who is the author of this piece which begins:
Arthur Miller, not my favorite playwright, is nevertheless opening a
new play in Minnesota, "Resurrection Blues," which attempts to
satirize the vicious and absurd state the world has gotten itself into
recently.
And the world certainly has ventured into the absurd. Marxist
guerrillas setting off bombs to protest the inauguration of Colombia's
new president kill mostly the poor in Bogot slums. We, of course, kill
500,000 Iraqi children because they (presumably the children) won't
overthrow Saddam Hussein.
Saddam's neighbors say publicly and directly to the president that
they oppose an American attack and do not feel threatened by Saddam,
and how does the president reply? In the most absurd fashion, like a
dummy cut off from all outside communications, he says, "Saddam is a
threat to his neighbors," while 6 feet away one of those neighbors,
Jordan's King Abdullah, had come specifically to urge Bush not to
attack Iraq.
When I look at some of Bush's statements I find it impossible to
imagine Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman or Dwight Eisenhower making
them. I cannot imagine any of the three flatly contradicting a guest
in the presence of the guest on a matter of fact on which the guest
obviously has the most direct knowledge. How does Mr. Bush know better
than the king of Jordan that Iraq is a threat to Jordan? |
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