I had a slight problem with the verbiage so in MY headline, I changed the title from that of the article I’m referring to, here:
Apr. 12, 2006. 01:00 AM
DAVID SACHS
[Toronto Star]Last week, Ontario Tourism Minister Jim Bradley said that Stephen Harper had sold out Canada. “I was astounded because I heard him say in the campaign he would stand up for Canada,” Bradley said.
“Instead we have the Prime Minister capitulating, running up the white flag.”
Apparently Bradley has no clear concept of the word “capitulation”, particularly when it comes to dealing with terrorists and terrorism. He should look to the liberal-left playbook for a clearer understanding. Or the French.
The issue which has so incensed the minister is the American plan to introduce new secure ID cards for all travel into the U.S. Cross-border travel, formerly requiring less rigorous documentation (such as driver’s licences) will become slightly more onerous.
Bradley’s stand on this issue, on the grounds that tourism will suffer, is like that of a petulant child who cannot understand that his personal needs are not the only ones that matter in this world.
Well put. And do you see it now? Liberals rarely use the word “capitulation” to describe their Dhimmitude and their propensity to defend or not fight terrorists. They reserve that to describe not fighting George Bush. “Capitulation” in the mind of the liberal is to bow to or agree to work with America’s very reasonable efforts to save itself from death and destruction by terrorists.
Sadly, it isn’t just Bradley who has flown overreacted this issue. Anti-Conservative bloggers and the discussion groups on on-line newspaper editions have flogged Harper on this as well. It’s important to expose the fallacies in these attacks. This means taking a grown-up attitude to world affairs; accepting that sovereignty implies responsibility, and that the needs of others may sometimes outweigh our own.
Read the rest of this editorial (a token view from the right) at the Toronto Star, and then read nothing else while you’re there or you’ll actually get dumber by the minute.
(Hat tip to my secret insider source!)
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