Who am I kidding? Carolyn Parrish has miraculously missed a lot of memos written by “idiots”, and I’m sure she’ll miss this one written by “idiots” at an “idiots” conference which just concluded.
Liberals will never cite this conference of “idiots” and its “idiotic” conclusions in their incessant blather about the horrors of joining the U.S. in their “idiotic” Ballistic Missile Defence plan, just as they never cite the thousands of scientists who have spoken out and written articles against the Kyoto Accord and its premises.
Personally, I can’t comprehend why, after all this time, the BMD question is still on the table as a question. Liberals drag out national security issues for eons, but rush emergency gay ‘marriage’ legislation into Parliament. Tells us a lot about their priorities, doesn’t it?
I’d hate for the liberals to be in charge of making a decision while a rogue missile is headed our way. Actually, I really dislike them being in charge of anything at all whatsoever.
HARRIMAN, N.Y. (CP) – It’s time for Canada to stop dithering and join the U.S. missile defence plan so it can move on to issues like co-ordinating maritime defence and trans-border emergencies, a major conference on Canada-U.S. relations concluded Sunday.
A majority of government officials, academics, diplomats and others from both sides of the border said the missile project has been wrongly linked to “science fiction scenarios” of weapons in space and that there would be ample opportunity for Canada to get out if the U.S. ever moves in that direction.
“A positive Canadian decision would get the issue off the table and end the debate which has unfortunately obscured more than it has enlightened,” said an initial draft report from the American Assembly at Columbia University.
“Even though Canada does not share the U.S. assessments of external threats to the same degree, it has no alternative but to adjust to U.S. perceptions of what menaces North America,” said the draft, which will see a number of revisions.
The assembly’s report wasn’t unanimous. A handful of high-profile Canadians, including former prime minister Joe Clark, expressed reservations about the missile defence plan at the sessions.
But a wide spectrum endorsed it after debate sessions during the four-day gathering, where there were few top-level U.S. officials and more Canadians than Americans.
[…] The assembly rejected the notion that values are widely diverging between the U.S. and Canada, a notion reinforced with the re-election of Bush and an outcry from people in liberal Democratic states who pronounced their similarities with Canadians.
“There are more differences within the two countries than between them,” said the assembly, but the idea of a values chasm is hurting relations and making it harder to resolve bilateral disputes.
“We are witnessing something new in the relationship – the emergence on the American right of a troubling anti-Canadianism, albeit confined to strident voices in the media,” said the draft report.
“Nonetheless, this misguided impulse pales beside the disturbing and persistent currents of anti-Americanism in Canada,” it said. […]
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