POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN TORONTO'S GLOBE AND MAIL
Peter MacKay, as always, talks as the fool he is, a fool who
doesn't understand the extent of his own foolishness.
Among the Harper government's clearest achievements in
international affairs is reducing the country to a length of soiled toilet
paper trailing from the Pentagon's rear end.
We have zero interests in Mali and zero interest in Mali.
There is nothing there for a rational state to fight over.
But the Pentagon is on a holy crusade, stretching over the
face of the earth, for anything that might be in any way associated with what
it perceives in its dim lights to be Islamic fundamentalism and terror.
It very much resembles an obsessed, insane Captain Ahab
sailing the world's seas to kill the white whale.
It is egged by the domestic lobby of America's nasty little
sidekick, Israel, a country whose mad leaders speak of nothing but war and
assault and enemies and hatreds while they continue stealing the property of
others and suppress 4.5 million people into utter hopelessness.
We are heading into a long period of senseless, pointless,
and destructive conflicts inspired by the military-industrial complex and its
Ahab-like search for the white whale.
Traditionally, Canada, a rational people with progressive
views, would not even think of joining in such destructive stupidity.
But now this rational people are ruled by a 39%
"majority" government of extreme ideology whose major goal is to play
a role in international affairs as defined by the seething Captain Ahab.
We literally threw away billions of dollars and about a
hundred and fifty lives to achieve absolutely nothing in Afghanistan.
And we wasted millions more in killing civilians and
destroying property in Libya to help create a chaotic state whose leader the
United States hated.
In state after state the United States is busy killing
people, all innocent people by the standards of justice - in Yemen, in Bahrain,
in Pakistan, in Afghanistan, in Somalia, and in Syria (through its paid and
supplied proxies).
In Egypt, it encourages the government to impose an unjust
constitution just to secure the cooperation of that government.
In Iran, it threatens and blusters daily over nothing.
Its achievement in Iraq - besides a million killed,
thousands crippled, two million refugees, and an advanced society reduced to
poverty - is a nation effectively divided into pieces and endless internal
conflict.
Fortunately, Canada played no role in the filthy business.
Repeating what it achieved in Iraq is, of course, America's
aim in Syria.
Israel's mad leaders are gleeful for such murderous
assistance, but no person of democratic and humane principles can possibly
agree.
But we do not have a government today dedicated to such
principles, and the whole world knows it and treats us with shame in international
forums.
Happy New Year, Canada.
