Simon Tisdall, foreign affairs expert at The Guardian for over forty years, has a scary headline for you today; "The West ignores the growth of Islamic insurgents in Africa at its peril."
The article contains a single passing reference to Libya; "Sudan and Chad, both negatively affected by the Libyan war, are particularly vulnerable."
Huh? There's a war in Libya? I thought Libya was a thriving democracy after we got rid of their evil dictator for them... what went wrong?
Here's a clue; Gaddafi warned Blair his ouster would 'open door' to jihadis.
Nine years later, it's safe to say Gaddafi was right and we were wrong. Not only did we destroy the most prosperous society in all of Africa, we're now scratching our heads wondering what to do about the jihadist hordes free-ranging across Africa from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea.
And lest you think this disgraceful state of affairs has nothing to do with Canada, remember that almost a thousand brave men and women in Canadian Forces uniforms got medals for their contribution to this fiasco.
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Saturday, February 29, 2020
Sunday, July 8, 2018
Good news Canada! We can work with...
...John Bolton!
Yup, Trump might be a lost cause, but John Bolton is a stand-up guy Canada can work with! That's according to Michael Byers in yesterday's Globe and Mail.
And why not? He's smart, organized, tenacious, ambitious, and has been relentlessly advocating for war on Iran ever since the Mullahs threw over the Shah's liberal democracy back in '79.
That's our kinda guy!
Elsewhere in the countdown to Trumpageddon, I see where The Guardian's bed-wetter-at-large Simon Tisdall has figured out that Trump is in Putin's pocket, and is bent on "undermining the post-Salisbury western consensus."
What?
That's a thing?... there's a post-Salisbury consensus?
I think the general consensus outside the big-media echo-chamber is that the entire Skripal charade was stage managed by British spook agencies in a lame attempt to throw shade on Putin's party at the World Cup, but whatever. As for the imminent demise of NATO, Uncle Sam's me-too club, that can't come soon enough for anyone pining for a more peaceful world.
And look on the bright side; it'll get those allies off the hook from buying all that over-priced American military hardware that's constantly being foisted on them in the name of "interoperability."
Like the F-35 that so many of the me-too imbeciles have signed up for.
Hard to see a downside. I guess the sparkly new $1.5 billion NATO HQ will be sitting vacant, but maybe Brussels can convert it to housing for some of those migrants who have been fleeing the NATO success stories in Libya and Afghanistan in their millions.
Finally, it looks like Trump's plan to make coal great again isn't going that great. Apparently there's a coal-fired generating plant closing every fifteen days on average since Putin put Trump in the Oval Office.
This too is a good thing!
Just goes to show you should judge politicians by their results, not by their rhetoric.
Yup, Trump might be a lost cause, but John Bolton is a stand-up guy Canada can work with! That's according to Michael Byers in yesterday's Globe and Mail.
And why not? He's smart, organized, tenacious, ambitious, and has been relentlessly advocating for war on Iran ever since the Mullahs threw over the Shah's liberal democracy back in '79.
That's our kinda guy!
Elsewhere in the countdown to Trumpageddon, I see where The Guardian's bed-wetter-at-large Simon Tisdall has figured out that Trump is in Putin's pocket, and is bent on "undermining the post-Salisbury western consensus."
What?
That's a thing?... there's a post-Salisbury consensus?
I think the general consensus outside the big-media echo-chamber is that the entire Skripal charade was stage managed by British spook agencies in a lame attempt to throw shade on Putin's party at the World Cup, but whatever. As for the imminent demise of NATO, Uncle Sam's me-too club, that can't come soon enough for anyone pining for a more peaceful world.
And look on the bright side; it'll get those allies off the hook from buying all that over-priced American military hardware that's constantly being foisted on them in the name of "interoperability."
Like the F-35 that so many of the me-too imbeciles have signed up for.
Hard to see a downside. I guess the sparkly new $1.5 billion NATO HQ will be sitting vacant, but maybe Brussels can convert it to housing for some of those migrants who have been fleeing the NATO success stories in Libya and Afghanistan in their millions.
Finally, it looks like Trump's plan to make coal great again isn't going that great. Apparently there's a coal-fired generating plant closing every fifteen days on average since Putin put Trump in the Oval Office.
This too is a good thing!
Just goes to show you should judge politicians by their results, not by their rhetoric.
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