Bertina Miller's questions about your current constitutional problems
leads me to ask the following. As a visitor here in the US for the
least couple of months, my response to people who ask my opinion has
been along the lines of : as a citizen of a country which has no vote
for your president but which is nonetheless very influenced by what the
US and its president does (see the bombing of Iraq, for example), I
would be glad to see your House and Senate and President get back to
their usual jobs. (This has seemed a reasonably polite way of
proceeding). My question is (prompted by the Devil's Dictionary and by
an article which Margaret Sargent sent me about women's representation
at international environmental conferences) does this weird
preoccupation of the US political elite (I use the term loosely) free
space for the rest of you (us, even) to achieve some important things?
Or is it (the apparent preoccupation) just a smokescreen behind which
business as usual is carried on? It looks very naive, set out like
that, but what do you think?
Susan Hoyle
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