The Bush administrations which  includes Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney, who could have been soul mates of Stalin and other detestable politicians that have inflicted themselves on our world, have brought  back the Cold War by unnecessarily provoking the Russian Federation through the placement of missile batteries on the borders of Russia with the help of the Georgian and Polish governments and plunged the whole planet into a perilous situation which could even result in a nuclear war and the feared Armageddon

The Bush administration does not today represent the caring, warm hearted, generous people of the United States. It represents the interests of huge multi-national corporations and is an administration foisted on the world by war mongers to safeguard the interests of the huge US armaments industry.

It is with reluctance that I wish to recall the negative role played by the US in the affairs of our world over the years when she could have been an enormous force for the good of mankind; the actions of successive US governments have caused much misery and has far out-weighed the good that they have done.

Support for Apartheid regime

Let us first of all flag the support the US and Europe lent to the Apartheid regime in South Africa, recall Maggie Thatcher’s support for South Africa on account of British business interests including those of her husband Denis Thatcher; had the US and Europe sent South Africa to Coventry, the Apartheid regime would have collapsed far sooner than it did (thanks to the Soviets in particular).

Ask the Chinese how the US and the UK together once again, sought to sabotage the Tazara Railroad connecting Zambia ’s Mines to Tanzania ’s ports. The railroad was intended to break Apartheid South Africa’s hold on the southern part of the African continent. The same two countries prolonged devastating civil wars in Angola and elsewhere and staved off independence for Namibia in the name of fighting Communism. White South Africa with the assistance of the US and the UK was actively sabotaging its neighbours and destroying their infrastructure. They also supported discredited rebel groups to de-stabilize countries in Africa when they could not exploit their resources.

The man that the US and the UK in particular would love to lynch, Mugabe, stated in the Foreign Affairs Magazine some twenty years ago "Political and material support for desperate bandit groups, dissidents and discredited individuals by a super power like the United States is a prescription for chaos and instability in the international political system. Calling them freedom fighters does not make them any such thing".

This brings up a most interesting issue. Most people are perplexed as to why and how it is that this man Mugabe still survives, why have the people of his country, who are undergoing terrible hardships, and the neighbouring African countries not helping to dump him? Why is it that he still has a substantial following in his country? This is primarily due to the past actions of the US and the UK in Africa . 

1980 was when Ian Smith was compelled to ‘abdicate’ and hand over power to the native people of Zimbabwe. Till then both South Africa and Rhodesia, as Zimbabwe was known, were treated as honorary members of the west by not only Britain, but also by Europe and the US; they not only condoned but supported the exploitation of the native black people by the white migrant minority. So is it difficult now to understand why African leaders or their peoples do not put much store in the pious preaching by the western political leaders on the value of democracy?

The US and the western group also overlook any and every atrocity in countries where they have important economic interests in Africa such as the Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea or Angola to name but three of the oil and resource rich countries; it is these double standards that have eroded western credibility and made it possible for Mugabe to remain in power. 

supported dictators

Let us pause to recall what the US has done elsewhere. In Latin America, they supported dictators not only in Chile and Argentina but in many other countries where hundreds were murdered at will to safeguard US interests. The story of the CIA’s involvement in Chile and the overthrow of the elected government of Allende is chilling. Today the US opposes the nationalist governments of Venezuela and Bolivia. Its many attempts to overthrow Fidel Castro is, of course, legendry. Its support for the state of Israel (which it has secretly equipped with nuclear weapons) created by the West after the Balfour Declaration, to ease their conscience after centuries of persecution of Jews in Europe, has created the huge terrorism that is enveloping the entire planet in this age of nuclear proliferation. This is absolutely frightening.

The US has only to insist that Israel revert to its 1967 borders, stop building settlements in occupied territories and guarantee its security along with the international community, but the US which is being held hostage by the powerful Israeli lobby (read Professors Mearsheimer of Chicago University and Walt of Harvard on the subject)  would rather join in condoning the killing of the Palestinian people and their eviction from their lands to please the all –powerful Jewish lobby in the US despite the fact that the security of Israel is not vital to the security of the US.

President Bush has most recently done the most inhuman thing any one can do when he has vetoed legislation and permitted the continuance brutal torture in Guantanamo and elsewhere to extract information from those detained in the war against terror. Just imagine if an innocent man is tortured - how if the man or woman were somebody of your own

No moral right

Just think about it, what moral right has any US representative to point a finger at any other country for there would be three fingers pointing at them. Do we not recall what US troops did to the people of Vietnam? Not just the numbers of My Lai s but the use of Agent Orange from which the people there still suffer; and can we ever forget that the US de-stabilized Iraq on a completely false made-up story that they possessed weapons of mass destruction? How many thousands of innocent men, women and children have died and are dying each day including young Americans and for what? 

The world looks forward to the forthcoming presidential elections in the US in the hope that we would see an inevitable change in US policies towards the world. The globalized world of the 21st century, as it unfolds, will no longer be a uni-polar world, but the US would, because of its military and economic strength, be able to play a positive role to promote peace and prosperity and reduce poverty in our world if it is not held hostage to the most powerful corporate lobbies in the world whose interests have dictated policy in the past.