SONTAG AWARD NOMINEE

“For US citizens living overseas, President George W Bush’s unilateral ultimatum to Iraq makes us all ugly Americans. We were potential targets for terror and abuse, like our fellow citizens back home; now we are representatives of the world’s leading bully. Our flag, which stood for the hopes of humankind now stands for disdain for diplomacy in favor of military intimidation. As they say in the cartoons, ‘Thanks a lot, George, thanks a lot.’ It remains an incredible feat that the United States has forfeited all of the world’s goodwill it won after the September 11, 2001, attacks, barely 18 months ago, and legitimized the view that Bush, not Saddam Hussein, not Osama bin Laden, not Kim Jong-il, is the greatest threat to world peace. It’s hard to imagine a term for a US attack on Iraq, as threatened by Bush, except for ‘terrorism’.” – Gary Lamoshi, Asia Times.