In an embarrassing display of me-too-ism Canada has jumped into the war of words over Iran's imaginary terror exploits in the Americas.
Aside from the extremely dubious case of the bi-polar American used car salesman of Iranian descent, who tried to hire a DEA agent to blow up the Saudi ambassador, evidence of Iranian terror activities anywhere in the Americas is thin indeed.
As The Globe and Mail notes in today's edition, "the Harper Government has been one of the world's most aggressive critics of Iran." Ironically, while the law and order types in Ottawa are wringing their hands over the possibility of Iranian terror in the Americas, they had no qualms about signing free trade agreements with two of the most violent and corrupt regimes in all the Americas in the past year, those of Honduras and Colombia.
The fretting over Iran is in response to Obama having signed the Countering Iran in the Western Hemisphere Act last week. Could they not at least have come up with a title that lends itself to fashioning a catchy acronym? How about the Stop Hezbollah and Iran Terror Act?
A headline proclaiming "Senate unanimously endorses SHIT act" would at least get your attention.
Belen Fernandez does a great job debunking the entire "Iranian terror in the Americas" hysteria. It's exactly that, and it's based on little more than wishful thinking. The entire US military industrial colossus would look more than a little silly without enemies.
If Iran wasn't the enemy du jour, they'd have to invent a new one.
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