David Warren writes about Canada's shame. I don't frequently experience shame but it has been my predominant feeling since the War on Iraq began. Shame will transform into outrage and outrage will turn into action and results. Canada can never be allowed to make this scale of mistake again. Chretien must not just be renounced, he must be repudiated, made an exile in Canadian history. The tide has turned and the first battle against vile blind anti-Americanism will be fought in the Great White North.
davidwarrenonline.com
If any American, or Briton, or Australian, or free man or woman, should happen to be reading this, I want you to know that I am not speaking only for myself. I am speaking on behalf, quite literally, of millions of Canadians, who are every bit as disgusted as you are with our country. You have the same kind of people -- you will know perfectly well -- within your own countries. The difference is, in Canada they are in charge.
In this particular moment of truth, and for all time, America had a Bush, Britain had a Blair, Australia had a Howard -- each one of them willing to stand, and face the music; each one a politician, but also a man. In this same moment of truth, and in the histories forever, Canada had the scuttling Chrétien.
We elected him, and his Party. The shame is ours to redeem. |
