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Absurd World 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? There is no end to absurdity. Mr. Bush's position is, in a screwball way, a compliment to Saddam Hussein. Deterrence worked against Josef Stalin, one of the greatest mass murderers in human history, even though he was armed with a million times more weapons of mass destruction than Iraq, but, in Mr. Bush's view, it will not work against Saddam. Then, too, there is the absurdity of the United States simply deciding on its own that the government of a sovereign nation has to be changed by force. How would you feel if the president of China announced that the United States was part of an axis of evil, was a threat to its neighbors, had gassed its own people (Davidians at Waco) and therefore China was going to see to it that there is a change of regime in the United States? The other day, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld simply stated, without any evidence, that members of al- Qaida are in Iraq. A few facts: The government of Iraq is secular and views Islamist fundamentalists such as al- Qaida as vermin; The New York Times has reported that some outside fundamentalists, possibly al-Qaida, have moved into the Kurdish areas of Iraq. The Kurds, split among communists, nationalists and fundamentalists, are "America's allies," with an 80-year-history of failed revolts — not a few of them because the United States cut and ran, as the CIA did most recently in northern Iraq. I personally was glad to see that Saudi Arabia flatly said "no" to any American military action against Iraq based on Saudi soil. When we have a president who seems unable to listen to advice, who seems almost inhuman in his ability to repeat obvious falsehoods, then we have to rely on other countries to force some restraint. We have no reason whatsoever to go to war with Iraq. Iraq is not a threat to its neighbors or to us. No evidence whatsoever has been found linking Iraq to any terrorist act against the United States in the past decade. And who governs Iraq is none of our business. I don't know what the real reason is for Mr. Bush's determination to go to war with Iraq. Probably it has to do with oil. Iraq has more oil reserves than any country on earth except Saudi Arabia. If it could get its oil production back to its prewar level, the world price of oil would certainly drop. It can't get its production back up, however, because we won't allow it to buy the equipment necessary. 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