The sun wouldn’t rise in war

THE EDITOR: Here I am in an effort to put my hand in fire for the pastor of the Church of the Firstborn Assembly — a Sangre Grande based organism.

When he said on a morning call-in radio programme that he loves war, he was saying that it brings about decisiveness in political rulers. That does not mean that his comparison of former prime minister Basdeo Panday with the Iraqi ruler Saddam Hussein is factual. Be that as it may everyone is entitled to his or her opinion. The real problem is the enforcing of one’s opinion upon others in the guise of fact. This is a consolation for those who support the rising sun. Saddam believes that he is a descendant of the Chaldean general Nebuchadrezzar who carried the Jews into Babylonian captivity. The Butcher of Baghdad went far enough to restore the Babylonian architecture only to see them bombed during the 1991 American-led air raids.

The region of Bazrah is mentioned under the spelling of Bozrah in the Old Testament and it is prophesied to be a waste land where no Arab would pitch his tent. Jer 49:13; Isa 13: 20, 18-19. Basra (Bazrah) is the intended bombing site again and the confrontation of Baghdad towards the no-fly zone is rather debilitating as American guided warheads are being prepared for lift-off. There are people who are not seeing red yet they are taking to the streets in the form of demonstrations and to the political front in the form of the United Nations Security Council.

JEFFREY M JOSEPH
Fyzabad

PS Mr Panday will be the first man to hop into a plane should a red hot war break out here! That’s the difference.