Yesterday at a press conference in Iran, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said, " I announce that I am fully prepared to debate world and international issues with George Bush in a televised debate." A White House spokesman immediately dismissed the challenge as a " diversion". Diversion? What could be more important than avoiding deaths and violence? Isn't talking about differences a better way to go than launching preemptive war attacks ?
Bush didn't respond personally. He had an aid do it. This method is both cowardly and rude. Is our mental midget president involved in a more pressing, important engagement that he can't talk to the President of Iran in public or private about so timely an issue like war or peace? Could Bush say anything that wasn't pre-scripted? Does Bush have the ability to speak extemporaneously and intelligently about foreign policy or other peoples cultures? The answer to those questions is sadly, no.
The world's view of America and it's president fell another notch yesterday. Iran's president offered a humane and intelligent gesture to avoid misunderstanding and possible violence. But our so-called Christian-values president declined. Bush would rather be alone and unmoved with his feelings of hate and paranoia about other people who are different from him and his kind.
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