Thank ₤µ€λ!

Metro put in 33 hours of overtime this week & so is one tired puppy. So just a brief thank-you to the millions of Canadians who told Paul Martin to avoid the US Missile 'Fence.

On the radio following the day of the decision, a US general explained that people in the US were "bewildered" about the general lack of enthusiasm for Star Wars Deux (or is that "Duh"?).

"After all" he said "It's not like we were asking Canada for anything."

True. Apparently we were being asked for no money, no strategic committment, and not even a scrap of land to launch missiles from.

So why are they so upset that we, having been asked for nothing, promptly gave them what they'd asked for?

Well, it's because of what the current guy in the Big White House needed desperately--Legitimacy. George the Second needs a partner so that he can validate having canned the SALT and ABM treaties for a plan that, as I have pointed out before, doesn't ₤µ€λing work.

Meantime, whatever consequences may befall us from refusing to participate in this exercise in avoiding negotiations, being hit by a US missile seems unlikely. And given that no-one else with missiles is pissed off at us at the moment . . .

(By the way--that "second failure" is actually the third or fourth.)