"With the White House averting its eyes, the largely Muslim Pakistani
Army killed at least 300,000 Bengalis, most of them Hindus, and forced
10 million to flee to India. Bass lays out his indictment of the White
House: Nixon and Kissinger spurned the cables, written by their own
diplomats in Dacca (the capital of East Pakistan), that said West
Pakistan was guilty of carrying out widespread massacres. Archer Blood,
the counsel general in Dacca, sent an angry cable that detailed the
atrocities and used the word “genocide.”" Mr. Filkins who cheerlead the US invasion of Iraq, which resulted in the death of much more than 300,00 and which triggered wars in neighboring countries, is outraged; he is morally outraged.