Bush of Arabia
If Clinton was the first American Black president, President Bush by the far is becoming the first American Arab president. Hear me out and don’t drop your beer. Besides the fact that he speaks English as a second language, just like most Arab leaders he is an incompetent xenophobic man; he is provincial religious leader who keeps his power by appeasing to his religious conservative base. He is averse to traveling and for him knowledge is a dangerous beast that should kept under the secure blanket of his ignorance. He is anti-progress, anti-intellectual, with a low threshold for real democracy, and has a great affinity for abusing power and constitutional rights. As a Bedouin cowboy who would rather work with horses than people, our compassionate conservative president showed his true colors right after 9/11, where his heart and loyalty really lay. His temperament became reactionary, and his behavior turned America back to the Wild Wild (not to mention violent) West. A paranoid desert leader who invaded two countries in two years, declaring war on imaginary enemies, in spite of the fact that terrorism is a technique and not a place or an ideology, he makes his decisions not based on careful deliberation but based on looking people in the eyes. He is a man with great loyalty to his tribal friends - an oilman with an energy policy that most profits whose biggest benefactor is the oil corporations with billions of dollars in profits. Exxon Corporation alone is terrorizing the American people more than Al Qaeda by holding us hostages to its exploitive energy monopoly. An anti- intellectual president who prefers military confrontation than intellectual confrontation, uses plain language to articulate simple thoughts of complicated issues, doesn’t travel much short of his tribal royal tent in Crawford, Texas, and proudly shows his disinterest in others culture or ideas. In other words, he is becoming an Arab Bedouin president with a whopping $900 trillion budget to blunder on his desert fantasies.
Ahmed Tharwat/ Freelancer writer
Host of the Arab American TV show
Belahdan