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The Fight Against Despair
by Robert Thompson
This is the reply sent to a lady who, in writing to me,
describes herself as a "Sad American".
-o-o-o-
Dear D,
I found your message on getting up this morning, and, as
I have just said to my wife, it is enough to make one weep to think of
how your country has allowed itself to be driven by irrational
(carefully nurtured) fear into accepting the lies emanating from Mr Bush
and his régime. As I have written (perhaps far too) many
times, people who have not been taught to think and to analyse fall so
easily into accepting the simple, easy-to-understand lie in preference
to the complicated, difficult-to-comprehend truth.
A weak man, such as Mr George W. Bush, can always
pretend to be strong by bullying tactics when he is given any kind of
power, whatever limitations may be placed upon it by law and/or a
constitution. A strong person recognises that we are all
human, and thus have human frailties. To pretend otherwise
is in itself a form of weakness, but apparently (and I can only say this
as an admittedly ignorant outsider never having visited the USA, and
therefore subject to correction) this blustering show of confidence
goes down well with large numbers of voters in the USA, who are lazily
unwilling to make the effort to ascertain the facts.
You are absolutely right to think, as you so graphically
put it, that we in the outside world think of the USA as "the
big imperialistic bully" and we see no sign whatsoever of the "compassionate
nation", for which you yearn, in the behaviour of the present
administration. We are at least as keen as you are in
wishing to eliminate all forms of terrorism, but no-one can do this by
supporting some terrorists and at the same time spreading lies about other
opponents (whether internal or external) on the vague excuses (externally)
that they support terrorism or (internally) that they are weak on
combatting terrorism.
Obviously the whole world considers the invasion of Iraq
as having been aimed at securing supplies of oil (thereafter to be
squandered). Furthermore, it is only in the USA, or in the
minds of Mr Bush's most servile lackeys (such as the Scottish
"poodle", Anthony Blair, or the Italian "Mr Fixit",
Silvio Berlusconi), that one can find anyone who believes that it
this aggression was intended merely to remove a "nasty" or
"threatening" man. If, for example, one
starts on régime change for nastiness, there are more blatant cases
than the (certainly extremely unpleasant) Saddam Hussein, and some of
them (such as the country of the Bush family's friends, and Carlyle
Group colleagues, the bin Ladens) benefit from the constant unfailing
support of the USA.
When you write that Mr Bush "claims that God is
speaking to him", I have to repeat my oft-expressed view that Mr
Bush's god (with a lower-case 'g', of course) does indeed speak to him
all the time, but we have for many centuries known this god by its
Aramaic name of Mammon. As for voices speaking in Mr Bush's ear,
we have had a wry laugh at the joke (admittedly in very poor taste)
of his ear-piece during the television "debates".
We can only imagine what his puppeteers were saying to him through that
mechanism.
Well may you describe yourself as a "Sad
American", as the free world wishes to work with the USA, when it
once again becomes stable and democratic and is also once again willing
to work hard in unity in favour of freedom and basic safety.
Every good wish for you and your country
Robert
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