POSTED RESPONSES TO AN EDITORIAL IN TORONTO'S GLOBE AND MAIL
Mmm, I wonder why the Globe doesn't advocate this approach
to the United States?
After all, not a year goes by the US isn't ready to start a
new war.
And all it does in places like the Middle East is supply
weapons and threats against any nation Israel chooses to frown at.
And while China is not a free society, it does not have
killer drones patrolling its skies and those of a half dozen others to kill
people without charges or judicial procedure of any kind.
And, please remember, for about two centuries, the United
States has arrogantly asserted its right to the entire hemisphere to be free of
all foreign influences.
What China is doing is no more than - and indeed perhaps a
good deal less than - the US would do in a heartbeat were anyone else's ships
to enter the Gulf of Mexico or Gulf of California or the St Lawrence without
their approval.
Your editorials in almost all matters anymore too much
resemble the Stephen Harper influence - that is, the influence of the
Republican right wing.
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Truly, the Globe either needs to upgrade the quality of its
editorials or give up the practice of publishing them.
This one, as a number of readers note, not only reflects
ignorance of the area and its history, but an attitude of willful ignorance as
to what the US is doing in Asia today.
One can only guess that harridan Hillary's State Department
is using the Philippines as stalking horse here.
The United States has long implicitly (in public) claimed
the Pacific Ocean as its lake.
That's what was behind so many events from their constant
provocations of rising Japan to the Vietnamese Holocaust.
And Obama's recent policy assertions about Asia are more of
the same.
I'm genuinely concerned that the United States will keep pushing
China to the point of war.
That really is how brutally stupid Washington is.
