Collective criminality.

• Author: Page, Hugh
• Position: Letters to the Editor - Letter to the Editor

Adolph L. Reed Jr. paints a devastating picture of the situation in his hometown, New Orleans ("The Real Divide," November issue). I agree that the entire Bush cabal should spend the rest of their lives in jail for this malfeasance.

However, in a very morbid sense, Bush, et al., may be a Thor's thunderbolt shattering our post World War II quiescence. We permitted the throttling of Mossadegh in Iran, the deposing of Arbenz in Guatemala, the Vietnam War, Timor, the Iran-Contra debacle, the assaults on Cuba, the 1991 Iraq invasion, and the fraudulent 2000 election. Many more invasions simply were...