suffered the burden of borrowed jargons for so long. When India wakes up, only dead minds protest.