A Canadian super-front, page 1

reply to post by luckyfourteen

If Canadians seriously believe that they are under any military threat from America, I fear they have heard too much from someone with a very vivid imagination.

The West in general, with America acting as frontman, obviously has no qualms about procuring a ridiculously wasteful lifestyle at the expense of others, that much I grant you. However there are several related principles which generally preclude an outright American attack on Canada.

For one, the United States already has an incredible and undue influence on the government of Canada, owing in large part to the central role America plays as the procurer of blood-soaked luxury for the rest of the West (or if you prefer to see it in terms less villifying to yourself, you could say owing to economic entanglements which are made even stronger for Canada by the fact that America and Canada are neighbors).

For another thing, it is only possible for civilized people (I'll thank you to grant, just for the sake of argument, that we Americans are infact civilized) to be led into such sins by media campaigns which rationalize the action and dehumanize the victims, if not hiding them entirely. That is easy to do in the case of people in lands we know nothing about, who do not share our religion, whose names sound like the names of our enemies, who do not speak our language, and who do not have the technology to communicate directly to our people on a large scale. Most Americans go to Starbucks and get their "Great Rift Valley Blend" coffee without even registering the fact that that's in Ethiopia, and wondering why Ethiopians of all people are growing a crop of zero nutritional value to export to the most overfed people on this planet. It would be another matter entirely if the powers that be tried to exploit Canada on such a scale. I think most Americans would be unable to take that sitting down. If your Prime Minister had a strange name and wore an eyepatch and was accused of harboring terrorists, I admit some of us might be led against you, but barring that, I think it would be a really hard sell to the American people. Even the most narrow minded bigot would disblieve allegations against Canada simply because they generally associate terrorists with camels, and unless there's something I don't know about your country, I don't think a camel would have a snowball's chance in hell in the wild in Canada.

You're safe. Hell, you're buddy-buddy with the school bully- who would dare screw with you?