Here's where we are on this. Americans know that the USA is the major player in
trying to bomb Libya into democracy. But Obama has said we would be in charge
for only a couple of days. After a prolonged meeting (shouting match?) with
NATO nations, it turns out that, yes, NATO will take over, but, the "leadership"
will be a CANADIAN general.
Canadians aren't really foreigners, they are neighbors. My own maternal
grandfather was a French Canadian from Ontario. Canadians got our embassy staff
out of Iran in 1979, remember. They got bloodied at a beach in Normandy in
1944. We don't have and don't need better allies.
Nobody in America is asking, but, ah, "What do the Canadians think of being
handed this hot potato?"
The Globe & Mail is a major newspaper out of Toronto. It is printed in six
different Canadian cities, making it something of Canada's national daily
newspaper. Margaret Wente wrote an opinion piece about Libya on Saturday. The
link is below. I erupted with ugly laughter while reading it, because it is so
accurate. And because I am not an intellectual liberal. Neither am I a
neo-conservative. Though I AM INDEED a veteran of an undeclared war that the
U.S. promised not to win.
Feel free to share this link.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/opinion/blame-r2p-the-intellectuals-go-to-war/article1957296/
trying to bomb Libya into democracy. But Obama has said we would be in charge
for only a couple of days. After a prolonged meeting (shouting match?) with
NATO nations, it turns out that, yes, NATO will take over, but, the "leadership"
will be a CANADIAN general.
Canadians aren't really foreigners, they are neighbors. My own maternal
grandfather was a French Canadian from Ontario. Canadians got our embassy staff
out of Iran in 1979, remember. They got bloodied at a beach in Normandy in
1944. We don't have and don't need better allies.
Nobody in America is asking, but, ah, "What do the Canadians think of being
handed this hot potato?"
The Globe & Mail is a major newspaper out of Toronto. It is printed in six
different Canadian cities, making it something of Canada's national daily
newspaper. Margaret Wente wrote an opinion piece about Libya on Saturday. The
link is below. I erupted with ugly laughter while reading it, because it is so
accurate. And because I am not an intellectual liberal. Neither am I a
neo-conservative. Though I AM INDEED a veteran of an undeclared war that the
U.S. promised not to win.
Feel free to share this link.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/opinion/blame-r2p-the-intellectuals-go-to-war/article1957296/
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