{UAH} A lesson in moral authority
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Byline: Letters to the Editor
Regarding the Jan. 17 editorial "Uganda's election travesty":
I started traveling to Uganda for work in the health field (for the World Health Organization and then U.S. Agency for International Development) when Idi Amin was president and returned several times in the 1980s to 2000s under President Yoweri Museveni. Uganda is a very interesting country with good work in the health field, even though there is lots more to be done. The results of its election were no surprise, and the hypocrisy of now-former secretary of state Mike Pompeo saying "political violence, repression and intimidation have no place in democracies" was particularly galling given the big lie and the insurrection on Jan. 6. Of course, the Museveni government replied that "the election crisis in the United States had deprived it of moral authority to judge Ugandan elections."
How many more dictatorships will be saying that? How long will it take, if ever, for the United States to regain moral authority?
Jeff Spieler, Rockville
"A lesson from Uganda in moral authority." Washingtonpost.com, 20 Jan. 2021, p. NA. Gale Academic OneFile, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A649179869/AONE?u=unihull&sid=bookmark-AONE&xid=81c13d79. Accessed 16 July 2021.
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*Abbey Kibirige Semuwemba*
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"Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive." - Henry Steele Commager 1902-98
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