POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY JEFFERY SIMPSON IN TORONTO'S GLOBE AND MAIL
Muscularity?
Is that what you call the killing of thousands of innocent
people - often women and children - by buzz-cut thugs at the controls of
computer games with real missiles?
Is that what you call having "kill lists" of
American citizens?
Is that what you call the horrors secretly initiated in
Syria?
Or the fact that the CIA's torture gulag was never dealt
with?
Well, muscularity has definitely been the image sought by
some governments. Posters of Mussolini typically featured that quality.
For Canadians and most of the rest of the world, it really
does not matter which of these sociopaths is elected.
Romney has always been an unattractive, nasty-minded figure,
and Obama has thrown off virtually every quality that made him once attractive
and a source of hope.
The only issue that makes any difference for the future of
world affairs between these two is their degree of subservience to Israel.
Romney literally grovels to the madmen now running Israel.
Obama, while not setting the standards of toughness towards
Israel required for genuine peace, has at least not quite grovelled.
And he has so earned the hatred of Netanyahu that that
lunatic is busy interfering in an American election with ads made for Florida,
a criminal act by the way under American law.
