President Obama has shown himself serenely at peace as a world leader during his recent trip to Saudi Arabia and the United Kingdom. As long as the states of the world remain sovereign, isolated and divided, the president’s power and the security of federal power in Washington escape jeopardy. Washington is eternally secure as long as the world outside the United States is eternally insecure. We all need Washington and Washington makes itself necessary by working with its financial and military might for worldwide peace and democracy. It fulfills for itself practical political possibilities by working for worldwide goals that are impossible. What a tragedy it is that the only government in the world that possesses already the means to create a real workable legal democratic worldwide union of states assiduously refuses to use it. Instead Washington sits back secure in its power and does nothing to create real tangible worldwide unity. The Congress in Washington since 1790 over a period of 170 years admitted 37 new states to its union. Now when hundreds of states around the world need to become new states of the United States to assure their existence as prosperous democracies, Congress, once a champion unifier, seems serenely blind to its own power. Its members do little more than offer the rich the pleasures of their votes at a price. They have no desire at all to unify the world even though they alone possess the power to really unify it. President Obama acts the role of a world leader perfectly. He finds himself serenely at home on a stage erected to produce no lasting and real result.
Daniel McNeill
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A powerful and very dramatic exploration of love and relations between
a 70-year-old man and four women, two sisters 18 and 19, their mother
46, and a lesbian friend 22. It is full of well-written dialogues between the five
In various situations including sexual relations. The drama moves fast right
from the start and it is impossible not to read it as quickly as possible (it
can be read in less than three hours} to an ending that is totally unexpected
and explosive. A complex drama that moves with its own momentum towards
one liberating ending to all its beginnings.
Daniel McNeill
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