On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 7:31 AM, Larry Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've been talking with friends and relatives in throughout Canada. Most of > them have been generally pro American. Not any more. Many of them use the > same phrasing as was used with the Soviets 25 years ago. Most think that the > US is the problem now, and is a major threat to world peace. Several of them > have stated outright that the US is not to be trusted to uphold its > obligations. A couple of them said that the US will only honour treaties > only if it suits it, and it ignores the rule of law. > > The sad part of it is that these people are generally towards the more > conservative end of Canadian politics. If they think this way, you can > imagine what the rest of the country thinks. And Canada is probably the > closest of the US allies. I think they are somewhat right. Bush's stance was basically "I'll do what I want, everyone and everything else be damned"....including what the American people want! When we elect Obama, the pendulum will swing back....probably farther to the left than most would be comfortable with....but that is just the way of our equilibrium. Instead of being able to successfully navigate the middle, we balance with almost equal swings to the right and left. > indeed. nothing good comes from this sort of thing. At present, that's true, but good can come in the future if you learn from your mistakes. Perhaps a silver lining of the George Bush administration is that....we won't elect another George W. Bush. -- If you choose not to decide You still have made a choice ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:264330 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
