How Not to Decide Canada Foreign Policy
Thursday, May 11, 2006
I came across an excellent article this morning that compares Stephen Harper's foreign policy mandate with that of the man in charge of our southern neighbours.
The author does a pretty fair job of saying what most Canadians won't because we're all too goddamn nice, even though we're mostly ashamed of voting the Conservatives into power just to spite a corrupt Liberal administration: That Harper is a dick.
Here's a sample:
The author does a pretty fair job of saying what most Canadians won't because we're all too goddamn nice, even though we're mostly ashamed of voting the Conservatives into power just to spite a corrupt Liberal administration: That Harper is a dick.
Here's a sample:
Maybe Canada should not be tying itself ever closer to an increasingly isolated and undisciplined (and somewhat inept -- when was the last time the U.S. won a war without help?) military superpower that is being run by a renegade government that has little respect for the interests of the world as a whole or for any international treaties (bilateral or multilateral) and is headed by a president who does not claim a mandate derived from the citizens of the United States, but one bestowed by God.Full article here.
Come to think of it, maybe that's also what gives Harper (a fundamentalist Christian) the right to govern as if he controls a majority in the House of Commons. Perhaps he believes (like George Bush) that the Almighty put him into office and so any decision he makes -- democratic or non-democratic -- is the right one.
posted by raistlinsghost at 5/11/2006 04:23:00 AM
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