Former Canadian pols Lloyd Axworthy and Allan Rock had a goodly display of Boo-ya on view in the Globe and Mail yesterday. According to them, Canada can be a world leader in the battle against the Coronavirus, while simultaneously leading the charge against Syria's latest humanitarian crisis in Idlib! That's a rather full plate for such a humble nation.
But, why not? We're all acquainted with Coronavirus. After a solid month of hysterical headlines, Canada finally scored her first death - an 89 year-old dude in a nursing home who'd been loitering around death's door for months anyway.
What a relief!
And, as Canadians, we're all proud of our record of helping Syrians, aren't we? Lloyd and Al figure we should take in another 40,000 at a minimum.
What I don't quite get is their assertion that it's all Syrians clamouring to be rescued from Idlib province. There's a reason why Idlib's population more than doubled over the course of the Syrian "civil war." Every time the Syrian government had some rebel outfit hopelessly cornered, they were given a choice; surrender your weapons and renounce terror, or move to Idlib. Most of them took a chance on Idlib.
They took that chance because, according to the Sochi Agreement of 2018, their patron Erdogan would be responsible for their eventual de-militarization, and they had reason to believe that was going to be a very soft touch indeed.
According to stats compiled by the anti-Assad Observatory for Human Rights, almost half the casualties suffered by anti-government forces from 2011 to 2019 were foreigners, ie non-Syrians. These were typically linked to various al Qaeda affiliates in the country. Remember them?
Yup, the very terrorists we had to fight to the death after 9/11. Now we gotta rescue them from Assad!
Why?
Because somewhere along the line they became our allies, a fact glossed over by Lloyd and Al.
It's a crazy world!
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