Bush suffering from mental imbalance

THE EDITOR: There can be no doubt that the United States has done a lot of good in the world.

There can equally be no doubt that they will continue to do good. But if your justification for doing wrong is that you have done good in the past and will do good in the future, there is something dangerously wrong with your mental balance. Because you were right before and will be right again means that you are right this time is reasoning worthy of David Koresh or Jim Jones. And more and more George Bush is taking on the complexion of a dangerous megalomaniac of the same type.

It is regrettable that one of the consequences of the megalomania is that good people are being forced to promote George Bush’s agenda, no longer reluctantly on the part of Colin Powell, it appears. In defence of Bush’s irrationality, they ignore the reality of the thousands of Iraqis who will be killed in this war. Not to mention the millions who will die after the war, as they are dying now because of war sanctions. No consideration is given to the destruction of buildings, utilities, schools, hospitals, infrastructure that the Iraqi people have been painfully restoring since the Gulf War. After all, what is that to the United States? It’s just another Third World country where lives are of no consequence; it’s not as if they are real people, like US citizens.

The irony of it is that Bush’s rabidity is giving Saddam Hussein the opportunity to claim the moral high ground and to whip up hysteria among Muslims who justifiably feel that the western world is against them. None of this will matter to George Bush who has an agenda to fulfil, that is, to finish the job his father could not. Incidentally, Nelson Mandela has earned the right to criticise the US actions. The overthrow of apartheid came about as a result of the struggles of people like Mandela.

During the twenty-seven years of his incarceration, the US actively supported the South African government. Its change of heart did not come about as a result of a spirit lash or any qualms of conscience; it was as a result of international embarrassment over its support of racism. Long after the world has forgotten George Bush as another non-entity US president, (which is the real problem), Nelson Mandela will be revered as a hero. If people like George Bush had their way, Colin Powell would never be the US Secretary of State, nor Roy Austin US Ambassador to TT.

KARAN MAHABIRSINGH
Chase Village