American scholar reflects on the characteristics of an ideal U.S. President

by Dr. Charles Mercieca [Excerpted]

The ideal U.S. politician that is fit to assume high political offices, including that of the U.S. President, needs to be one who respects the sacredness of life not only from conception to birth and but also from birth to natural death. But this is not enough in no way whatsoever. He or she must also be one who puts top priority in national expenditure on the vital needs of the people where they could enjoy free education and free health care from the cradle to the grave, where the homeless could be provided with adequate home facilities, and where hunger becomes non existent.

The ideal U.S. President is one who gives priority to the needs of the American people and, as a mater of fact, to the needs of people in the entire world over the greedy interests of big corporations, especially those that produce lethal product that is harmful to one’s health and to human survival. He or she is one that would replace foreign U.S. military bases with humanitarian agencies capable of providing good education and adequate medical care to people of such respective nations and elsewhere. He or she must be one that has the courage to change the structure and purpose of the military and thereby assume the leadership to set an example to leaders of other nations to follow suit.

The present U.S. military ships roaming the waters of other nations under the assumed guise of “protecting American interests” should serve as floating hospitals and agents of life to bring health where sickness is found, to provide medical care where it is missing, and to bring people of various nations to work together to create a permanent peaceful world.

The ideal U.S. President would be one who tries to deal with all nations through sound and healthy diplomacy, where the using of lethal weapons and the waging of wars would never be viewed as an option not even remotely. When it comes to voting and electing public officials, the American people are often faced not with the choice of the better of two goods but rather with the choice of the lesser evil.

About the writer:

Charles Mercieca, Ph.D. is the President of the International Association of Educators for World Peace that is dedicated to United Nations Goals of Peace Education, environmental protection, as well as human rights and disarmament. He is also Professor Emeritus, at Alabama A & M University.

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