THE crisis in the Middle East, and America’s response, as captured in Dr. Prem Misir’s many letters in the Guyana Chronicle and Kaieteur News I find,are very enlightening. As a student of international relations Dr. Misir asserts in his letter that America’s traditional imperialist politics makes it incapable of genuinely intervening in another country’s affairs without it being to their own advantage. He commended President Barak Obama for the interest he has recently shown in Libya, but also insists that there was some inconsistency on America’s part, as shown in its calculated approach to the entire Middle East crisis.
Joey Jagan, in his letter to Kaieteur News, March 20, 2011, wrote that Misir was condemning America, only because traditionally, the PPP has been a more anti-American party, since Dr. Cheddi Jagan’s political ideology was of a more communist nature. According to Joey Jagan, Misir needed desperately to please the top brass of the ruling PPP elite, this being his only concern about the Middle East situation that’s currently unfolding.
I must say that I find Jagan’s letter a bit disingenuous. I was surprised that such a letter would come from a man whose father is a household name in Guyana, would dip himself in unethical journalistic writings. From this poorly-constructed letter, Jagan portrays himself as one of the worst letter writers in Guyana’s history. It is clear that he lacks any real conception of America’s changing foreign policy as a tool for American empowerment. It seems that he is now the official apologist of America. America’s history of interventions in other countries proves that it does not engage in battles that are not to its own advantage.

How does Joey Jagan know that the PPP has not changed its stance concerning its relationship with America? What he is describing is what occurred over his father’s lifetime, a very long time ago. Can he prove that the mass of the PPP adopts this line in relation to America? This son of Jagan is