USA…The end of whom? [Archives:2003/627/Opinion]

“I've got to hand it to this Mr. Bushwhacker running the United States. He really knows that all that really matters in this world is muscle and everything else can just be thrown out the window”, said Mujahid to his friend Murshid, as they sat in the parking lot outside Central Bank of Yemen, waiting to sign out of work.
“No, my friend, in the modern age of globalization and rapid communications, it is public opinion that will really begin to shape the course of events in the world. The problem with Mr. Bush is the same problem that most arrogant world leaders, especially the leaders of Third World countries, are facing. They are still living with the attitude of the “public be damned” and they can carry out any of their whimsical chauvinistic drives. It is clearly a marked revelation to find that European democracies have been able to catch on with the stream that globalization gave rise to.” Murshid was getting into one of his long discourses on political development, for which he was famous for, before Mujahid cut in to cut his discourse short.
“Do you really believe that America could fall behind the times and let nations like France and Germany take over as movers of political opinion and human conscience? After all America is the birthplace of modern democratic society.”
“Don't corrupt history. It was France that started the tide of real democratic progress and institutionalized protest as a fact of life in human society. Moreover, the American Revolution was the product of the established social elite, who felt deprived of political participation, although they were taxed by the Crown of England. The French Revolution however was the product of intellectuals, who really saw no reason for the existence of human suffering, political oppression, and other forms of social injustice. Therefore, it only seems fitting that France should stand to lead in standing up to world public opinion and defy the weak morals of arrogance and down to earth chauvinism, which a new world order in the era of globalization, should just never accept.” Mujahid was setting things straight for Murshid.
But Murshid paid him no mind: “Don't give me all this idealism jive, you know and I know that in the end it is rockets and bombs that will prevail amidst all this passing wind of popular resentment.”
Murshid remarked excitedly: “You call it passive resentment! Do you know that never has world opinion been united against anything, as it has been today against American persistent intransigence. It is really refreshing to see al those millions of faces telling the Goliath of the world, 'Look Gringo, we have had enough of your bullying around in this world. It is time that we start to look at the real concrete issues of the world. There are millions of starving people in the world. The environment is being annihilated by your factories and cars. AIDS is literally taking the life out of most of the populations of the world. There is oppression, dictatorship, and economic exploitation that are preventing the majority of the people of this planet from achieving any meaningful human development with a big chunk of them on the verge of starvation. Yet, a man like Mr. Bush, is ready to spend hundreds of billions of his people's hard earned money on meaningless adventures that serve only the desires of Zionist ideologues, whose chauvinism is sending America down the road of dead and forgotten nations, that used to be once called 'great nations'.”
Mujahid looked at his watch and the CBY hall to see if the staff were beginning to sign out and then said: “Don't get carried away with your thoughts, there is still a lot of America to see, before we can start to think about its collapse. There is also a lot of conscience being stirred up in America, which is saying that their leadership is just wrong. I have heard distinguished Senators, writers, artists, intellectuals and even American gung-ho conservatives, say to Mr. Bush: 'you are putting us on the wrong hay ride Mr. President!' I just can't see America going in one direction and the rest of the world going in another.”
Murshid started to get up saying: “It is comforting and disturbing at the same time to see that there is vigor in international public opinion while in the nation, where all this matters the most-the Arab World-protestors are only allowed to express their opinion inside barricaded yards, by the forces that continue to maintain dictatorial control of all their lives. When will these Arab leaders ever see the light?”
Mujahid also got up and said: “When will they all just pack up their bags and get out. After all, they are the reason for all our headaches. Don't ever expect them to see any light!
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