Is Mr. Jagdeo criticizing the Obama administration?

Jan 26, 2010 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

Some people do not know place and time. Mr. Jagdeo chose Iran of all countries to launch an attack on the United States. Certainly, the U.S. of George W. Bush is not the U.S. of Barack Obama. Mr. Jagdeo also castigated the U.S. for hindering a CARICOM mission to Haiti. There are explanations for why the U.S. has behaved like that. Airport logistics seem to be the problem. This is not the focus of this essay. It is the launching pad that Mr. Jagdeo chose to direct his castigations against the U.S. on Haiti
Why Iran? Iran is not an example of democracy. There are rulers in Iran that are worse than the Shah they overthrew. If you think the WPA has a psychological problem that bedevils its collective psyche because it overthrew Burnham and a worst regime came in, think of the thousands who are alive today that brought down the Shah to put in power these bestial dictators in Teheran that murder their people with increasing frequency. The Shah was Mandela compared to these brutal tyrants and religious murderers that stifle the Iranian people. The present Iranian Government is illegal. It came to power through rigged elections.
It should be charged for crimes against humanity because it shot down protesters in cold blood demonstrating against the fraudulent poll. More than this, it has been secretly hanging arrested protestors since last year. This is a tyrannical, demonic junta that the Iranian people must overthrow sooner than later. These murderous villains thought the Iranian people would forever live in their mental imprisonment but they got a rude awakening last year. The anti-fascist dictatorship has begun, and the religious demons that rule Iran have their days numbered.
It was a terrible place from which to launch his vexed feelings about the U.S. The United States Government under Obama cannot change in one year what George W. Bush has done for the past eight years before Obama took over. Even under Mr. Obama, the U.S. is open to criticism. The U.S. is not a paragon of virtue and condemnations of many of its policies are in order. But there is a moral obligation involved when one chooses to castigate a country for unbecoming policies. Another leader should not use the soil of a dictatorship from which to cast aspersions on democratic countries. Comparing Iran and the U.S. is like looking at a school boy who killed someone in a fight and Norman Bates
Mr. Jagdeo as Head of another State has not shown sound moral judgement when he lashed out at the U.S. while in the company of officials of the Iranian Government. In another forum that would have been permissible in accordance with protocol. For example, at one of his press conferences at a CARICOM Heads meeting, or at the UN. But not in Iran. Two reasons should tell us why. First, the U.S. and Iran are engaged in political confrontations. Even if the Guyanese leader doesn’t want to get involved, he should have eschewed any criticism of the U.S. Secondly, and more importantly, the U.S. is a friend of Guyana and not in the ordinary sense at all.
Our economy is bound up with the U.S. There is a sizeable Guyanese presence in the U.S. that is intricately connected to Guyana. And in the New York Diaspora whose livelihood the U.S. provides for, the very Jagdeo and his PPP acolytes will soon touchdown to beg for money for the forthcoming general elections. Realpolitik could only be the answer as to why Mr. Jagdeo attacked the U.S. while visiting Iran. It is that he may be swimming in an ocean of promises from his trips to the Middle East.
Mr. Jagdeo’s forte is not international relations. His balance sheet on that score equals his miserable performance on the economic front. Mr. Jagdeo will swim only in a mirage. He just learnt his lessons from the harshness of international relations by failing to collect the dozens of billion of American dollars from Copenhagen. Now he thinks he can collect from the Arab and Muslim world. Mr. Jagdeo is taking advice from people who probably have not read a textbook on international relations. The Middle East oil kings do not know where Guyana is, have not been interested in knowing what goes on in the Caribbean, are not interested in aid and trade with the Caribbean and will soon forget about Guyana. In the meantime, Iran may send a few Persian rugs while we wait for Libya to send some oil. Someone is fooling Mr. Jagdeo as he/she did with Copenhagen

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