KUWAIT CITY, Nov 30: While reviewing my work, I came across an article I wrote two years ago about some people keen on acquiring power by issuing threats and instigating crises.
At that time, we blamed His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Nasser Mohammad Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah for his patience although he spared no effort to serve the country and satisfy those who claimed to be patriotic and protectors of the Constitution, which they interpreted according to their whims, not based on reason and logic.
They acted like they were the only ones who cared about protecting public money but on the contrary they alone had the guts to steal public money, distort facts and convince people that others are a group of thieves.
These people had no sense of guilt when they deliberately hampered the implementation of state projects by raising doubts about everything to control public money and spend it, away from public projects in spite of the economic crisis which they have helped worsen.
Yes, we considered patience a weakness at that particular moment, while the prime minister wanted to know the whims of this group of politicians, but I also wanted people to know the goals of these men and what they wanted from this country.
From what we have gathered from sources close to the prime minister, we learned that he studied the goals of this group in the early years of his tenure as head of the Council of Ministers to arrive at a clear conclusion.
Your Highness, the truth is clear to you and to the majority of the people that this group wanted to control the powers of others. They misunderstood the meaning of freedom, thinking it is only about verbal abuse and humiliation of others who do not tow the line of their ideology. These people have become paranoid.
Your Highness, we now recognize your wisdom because you have continued studying the history of wise men and world leaders. Maybe, you have read the letters of Abraham Lincoln and Winston Churchill, and may have deepened your study on the life of these two men. I think you remember the famous Churchill saying when he was told that corruption prevailed in England and bribery was rampant in its institutions. He replied by asking: ‘What about the judiciary?’ He was told: ‘It is fair and independent and still fine. He replied, ‘So Britain is fine.’ This is actually the United Kingdom.
There is nothing wrong when some people scream, simply because we are free to do this. However, the government has to adopt a clear vision to better serve the public and exercise its power, which is guaranteed by the Constitution, instead of working to satisfy a few persons with loud voices.
Let us go back to the core of the matter. We have the so-called development plan for the next five years, which was approved by the Council of Ministers. We are currently facing a number of challenges, such as the political bargaining between the lawmakers and a few people, who have opposed the plan while a majority of citizens are closely following up the latest developments.
We look forward to the successful implementation of the plan for Kuwait to regain its glorious past. It is not bad at all that the private sector participates in carrying out the projects included in the development plan.
We do not expect the premier to satisfy everyone but he should work in the interest of the nation and its people, without giving in to the demands of those who claim to be defenders of public money and the Constitution even if they actually violate its articles and squander public funds.
During the American Civil War, when the South wanted to secede from the North, Lincoln led the war and kept the two together; thereby, maintaining the unity of America. He was told then: ‘You are fighting a war that is not consistent with the Constitution,’ He replied with a smile: ‘Which constitution are you talking about? Talk about the Constitution when I end this war, the unity of America is in danger, we are all in danger. Is this risk not greater than the risk of violating the Constitution? Go and dilute this constitution in water and drink it’.
Churchill, too, fought like a dictator in the Second World War and when he was told ‘You have to coordinate with the Parliament, he said, ‘Britain is governed by four million people who died in this war, not a hundred members of the House of Commons’.
We remind the prime minister that Kuwait is governed by those who are now affected by the cessation of development for many years. Development is a very important part of our country’s economy, without which, the stock market suffers. When the economy suffers, we shall also suffer politically because the real security is economic security.
HH the Prime Minister, you should read the biographies of Lincoln and Churchill well for you to know that they did not listen to people engaged in rhetoric or those who screamed. We hope you raise the slogans of these wise leaders.