I thought there could be no one dumb or blind enough to qualify for nomination anymore. As expressed in The Economist (http://www.economist.com/opinion/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=916867)
"Along with the Taliban and al-Qaeda armies in Afghanistan, the armchair critics in the West have been routed. American troops have not suffered the humiliation meted out to the Soviet Union in the 1980s. Bombing did not prove pointless or reckless. There has been no humanitarian disaster. Other Islamic countries, notably Pakistan, the Gulf states and Egypt, have not erupted in popular fury against the West. Americans have not lashed out, and nor have they been arrogant or triumphalist. Instead they have been sober, well-organised, well-supported, determined and remarkably successful."
But along comes Professor John McMurtry, Guelph University, Ontario, Canada.
From the Toronto Globe, 12/24/01:
globeandmail.ca
"John McMurtry, a professor of philosophy at Guelph University, recently delivered an address at the University of Toronto in which he claimed that the American and coalition response to the attacks was simply "the latest expression of a deeper and wider terrorist campaign of an emergent totalitarian pattern of instituting world corporate rule."
Comparing Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda to President George W. Bush and the American government, he said "there is little difference in moral substance between these atavistic gangs. Both are mass killers."
And he suggested that "the evidence confirming U.S. and allied security awareness of, and possible complicity in, the 9/11 attack is considerable.""
P.S.- he also believes capitalism is a social pathology
uoguelph.ca
and that the Free Trade Area of the Americas is part of the global corporate coup d'etat.
onlineopinion.com.au
"The "Free Trade Area of the Americas" (FTAA) is the latest major campaign for the occupation of the planet by the global corporate system. Like its predecessors, it will not respond to resistance, or move beyond dictation of more of the same. This is because its program is structured to be life-blind. Only the rights of non-living corporations are recognised."
All the more reason to guard our northern border more carefully. |
