Can't we mind our own business

By Arafat Islam Dallas, Texas
5 December 2004, 18:00 PM
It's indeed great that people in our country is concerned about US politics. Everyday we are seeing many articles published about the recent election. Most of us are concerned about the outcome of the election and we are trying to blame the American citizens for choosing George Bush as their President. But I think the Americans are matured enough to choose their own President and they know who is better for them. Why do we think President Bush was not a good choice? Just because he went to war with Iraq does not make him a bad President. He made it clear that he would go to war with any country to make America safer. This is what the Americans want, they want to be safe and they do not want another 9/11.

Mr. Kerry was a very good candidate but he did not have that extra guts Mr. Bush has, and the voters wanted their President to be courageous. It is also true that voting for Mr. Bush does not mean that the voters support the ongoing war in Iraq. I live in Texas and here almost everybody voted for Mr. Bush but of them very few think, going after Iraq was a right decision by Mr. Bush. Security, by far, topped the agenda during the campaign and Mr. Bush was very precise about his views in this issue. As a result, the citizens of America made him the President.

It is we, the Bangladeshis, who always vote without thinking. We select war criminals of 1971 as lawmakers. We chose terrorists of so called "Bahinis" as lawmakers. When we cannot properly chose our leaders, we have no right to comment on other people's choice. It would have made no difference if Mr. Kerry became the President. From a Bangladeshi point of view, I think we should be more concerned about our own politics, so that we choose the right person to lead us. The people of Bangladesh are very interested in politics but do we show sense while executing our voting rights, remains the question. The critics in our country who are worried about the US election, please write about the wrong doings going on in Dhaka rather than writing about what went wrong in Ohio. Nothing went wrong in Ohio, the people of America executed their voting rights and they chose Mr. Bush as their President, we can't help it!