57Nawaz Now, as to the view that this is how anyone
who had suffered imperialism or colonialism would
behave: no, it’s not. Entire countries such as India,
were colonized. There’s a difference between what’s
happening in Iraq with the so- called Islamic State’s
attempted genocide of the Yazidi community and
how Gandhi acted in India. Let’s take Iraq as a
case study and think about it: What does killing
the Yazidi population on Mount Sinjar have to
do with US foreign policy? What does enforcing
headscarves (tents, in fact) on women in Waziristan
and Af ghan i stan, and lashing them, forcing men to
grow beards under threat of a whip, chopping off
hands, and so forth, have to do with US foreign
policy?
Harris This cata logue of irrelevancy could be ex-
tended indefi nitely. What does the Sunni bombing
of Shia and Ahmadi mosques in Pakistan have to
do with Israel or US foreign policy?
Nawaz Now, none of this means that there aren’t
problems in foreign policy. But we’ve all got to learn
as a community, as a society, to be more nuanced
in this debate. Earlier we mentioned the four
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