Bush-Gorbachev Summit Meeting
The level of hypocrisy in recent American international diplomacy has attained new heights. It was truly nauseating to see President Bush’s eyes “well with tears” at the sight of Nazi atrocities in the Ukraine, while in the very next breath he stifled the aspirations of Ukrainians for their independence and ignored the countless millions of Ukrainians who died at the hands of Soviet butchery under Stalinist Russia (front page, Aug. 2). Bush and Gorbachev toast to their achievements towards “justice and democracy,” while they both support the ongoing blood bath of genocide in Croatia at the hands of Serbian communist thugs.
In President Bush’s “new world order,” we now have developing two superpowers essentially openly and brutally oppressing democracy and freedom the world over with the goal of maintaining a comfortable status quo.
Our beloved country was founded on the principles of liberty and justice for all, not just for those who possess power. We as Americans must insist that our current leaders respect those lofty principles and, if they do not have the courage to fight for them, at least not trample them; lest the history books of the future show the United States as yet another of the oppressive regimes of the past.
PHILIP C. DELICH
Templeton
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