Good bye world....
At the time the cold war seemed to many people a terrifying period of human history. The bay of pigs crisis, in which the president of the USA, JF Kenedy and the President of the USSR, Nikita Krushchev, appeared to be threatening the world with a nuclear conflict, defined a the way a whole generation thought about war and peace. With hindsite, one can see that, terrifying as it all was, the balance between the super powers actually made the cold war a stable and, in many ways, peaceful period. Now, the United States has no clear rival in the world. There is no Mr. Krushchev to bang his shoe at the United Nations table and say, "Nyet, Nyet, Nyet".
Alas the American have a president that sounds more like Dr. Strangelove, the crazed nuclear warrier of Peter Seller's satirical film. We read that President Bush has plans to fight 7 countries with nuclear weapons, China, Russia, Iran, Iraq, North Korea, Libya and Syria.
Defenders of President Bush think that the important question is whether we would rather live in the United States or take up resisdents in an axis-of-evil-country. It isn't.
Of course, we would almost certainly prefer to live in America than in Iraq. That does not mean that we think it is healthly of the world if President Bush has absolute power, and speaks of nuking his enemies.
In fact the circumstances in which this man was elected president are almost as dodgy as those by which President Mugabe wants to fix the elections in Zimbabwe. Only 50% of Americans electorate voted, and he won by a very dubious whisker in a state of which his brother just happens to be the governor. So the vast majority of the American electorate did not vote for Bush.
The horrifying Donald Rumsfeld is clearly urging Bush and the whole insane American cabinet to wage a nuclear war on the people of Iraq.
This is the regime to which a supposidily labour prime minister of Great Britain has been cosying up to since the 11th of September.
Gone is the old language of nuclear weapons as a "last resort". Mr Bush is contemplating a genocide every bit as wicked as the the massacres perpetrated by Saddam Hussein, Slobodan Milosevic or Robert Mugabe.
How ones misses the old Soviet Union to stand up to this sort of lunacy.
Alas the American have a president that sounds more like Dr. Strangelove, the crazed nuclear warrier of Peter Seller's satirical film. We read that President Bush has plans to fight 7 countries with nuclear weapons, China, Russia, Iran, Iraq, North Korea, Libya and Syria.
Defenders of President Bush think that the important question is whether we would rather live in the United States or take up resisdents in an axis-of-evil-country. It isn't.
Of course, we would almost certainly prefer to live in America than in Iraq. That does not mean that we think it is healthly of the world if President Bush has absolute power, and speaks of nuking his enemies.
In fact the circumstances in which this man was elected president are almost as dodgy as those by which President Mugabe wants to fix the elections in Zimbabwe. Only 50% of Americans electorate voted, and he won by a very dubious whisker in a state of which his brother just happens to be the governor. So the vast majority of the American electorate did not vote for Bush.
The horrifying Donald Rumsfeld is clearly urging Bush and the whole insane American cabinet to wage a nuclear war on the people of Iraq.
This is the regime to which a supposidily labour prime minister of Great Britain has been cosying up to since the 11th of September.
Gone is the old language of nuclear weapons as a "last resort". Mr Bush is contemplating a genocide every bit as wicked as the the massacres perpetrated by Saddam Hussein, Slobodan Milosevic or Robert Mugabe.
How ones misses the old Soviet Union to stand up to this sort of lunacy.
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