The intrinsic fallacy of Middle Eastern policy, Big Brother's Snoop Law, CBC

As much as I would wish a Western-style democracy on the Middle East, reality points to the opposite. In the 21st century it is almost impossible to imagine the carnage and implacable hostility that has infused this region throughout history. No matter how dysfunctional their societies have become, the Muslims cling to their various sects, all of whom seem to despise each other as apostates. I have even observed this among second generation Islamic immigrants in Canada. The number of unbelievers who have been killed in the last two decades is dwarfed by the numbers that have been slaughtered inter-faith. This fact has been shoved to the background by our Muslim critics in the West. Somehow Saddam's massacre of the Kurds and the Shi'ites in Iraq has been forgotten in the need to cleanse Iraq of the "crusader". Of course, the fact that they are even Muslim which is predicated on Mohammed's crusades out of Saudi Arabia has been conveniently forgotten.

The exquisite irony (Iraq is loaded with irony) of this fact has been seemingly lost on al-Qaeda. The nonsense that if the Western allies left Iraq, then there would be be a peaciful kingdom is sheer delusion. What would replace it would be uncontrolled sectarian / religious mayhem. All pretense of a unified democratic Iraq would be buried. So the American / British contigent is caught in the quagmire of religious ambitions. Anarchy is the name of the game here. Wishful thinking is not going to change that. Already, the Iraqi constitution is bogged down in how much Islamic sharia law will gain a stranglehold on the civil law. The slightly more female-positive Kurds, who also like their arrak, are in conflict with the fundamentalist Shi'ites and Sunnis, who see booze as forbidden.

Then there is the really big question of who gets to control the oil revenues. The Iranian-influenced Shi'ites have, until now, held off their vengance against the Sunni suicide bombers; however there are now reports that they have begun to act. A Westerner can only shake his head in seeing what possible advantage al-Qaeda and the Baathists can gain in their homicidal attacks on the majority Shi'ites. Between the Kurds and the Shi'ites they could annihilate their enemy. Perhaps we in the West should simply pull out and let it come down. Even in the more Westernized Lebanon, the roots of internecine violence is only briefly hidden. A statement made to me by a guide in a trip to the Beekas Valley of Lebanon years ago still rings loudly. As we were passing the Shatila Palestinian camp in Beirut, he said, "Look down there. Those bastards will destroy our country." A year later, he was proved right, as they helped pull the cork on the bottle of religious violence. I think I know what Bush et al wanted to accomplish, but a depraved religiosity will defeat that aspiration every time.

© Bud Talkinghorn



Big Brother's Snoop Law

Even an innocuous e-mail is now going to be subject to government interdiction if the Liberals have their way. The Justice Minister wants to bring in a blanket snoop law which would allow the authorities to tap any internet communication--to catch the terrorists you understand. Of course, by accident, they will be able to track any anti-government correspondence as well. Hello Big Brother.


CBC -- seems to be unloved and unwanted

Lately, the only bright sign is that CBC TV--the mouthpiece of the Liberals--has been closed down by strike. While I miss the best of it, the endless loony-left crap I don't miss at all.

© Bud Talkinghorn




Ironic, isn't it Bud? Most letters to the editor and the scuttlebutt I hear show that people are fed up with CBC-Liberal Propaganda Organ's Liberal / leftist slant on everything. This has turned away what few were supportive of the mothercorps in the past. We might like some CBC productions but we have had enough of the blatant politicking for the NDP/Librano$.

Wouldn't it be delightful to watch so much without the play by play from some CBC type? Without the anti-American, anti-religion, anti-conservative, et cetera slant?

When I hear terrorists or terrorist supporters treated with that uniquely CBC respectful tone reserved for those CBC is directing us (not too subtly) to support, I turn away, cut it off, say I want better. I get better from several radio stations over the net. NJC