Letter From Canuckistan

Thank goodness (sometimes) for slow news days. As I sit here with my fingers in my ears waiting for something truly earth-shattering (it could happen, under this administration) to come across my wires, occasionally I run across a jewel to share with you. This letter to Condiliezza appeared in the Winnipeg Free Press. Thanks to 42.

I know it seems improbable to your divinely guided master in the White House that mere mortals might disagree with participating in a missile-defence system that has failed in its last three tests, even though the tests themselves were carefully rigged to show results.

Such control-freak antics may work in the virtual one-party state that now prevails in Washington. But in Canada we have a residual belief that politicians should be subject to a few checks and balances, an idea that your country once espoused before the days of empire.

To protect people against international crimes like genocide and ethnic cleansing, they support new institutions like the International Criminal Court -- which, by the way, you might strongly consider using to hold accountable those committing atrocities today in Darfur, Sudan.

And these Canadians believe that the United Nations should indeed be reformed -- beginning with an agreement to get rid of the veto held by the major powers over humanitarian interventions to stop violence and predatory practices.

Gee, whatta buncha commies, eh?