A vapid feeling to Stéphane Dion’s fence-sitting

[Locutus]

The Liberal government shares the same convictions as its Conservative predecessor in the realm of foreign policy, but it assesses the consequences of those convictions differently, said Stéphane Dion, the foreign affairs minister, in a major speech this week.

The new Trudeau doctrine is a policy that might almost be termed “continuity with change.” At least it might, were it not for the unfortunate consequence of the slogan’s use by Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull.

He was ridiculed after it emerged it been coined by the writers of political satire, Veep. They said they came up with a tag for the campaign bus of Julia Louis-Dreyfus’s character, Selena Meyer, that was “hollow and oxymoronic, that said absolutely nothing but seemed to have depth and meaning.”

There is a similarly vapid feeling to Dion’s speech at the University of Ottawa Tuesday. He said the guiding principle of his mandate would be something he called “responsible conviction.”


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John Ivison: A vapid feeling to Stéphane Dion’s fence-sitting | National Post

 

[taxslave]

Well responsible conviction is a step up from his normal irresponsible conviction.

 

[davesmom]

"These are fine words. But it’s not clear what they will mean in practice. Already we are starting to see it challenged by the realities of a complicated world"


That's it in a nutshell! The realities of a complicated world go right over the heads of this Liberal government.
This is not a world where everyone is good and kind and can be placated with a smile, a handshake and a pat on the back.
The Liberals are a bunch of idealists who like to ignore the aggressiveness of the bad guys, the greed and the evil that pervades so many countries. They seem to think they can woo the world into peace with 'sunny ways' and political correct speeches.
Not only is it not going to happen, it will be our downfall if they don't wake up to reality.

 

[tay]

Canada's biggest customer for lethal military hardware also happens to be the biggest state sponsor of terrorism in the Middle East with a seemingly unquenchable appetite for slaughtering civilians.

Former DND strategic analyst, Thomas Juneau, who now lectures on international affairs at Ottawa U, sums it up this way:

"We pretend that we're boy scouts, but a lot of what we do is not different from what other countries do. If that sounds like a definition of hypocrisy, well, there you are."

In fact, says Juneau, "you'd be hard-pressed to find any significant Canadian statements about the war in Yemen.

Canada doesn't want to be seen to be criticizing an ally and good customer, and at the same time doesn't want to be seen as closely associated with it. The middle ground, then, is silence."

Trudeau's sock puppet foreign minister, Steffie Dion, says he's keeping an eye on those Saudis and what they do with $15-billion worth of Canadian armoured death wagons. Apparently that's being done from our embassy in Riyadh - out of sight, out of mind.

There's a rich history of what the Saudis have done with armoured fighting vehicles we already sold them but, to Steffie, let bygones be bygones.

Given that Ottawa has outsourced both Canada's foreign and military policy to Washington the inevitable hypocrisy is, well, inevitable.

If America was to brand Iran a "state sponsor of terrorism" we'd be barking mad and slapping on sanctions with a near religious fervor. When a real state sponsor of terrorism, the biggest state sponsor of terrorism, comes along, we weigh their purse and look the other way.

Let's take a look at modern terrorism. The US embassy bombings - a Sunni operation. The attack on the USS Cole - Sunni. The original World Trade Center bombing - Sunni. The 9/11 attacks - Sunni. The terrorist attacks on Madrid, London and Paris - Sunni. al Qaeda - Sunni. ISIS - Sunni. al Nusra - Sunni. Where is Shiite Iran in all of this? Nowhere, that's where.

Saudi Arabia introduced the same, violent strain of Sunni Islam practised by all the Islamist terrorists.

Saudi Arabia suppresses human rights without a second thought. It revels in beheading and crucifying people in the public for such crimes as sorcery. It foments this malignant form of violent Islamism by funding Madrassas, religious schools, throughout the Sunni Arab world.

The Saudis are evil incarnate and our government stands deaf, blind and mute.

The Canadian division of the US defence contractor, General Dynamics, pockets a $15-billion score and our government, the Trudeau government, turns its back as it pisses on the honour of our country.

Tom Juneau is right. It's the definition of hypocrisy.

Let's not kid ourselves, Canada is in the war business: Neil Macdonald - Politics - CBC News

 

[Cliffy]

Trudeau's sock puppet foreign minister, Steffie Dion, says he's keeping an eye on those Saudis and what they do with $15-billion worth of Canadian armoured death wagons. Apparently that's being done from our embassy in Riyadh - out of sight, out of mind.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/saudi-arabia-arms-deal-canada-macdonald-1.3810952

He makes one mistake here: Trudeau is the sock puppet of the Liberal old boys club of which Dion is one of the controlling members.

 

[Cannuck]

He makes one mistake here: Trudeau is the sock puppet of the Liberal old boys club of which Dion is one of the controlling members.
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Nobody's interested in your communist nonsense

 

[Danbones]

I thought harper was the stalinist accountant
certainly he beat the russians to the war in the middle east
thats decisive I suppose