Recently, Mr. Michael Murvihill wrote to The Northern Star comparing President Bush’s “leadership” and the U.S. position to that of Captain Kirk and the Starship Enterprise. Cute, but problematic.

First, this ain’t no allegory, Mr. Murvihill, it’s the real thing. It’s war! Quaint comparisons with the liberalist ideology of an old television show is not a good argument.

Second, positing “President Bush (as) captain of the United Nations Starship Enterprise” is pretty scary.

You have fallen prey to the New World Order “scamarooski” in which world hegemony will be administered by the benevolent, white, male leader of the capitalist free world.

The U.S.S. Enterprise was simply a code for capitalist imperialism.

Of course, a federation directive prohibited intervention in other cultures that possess different values, but that didn’t stop Jim and the boys—and a token female or two—from making believers out of many a heathen.

The latter translated as non-democratic and/or non-capitalist.

Last, but certainly not least, Bush has a “clear purpose”? At first Bush said we were protecting the “American way of life” and American jobs; when that became incredible, we began fighting “naked aggression”; and now we get the definitive answer, we are fighting for the New World Order.

What next? It’s all just a bunch of “Bushlip.”

Meanwhile, Bush tells us we must fight to “lead the world away from the dark chaos of dictators,” by using such tactics as forming alliances with one of the most brutal dictatorships on the planet, China.

Actually, one of the main reasons we are fighting and dying is to eliminate any threat to Israel. As Scud missiles fall onto Israel and make the front page, a few dozen more Palestinians are killed and relegated to page six.

Charles Dragon

Graduate student

Communication studies