Dear Editor,
A relative who has been living in the US for no less than 20 years returned recently and asked me why I am so against America and if I didn’t know how many people Ahmadinejad killed. I replied that I didn’t know but I had a pretty good idea how many people died in Iraq.
Of course my relative is not the only one; not so long ago another visiting American Guyanese learning who I am posed a similar question and asked why I was in support of Iran having nuclear weapons and was anti-America. Then in Toronto in October at a coffee shop last year a Canadian Guyanese also wanted to know why I am anti-America.
You see Editor, apparently those northern Guyanese only watch American news and of course read Stabroek on line while we over here watch Al Jazeera, RT and the BBC, and form our own opinions. I want my northern friends and relatives to know I try to live by the Gandhian principle: don’t hate the individual, hate the evil in the individual.
I am not anti-America and not anti-Britain. Nor anti anyone else. I am anti crimes against humanity and I am convinced that the destruction of Iraq was a crime against humanity, that sanctions against Iran and the killing of its scientists are crimes against humanity, and that wiping out whole communities in Afganistan and Pakistan is also crime against humanity.
I am certain if those people up north watch the different newscasts we watch over here they would get a better understanding of how the world works. Well, I am indeed pleased they read my letters in Stabroek News.
Yours faithfully,
W P George
