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Yes, there is something to the notion of Justin Trudeau’s
experience in Canada having some application to Jeremy Corbyn’s situation in
Britain.
Corbyn doesn't have Trudeau's good looks or family heritage,
but they do share one very important quality.
They are both politicians who speak remarkably honestly.
And the people do come to understand that when they've heard
from someone enough times.
Insincerity is the hallmark of most run-of-the-mill and
smarmy politicians such as David Cameron.
And the people come to understand that, too, just as
Canadians understood it about Stephen Harper.
It's just that they often, or usually, do not have an
authentic choice in elections.
Give them a meaningful choice, and the democratic results
can be gratifying.
Jeremy Corbyn has before him this possibility, and the hack
political establishment knows and fears it.
That's why they came crawling out of the woodwork, day after
day, name after name, at the mere possibility of his nomination as leader.
Imagine the second greatest liar living on the planet, Tony
Blair, advising people against an honest man?
And the press gave him generous coverage, too, while he was
doing it.
Pretty close to ridiculous.
Now, when we enter the subject of ISIS and other terrorists
in Syria, we enter the world of complete dishonesty.
American flunkies like Cameron and Harper can do nothing
about ISIS, except making token gestures. They are neither powerful enough nor
can they take acts against what is American policy.
ISIS, al Nusra, and other gangs of murderers are doing America’s
bidding - Israel, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar serving as America’s chief
administrative assistants in the murderous work.
David Cameron's implicit support for the terrorists in Syria,
while blubbering on about fighting them, may be characterized as David's doing
Rupert Murdoch's bidding.
Rupert is an intense supporter of Israel's interests, and
the effort to destroy a stable Syria largely reflects Israel’s interests, just
as the destruction of Iraq did. The cries of the birth of a new Middle East, as
Condoleezza Rice once so graciously described subsidized murder and mayhem on a
colossal scale.
Only this time, the key players and their associates do not
want to take the credit and consequences and lingering sense of blameworthiness
and shame involved in another illegal invasion, so they are secretly supporting
a big gang of cutthroats - recruiting, training, supplying, and arming them -
all while play-acting regret in public about the horrors they inflict. Who
knows, such cynical, black-hearted policy may even have included plans to
attack their own bloody servants in terror once the job of ruining Syria was
done?
It is only because of the apparent contradictions arising
from all the stoked-up press propaganda about ISIS - meant to play up their
horrible acts as theater for the folks back home, intensifying Islamophobia and
support for the existing, highly selective war on terror - that David Cameron feels
moved to blubber on about (token) bombing.
But, of course, he has no intention of opposing American
policy or Rupert Murdoch’s dictums in such matters. And that would considerably
reduce the charm of country-house weekends with Rebekah Brooks.
Cameron wants to have his cake and eat it too, as they say. Talk
about the banality of evil – David Cameron surely is one of our chief living
examples, much the same as Canada’s now-departed Stephen Harper.
But Russia's genuine intervention in Syria is changing all
of that by revealing the true state of affairs, how a determined attack can
decimate these bloody thugs in fairly short order, unlike America's
long-running pretend-attacks and actual attacks on Syrian infrastructure meant
to support ISIS against Syria.
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Response to a reader
saying Trudeau’s victory was all in his name:
No, you are wrong. He fought a tough campaign, going from a
point of being third in polls to victory.
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Response to another
reader calling Corbyn “a dead man walking”:
Yours are words which carry the pungent, seamy odor of Tony
Blair with them.
