Letter: Bush’s acts would make a classic play

Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2006 | 8:28 a.m.

How would William Shakespeare portray George W. Bush and his administration in one of his plays if he were alive today? Bush's limited depth of knowledge of world affairs, inability to name world leaders and poor language skills is great material for a major Shakespearean comedy.

In six short years he has made the United States a nation scorned and hated as a warmonger state by a world majority, incited a fanatical religious sect to try to destroy us, and has turned friendly neighboring nations against us. We now worry about nuclear confrontation with North Korea and Iran, and embargoes by oil-rich nations.

Canada no longer supports us, and Mexico is openly hostile toward us. Mexico defies our border with impunity by encouraging mass migration of its poorest citizens, criminal elements and drug traffickers.

In an attempt to portray himself as the "education president," he has enacted the No Child Left Behind initiative without adequate funding, creating chaos in many states. Teaching to the test are code words for competence that levels all student achievement to the lowest in a school. His promotion of creationism and intelligent design as acceptable and comparable to evolution theory is an attempt to introduce religion into public schools.

The war against Iraq, the expanding national debt, scandalous fraud within his administration, the slow response to the Hurricane Katrina disaster, disregard for worldwide environmental problems and other acts of incompetence or indifference would supply Shakespeare with more than ample comedy background material today.

Virgil A. Sestini, Las Vegas