POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN TORONTO'S GLOBE AND MAIL
Amazing, our robot-ideologue gets something for once.
We have no interests in Mali and no interest in Mali.
But those facts didn't stop Harper's most brainless minister
from floating the idea that we should get involved in America's next foreign adventure
in mass murder.
I guess Harper received enough feedback to convince him that
the public could not stomach his Minister of Rescue Helicopters for Fishing
Trips' brainless proposal.
Concern over Mali, apart from normal humanitarian concerns,
is solely the territory of America's giant blundering military-intelligence
establishment.
But that is the case in so many other matters too, and was
the case in Afghanistan, Somalia, Yemen, and Libya.
We did waste a good many lives and a great deal of treasure
in some of those places just in order to gain "creds" with America's
military Frankenstein.
And this is, after call, a government whose ministers'
surest route to a big appointment is to suddenly blurt something out, almost
like a devotee at a Pentecostal Church's speaking in tongues while writhing on
the carpet, about fighting for another place in which Canadians in general have
no interest, Israel.
That certainly was the case for Peter Kent and is an ongoing
obsession for John Baird, aka the junk yard dog of vicious attacks and gushes
of seemingly pointless enthusiasms.
I suppose we should be grateful for small things: we will
not be winging our way over to Mali, dribbling away billions of dollars we
don't have, just to interfere in matters about which we have zero
understanding.
[Note: Shortly later,
Canada offered limited use of a C-17 transport plane to France, whose military
had agreed to do America's dirty work in Mali. Fittingly, given the clownish
nature of our Minister of Defense, after
some fanfare in sending it off, the plane had a problem and was stuck on the
runway for some time.]
