NOVEMBER is the beginning of our winter of hope, because 2004 was America's year of decision. Here is a country now so important that it looms over us as a center making us nervous. Living thousands of miles from the United States, we look over there anxiously: what will happen now that this November the majority of Americans have continued to support the power of President Bush?

We had no right to vote, and yet we too are crushed. We are p