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Why we should be worried about George W Bush
29jun02
THE world outside the US is now getting used to the fact Americans have a
fraudulently elected nitwit as their president, but George W. Bush excelled himself
this week with a "long-awaited" definitive speech on Middle East policies that
stretched even the weirdest imaginations. BRUCE WILSON in London reports:
US embassies around the world moved to "explain" the batty future Bush saw for
Israel and Palestine, but nothing could disguise that the bedbug was running the
White House and anything could happen next.
Hey, look. Even Tom Cruise is worried. In London this week he said he wanted his
adopted kids brought up outside the USA because of what happens inside the USA.
He listed terrorism and street crime, but very cogently he listed corporate crime as a
reason not to bring up kids in the old US of A.
Now, Tom Cruise is not a Grade A rocket scientist. In fact, he is a Grade A
Scientologist. On the whole, though, I would say he was brighter than George W.
Bush (along with my neighbour's catatonic cat) and it was most intriguing that he
named corporate crime as a reason not to want to grow up in America.
The WorldCom affair comes after the Enron affair while the Andersen affair simply
defies belief. It has become perfectly clear that major US corporations have been
running out of control, throwing billions of dollars into a kind of international
financial
black hole.
In vain you ask (as I tried to do), well, where has the money gone? I mean, if you
back a loser at Randwick, then you know where your money went. If these
companies have lost billions – $US3.8 billion in the case of WorldCom – why hasn't
somebody won it? Or got it? Where has it gone? Or, more to the point, did it ever
exist?
Of course it did, said the Doormouse. Otherwise, it could never have been lost and
17,000 people sacked for the lack of it. This is Alice in Wonderland stuff, capitalism
rattling around like a high- velocity round in a mental vacuum. Where was
government? Where was control?
Twenty years ago, when I lived in Washington, the US was said to have a trillion-
dollar-a-day economy that was so strong not even government could screw it. Now,
you have to ask if things have turned, that apparent fraudsters like WorldCom can
screw government.
Dubya Bush seems reluctant to address these issues. He is a Texan (although not
by breeding) and there they let things take their course, execute mentally deficient
minors, and generally behave like good old boys, taking the Chevy to the levee.
If it were not for September 11, Bush would be in serious political trouble in
America. He may be yet, in the mid-term November elections. His shocked nation
rallied around him as the personification of The Flag when the atrocities stunned us
all. His personal rating broke all records.
Since then, though, what? On this side of the Atlantic he is seen as a kind of
strange joke. Britons try to understand him, but in Europe they simply think of him
as a sort of circus act. The Middle East pronouncement was so absurd they didn't
know whether to laugh or simply ask the US senior political attache over for a
commiserating drink.
These concerns are based on the belief – that seems to be proven – that
Washington itself is a divided city. Colin Powell, in State, is trying to plead reason
over the clamouring voices in Defence, led by Donald Rumsfeld, clearly a man not
always entirely in control of his senses.
Bush is listening to Rumsfeld, and other strange voices – not least the Israeli Prime
Minister, Ariel Sharon. And, as he does, the US looks more and more to be a long
way away from the rest of the world.
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