Whether it’s the right-wing pro-American government of John Howard or it’s anyone else in the world, any criticism directed at Canada for admitting we made a mistake in throwing our young men and women into harms way in the cause of legitimizing American propaganda should be quietly ignored.
Canada shouldn’t have troops in Afghanistan and a withdrawal should have been begun months ago.
How legitimate can this action in Afghanistan be when rationally dissected?
Whether they’re from Italy, Ireland, Russia China or Japan, terrorists and gangsters have killed thousands while committing their crimes. The streets of Chicago, Montreal, Vancouver, New York, all major cities in North America have been battlegrounds for criminals and criminal gangs since the end of the First World War, and has any nation decided it appropriate to “police” these criminals countries of origin?
And yet now because the Taliban were complicit in supporting the criminal conspiracy of Al Queada who attacked the U.S. Spain, Britain and a number of other nations, the Afghan people are dying. If the United States wants to find Osama bin Laden and round up the perpetrators behind 9/11 then fine, but where is the line drawn between going after the guilty and punishing the whole nation?
The United States has used and supported terrorists (gangsters) both directly by training terrorists and by funding and militarily supporting oppressive regimes across a wide spectrum of nations. Dictatorships having found a sympathetic ear in American business circles, legitimizing murder and mayhem from Nicaragua and Panama to East Timor Columbia and Indonesia and Malaysia.
That’s an observation not a judgment by the way.
Israel has used both with permission and without permission, Canadian passports as subterfuge in prosecuting their war on the “enemies of Israel”, an action if committed by many different nations would be justly called spying and rank right up there with the heinous judgments leveled against the Soviets.
Is it the cause of “justice” that’s behind the current action in Afghanistan or is it a manipulation by American oil cartels to attempt to secure a pipeline right of way that the Soviets failed in doing a number of years ago?
If the hunger for retribution and desire to punish those responsible for September 11/2001 is behind the militarism taking place in Afghanistan, why aren’t there actions being taken against Saudi Arabia, Yemen or a number of other nations that have also participated in over-looking Al Qeada?
Because it’s not about bringing democracy to Afghanistan, and not about hunting down the bad guys from 9/11, it’s all about American corporate warfare to retain control over the supply and distribution of fossil fuels.
And if any Canadian thinks that the American corporate community cares whether Canada approves or disapproves of its policies and actions, we have only to remember our wonderful North American Free Trade Agreement to garner some insight into how prepared the United States is to honor its “agreements”.
What the American engine of commerce loves to see though is a mindless ape like Stephen Harper capitulating to every American injustice and sacrificing Canadian men and women in supporting that engine. When the time comes when it’s Canada’s turn to reap the rewards of being the good little neighbour, having embraced the warmongering of the American administration and having aligned ourselves with the U.S. military in murdering innocent Afghanis and Iraqis you can bet any decision to reward Canada will be subject to the same formula and dynamics found acceptable or unacceptable in our wonderful NAFTA “agreement”.
Canada should be out of Afghanistan and never should have become involved there in the first place.
We have FBI and CIA policing inside Canada now, we have patrol boats along our Great Lakes mutual border that have mounted machine guns, we have watched the great Stephen Harper screw Canadians out of a billion dollars in the name of cow-towing to American industry….
Why don’t we just send a delegation to Washington and surrender now?
All the rabid pro-American fanatics here at Canadian Content would welcome taking down the Canadian flag and raising Old Glory over their homesteads I’m sure.
