I don't really have the time or interest to get into protracted political debates, but after supporting Stephen Harper and the Conservatives in the recent election, I think that I have to voice what tremendous disappointment I have with much of his foreign policy. One thing that the Liberals did right was to show at least a degree of neutrality in Middle Eastern politics. This was probably partly owing to the flood of immigrants that they have allowed in from Muslim countries like Pakistan, Somalia and Iran whose voices may have balanced their fat cat donors and constituents like the Asper family, running the National Post like a private propaganda arm of the Israeli government. Now that we have various growing ethnic ghettos in Canada that risk breeding Muslim extremism (such as Sikh extremists that carried out the Air India bombing, or Tamil extremists who help fund the separatist terrorism in Sri Lanka), we fan the flames of these Muslims not by doing what's right, but doing what's wrong -- unfairly favouring Israel in Middle Eastern politics. Not favouring Israel over terrorists in the sort of black/white Jews vs crazy Muslims sense that seems to be Bush and Harper's mindset, but rather favouring Israel's policy of overwhelming and largely inhuman and indiscriminate brute force to prevail over what peace and moderation there might be in its absence. Israel thinks it doesn't need peace or moderation because they have all the military and economic power in the region. By the way, who are the terrorists and who has all the upper moral ground when we have one side systematically blowing up airports, roads, bridges, blockading ports, and killing many civilians -- against another side that is a small uncontrollable group mindlessly firing some crappy little rockets that statistically seem to have a one in a hundred chance of doing any significant damage?
Mr. Harper, I am gravely disappointed with you. You are almost becoming a bigger sell-out of Canadian interests than the Liberals were -- in the case of foreign policy, much worse. You are putting Canada on the side of war-mongers who favour escalation of violence, entrenchment of hatred and extremism, and polarization of society. |
