POSTED COMMENTS TO A COLUMN BY JOHN IBBITSON IN TORONTO'S GLOBE AND MAIL
Well, they have just the man in the prime minister's office to accommodate their wishes.
For the next four years our dark bulk will give them everything they want.
And, of course, part of what they want is another Tony Blair, loyal puppy trotting around in whichever direction the master steps, licking the blood from his boots.
It's truly embarrassing being a lone imperial power ready to bomb the crap out of anyone who disagrees with your policies, so it greatly helps the American psyche to have guys like Blair or Harper there, ready on a moment's notice to join the fight and make it all look larger and more like a genuine cause than it really is.
We've just seen that with Libya, and I'm afraid we'll see a good deal more.
The Canadian people, I'm confident saying, do not support wars of aggression and intervention and coups abroad, but a government in office with 39.6% of of votes is capable under our system of completely subverting their wishes.
We have a deadly serious democratic deficit, and we are about to see under the dark bulk just how much death it can generate.
__________________________________
"A chastened United States is looking to Canada to help it carry the weight of the world."
John Ibbitson, with a sentence like that you should not be writing professionally.
Chastened? By the impact of its own immense excesses?
Help carry the weight of the world?
Who in God's name asked the U.S. to do this?
And what you really mean here is that it wants Canada to squander part of its resources, people, and reputation for the role of international water boy.
But that is nothing new.
Not many years ago we were being constantly harangued by the American ambassador and many others about not spending enough on the military and living off the protection of the United States.
The loudmouth, cryptoNazi Patrick Buchanan was one of many saying this in public.
