Pete
5th April 2003, 04:50
This is a Joradian look at America.
Why should America be an exception? Why should President George Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and (very ironically) Secretary of State Colin Powell be any different from Joseph Conrad's Kurtz? In the case of the latter, it is ivory in the Congo enveloped in idealism; in the former, it is Middle Eastern oil wrapped in a lot of hocus pocus about freedom, democracy and ridding the region and the world of evil.
Full Story (http://www.aljazeerah.info/Opinion%20editorials/2003%20Opinion%20Editorials/April%202003%20op%20eds/4%20op%20eds/America%20between%20the%20colonial%20and%20the%20p ostcolonial,%20Ahmad%20Y.%20Majdoubeh%20aljazeerah .info.htm)
Why should America be an exception? Why should President George Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and (very ironically) Secretary of State Colin Powell be any different from Joseph Conrad's Kurtz? In the case of the latter, it is ivory in the Congo enveloped in idealism; in the former, it is Middle Eastern oil wrapped in a lot of hocus pocus about freedom, democracy and ridding the region and the world of evil.
Full Story (http://www.aljazeerah.info/Opinion%20editorials/2003%20Opinion%20Editorials/April%202003%20op%20eds/4%20op%20eds/America%20between%20the%20colonial%20and%20the%20p ostcolonial,%20Ahmad%20Y.%20Majdoubeh%20aljazeerah .info.htm)