It was sad to see former FM Lloyd Axworthy waxing wise in a Globe and Mail opinion piece last week about how Canada's participation (widely hailed as "leadership" in this country, although it was nothing of the sort) in the destruction of Libya proves the R2P concept was indeed a great idea.
Lloyd was primarily responding to Louise Arbour, a fellow Canadian jurist who's career has by far eclipsed his own. Ms. Arbour recently went on the record as having grave misgivings about the "Responsibility to Protect" doctrine.
That's the odious bit of tomfoolery that makes it "right" for big strong countries to invade weaker ones on the pretext of "protecting" people in that weaker country who are under possible threat by a leader we don't like.
According to Axworthy, we were right to bomb Ghadaffi into the dust-bin of history because he was about to unleash a holocaust on his critics.
Of course he was. Ghadaffi unleashed blood-curdling threats against his critics every time he stood up to make a speech. Yet, in forty years at the helm, his victims number in the thousands, not the hundreds of thousands or millions that can be reasonably attributed to various members of the Nations of Virtue club that Axworthy speaks for.
In the meantime, the Libyan people enjoyed the highest standard of living in all Africa.
What are they enjoying now that we've "saved" them from their leader?
Showing posts with label Louise Arbour. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Louise Arbour. Show all posts
Monday, April 20, 2015
Wednesday, April 8, 2015
Arbour, Duffy, Harper, that Ukrainian piano player, and the reset of Canadian foreign policy
Louise Arbour has gone rogue. Once the darling of the "robust interventionist" crowd, ie R2P, she's definitely been dialling it down recently, to the point where she's gone on record as saying R2P has been a disaster.
The Duffster's trial for financial hanky-panky got underway yesterday. Good old Puffy Duffy was a mainstay of mainstream news in Canada all the back to the 1970's. After decades of sucking up to power he finally realized his dream five or six years ago with an appointment to the Senate.
Alas, when a few media types latched onto his expense claims, Big Steve was quick to throw him overboard. Bear in mind that this was well before those same media types had the crack-smokin' mayor of Toronto to kick around.
Puffy Duffy's padded expense accounts must have seemed like a big score at the time.
We're living a new reality today. Ford be gone but Duffy just getting started. Revenge of the fat fucks.
It's gonna get ugly!
Meanwhile, Big Steve be fightin' evil-doers over there in Syria. Technically speaking, bombing a sovereign state other than your own is viewed as a "war crime." Today the Canadian Air Force of Virtue bombed Syria for the first time, because....
Because?
Because Big Steve saw a few votes in being tough on terror?
Who knows?
While all that is going on, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra has metaphorically beshat its own nest by wading into political debates that should be totally beyond its purview. Seems the esteemed Ukrainian pianist Valentina Lisitsa is persona non grata at Roy Thompson Hall because she's one of those Uke ingrates who
fails to appreciate the manifold blessings of the Nuland-Pyatt putsch that removed a democratically elected government in her country last year.
The official Canadian response to that particular overthrow of a democratically elected government has been an embarrassment to anyone who still puts the slightest stock in the hyperbole of democracy, free speech, etc.
Nobody cheered this anti-democratic over-throw of a democratically elected government louder than the closet fascists at the Ukrainian Canadian Congress. Because the Ukrainian Canadian vote could be a king-maker in the up-coming election, the Harper Gang has been pandering to those folks in the most unseemly manner for years now.
That's why a piano player made the front page this week.
That's where Canada is at today. We celebrate the overthrow of democratic governments. We blacklist artists who protest. We commit war crimes against states that have never raised their hands against us.
There's an election coming up. Maybe we should start paying attention.
Maybe we should make plans to vote.
It's not too late yet.
The Duffster's trial for financial hanky-panky got underway yesterday. Good old Puffy Duffy was a mainstay of mainstream news in Canada all the back to the 1970's. After decades of sucking up to power he finally realized his dream five or six years ago with an appointment to the Senate.
Alas, when a few media types latched onto his expense claims, Big Steve was quick to throw him overboard. Bear in mind that this was well before those same media types had the crack-smokin' mayor of Toronto to kick around.
Puffy Duffy's padded expense accounts must have seemed like a big score at the time.
We're living a new reality today. Ford be gone but Duffy just getting started. Revenge of the fat fucks.
It's gonna get ugly!
Meanwhile, Big Steve be fightin' evil-doers over there in Syria. Technically speaking, bombing a sovereign state other than your own is viewed as a "war crime." Today the Canadian Air Force of Virtue bombed Syria for the first time, because....
Because?
Because Big Steve saw a few votes in being tough on terror?
Who knows?
While all that is going on, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra has metaphorically beshat its own nest by wading into political debates that should be totally beyond its purview. Seems the esteemed Ukrainian pianist Valentina Lisitsa is persona non grata at Roy Thompson Hall because she's one of those Uke ingrates who
fails to appreciate the manifold blessings of the Nuland-Pyatt putsch that removed a democratically elected government in her country last year.
The official Canadian response to that particular overthrow of a democratically elected government has been an embarrassment to anyone who still puts the slightest stock in the hyperbole of democracy, free speech, etc.
Nobody cheered this anti-democratic over-throw of a democratically elected government louder than the closet fascists at the Ukrainian Canadian Congress. Because the Ukrainian Canadian vote could be a king-maker in the up-coming election, the Harper Gang has been pandering to those folks in the most unseemly manner for years now.
That's why a piano player made the front page this week.
That's where Canada is at today. We celebrate the overthrow of democratic governments. We blacklist artists who protest. We commit war crimes against states that have never raised their hands against us.
There's an election coming up. Maybe we should start paying attention.
Maybe we should make plans to vote.
It's not too late yet.
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