John;

I have been saying for some time that GWB and his administration have in a relatively short period of time dissolved relationships with other nations which took decades to create, lack diplomacy (that is being kind), and are belligerent and threatening. Our nation and the world are very dependant upon our federal government and its leaders. It is amazing how a “democratic election” (or was that a fisaco?) has put us in our present position.

There is more to leadership than choosing your favorite candidate. I am fully confident that GWB will be re-elected. Perhaps the same way he won the last election. People get what they deserve but unfortunately, the world will have to suffer as well as the United States.

We have a two term limit for President. Do you think the world can last until then?

Tom


>Fabian
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>Thanks for the kind words.
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>in the interests of further discussion, the attached is a letter from Professor Dawkins to the Guardian on 6 March 2003.
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>"The distorting mirror of Munich and appeasement is held up with irritating regularity (Secret UN plan to take over Iraq, March 5). George Bush is said to admire Churchill, but the comparison is vain...
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>Turn it round. Who is the petulant bully, the "bloodthirsty guttersnipe" today? On February 16, the Observer reported that the Pentagon had been ordered by Donald Rumsfeld to impose sanctions to punish Germany for leading international opposition to a war against Iraq. "We are doing this for one reason only: to harm the German economy." Yesterday you quoted Colin Powell as warning that time is running out: "Either the international community's will has meaning or does not have meaning." One might have hoped that the will of the international community would mean whatever emerges from the deliberations of the UN. Apparently it means the unilateral will of the current US government. Most chilling of all, you report that Bush himself has warned Chirac "he will neither forgive nor forget if France continues to oppose the resolution".
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>Where should we look for our Chamberlain? Jack Straw warns that Washington would abandon the UN and Nato if Europe refuses to fall into line: "What I say to France and Germany and all my other EU colleagues is take care, because just as America helps to define and influence our politics, so what we do in Europe helps to define and influence American politics ... And we will reap a whirlwind if we push the Americans into a unilateralist position in which they are the centre of this unipolar world." If that is not appeasement, I'd like to know what you call it.
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>Richard Dawkins