Deja Vu

And I thought that Harper and co. were trying to distance themselves from Bush.

Of all the reasons for Afghanistan this is the most convoluted:

"Events in Bali, Madrid and London have all showed how vulnerable we are to terrorism," he said. "Must we wait for terrorists to appear in Vancouver, Montreal or here in Ottawa before we recognize the very real threat that they present to our security?"

The logistics of Taliban warriors attacking Ottawa would be interesting to say the least. We are not even fighting the Al-Qaeda anymore but rather Taliban remants blocking our oil pipeline who happen to be slightly right of the ruling theocrats in Afghanistan.

Anyway I degress:


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I so wish I was on that parliament debate floor so there would be at least one antiwar voice. The NDP sounded hella weak- quibbling over whether our troops are under American command or NATO. NATO is an American dominated military alliance- they seem to have forgotten when they did not support NATO back in the day. Back than NATO had a purpose and now it desperatly searches for meaning in a world of no Warsaw Pact, Soviet submarines, or big scary Russian tanks. Tribesmen with rusting AK-47s simply dont inspire the same sort of fear.

Anyway I got to study for my Canadian history exam tommorrow. Interesting history it is: a century of the free trade and pro American Liberals versus the protectionist anti American Conservatives.... well at least until Mulroney stirred the bucket a tad - he was good at that for better or worse.