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To the Editor
Anti-Americanism
I have a lot of foreign customers who come into Bangladesh for business. One in particular does millions of dollars worth of orders in Bangladesh each year. I first met him in 1983 when we had a tiny 80 machine factory employing 150 people. Now in 2003 my factory is ten times bigger and I directly employ ten times the people as well. Much of it is thanks to the continued patronage of my buyer.
He kept on doing business in Bangladesh back in '84 when we had to import even the paper cartons. He was here in '88 during the floods, he kept coming through the anti-Ershad movement, AL's civil disobedience movement during BNP's last rule didn't thwart him, he even came after 9/11.
In short this man is a true friend
not only to me and my workers but to our country. He is also a Jew and an American. But for the first time in 20 years he's scared to come to Dhaka. What should I say to him? The other while driving towards Mymensingh I saw half a dozen effigies of Bush. Our irresponsible press is drumming up this anti-war and anti-American feeling.
Can Mahfuz Anam control the possibly violent emotions that he and his fellow editors are happily fanning?
I don't own The Daily Star. I can't ask for it to be a fair and even handed paper. If it wishes to be extremist then that's its prerogative.
I just worry about what will happen to our country thanks to all this.
Kim
Dhaka
The Bush game
It's been a few days since the USA has started its attack on Iraq. Every morning I wake up and turn on my TV with a fear of the worst news, where the innocent Iraqis are being the victims of US attack. I'm eagerly waiting to see the reaction of the US government and the Americans if no nuclear/Biological weapon is found in Iraq. But I'm afraid at the same time assuming that Bush will probably not hesitate to implant some evidence of nuclear weapon there just to justify his attack on Iraq. This is indeed a sad time for the world.
These days, I don't really like to watch any American or British news channel because these media have become the megaphones of Bush government. Most of the Americans at this moment are brain washed by the government. Most of them believe what they see and hear in their news channels.
Yet, there are many Americans who hold human values and spirit and feel the suffering of the Iraqis and the Palestinians. But they are helpless and the US government identifies their demonstration of truth and justice as unpatriotic.
The USA is, presently, facing an economic turmoil and the average Americans are paying for Bush's arrogance. But truth will ultimately reveal itself and the American people will soon realise what dirty game Bush is playing!
Delwar Hossain
San Francisco, USA
I support America
A lot of people ask me why I support the war so strongly.
I think the Economist magazine says it the best. Some say that the West is hypocritical: that America has WMD's and so, for example, do
Pakistan and India, so why should Iraq be singled out? The answer is that dangerous weapons are far more dangerous when in the hands of dangerous people. The other fear is that war will bring instability to the region. What, though, by contrast, are the effects of Saddam on that stability? Without him, or another hostile regime in Iraq, Iran would feel less need to pursue its own weapons programme. Israel would feel less threatened. American and British forces would no longer be need to be based so provocatively in Saudi Arabia, Qatar and elsewhere.
The other argument for war is for the 25m Iraqis themselves. For them the UN's containment that is supported by France and Russia has been a disaster. Saddam, his family and his forces have been ruling Iraq by terror, maiming, torture and killing hundreds of
thousands of people and ruining the lives of many millions more. The critics ask why Saddam should be singled out when the world is full of such human rights abusers. To which the answer, first, is that he's clearly one of the very worst; and second, why not?
If you cannot deal with all mass murderers, should you therefore deal with none of them?
saladin
Dhaka
World Cup 2003
comes to an end
I have really enjoyed the World Cup 2003. Well I hope at least those people who love the game of cricket and those people love Australia enjoyed the tournament. The tournament was pretty much on the Australian side as they were unbeaten throughout this World
Cup. Their game of cat and mouse with the ball and the bat really paid off.
They were the champion in 1999 and they are still the unbeaten champion of the cricket world. The celebration in Australia will definitely heat up in the days to follow. There is one thing I want to say to the Australian team; 'Congratulation in winning the Cup; hope 2007 will be the same'. And as for the Indian team, well no hard feelings, at the end of the game the best team won and it was all about teamwork.
Rizwan Hussain Jabbar
Dhaka
"How I will fight Bush" ~
I am getting rather tired of all these letters asking for boycotts of American and British products.
75 per cent of our export earnings are generated by the garments industry. Half of that is earned from exports to the US. Of the balance the majority is shipped to the UK.
Would you like the US and UK to return the favour by boycotting Bangladeshi products?
The UK and US between them make up the lion's share of the foreign aid we receive. Boycott that too?
While you're at it, boycott the English medium schools for promoting O' Levels why don't you? See how far you get in this world with a French matriculation.
Boycott also the parliamentary system, liberty, justice, fair play, the rule of law and all the other pillars of civilisation.
Masood Rana
Dhaka