It appears that Canada, not Iran, may be the next, immediate victim of U.S. aggression (and not just because the Canadians have more oil):
The formal announcement Thursday that Canada will refuse any further participation in the controversial U.S. missile-defence shield was met with an immediate warning that Canada had given up its sovereignty.
Although Prime Minister Paul Martin said Canada would “insist” on maintaining control of its airspace, U.S. Ambassador Paul Cellucci warned that Washington would not be constrained.
“We will deploy. We will defend North America,” he said.
“We simply cannot understand why Canada would in effect give up its sovereignty – its seat at the table – to decide what to do about a missile that might be coming towards Canada.”
"Arrogance," of course, barely begins to describe the American response. Imagine, for a moment, that some other high-minded and enlightened nation, committed to the "defense of North America," informed the United States that it would not be "constrained" with respect to its use of U.S. airspace. The howling mad dogs in the media and the government and the blogosphere would explode with anger and threats. But this simple little application of the Golden Rule--familiar even to children of 8 or 9--will, one may safely predict, be missed by the morally illiterate shapers of public opinion, not just the Bill O'Reilly's and Glen Reynolds's, but also the Wolf Blitzer's and Thomas Friedman's and so on, who will sternly scold the Canadians for their intransigence, for their failure to bow before their stark raving lunatic master.
Perhaps, if we are lucky, the Canadian refusal to participate in the missile defense charade will scuttle the enterprise more quickly than the inability of the system to actually work. And if we aren't lucky....
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