Republicans For Ignatieff
July 25th, 2009 Posted in Canada Election
Great new site that is getting behind Iggy. And driving the left nuts.
Who’s really behind this?
Some of the great quotes:
“I loved my own country, but I believed in America in a way that Canada never allowed”
Michael Ignatieff
(“What we think of America.” Granta. March 28, 2002)
To defeat evil, we may have to traffic in evils: indefinite detention of suspects, coercive interrogations, targeted assassinations, even pre-emptive war.
Michael Ignatieff
(New York Times Magazine, May 2004.)
It’s good to know that we have a Liberal leader that is willing to take the side of us right-wing extremists.
July 26th, 2009 at 5:34 am
This is what makes Canada a joke on the international scene.
The same people that call President George Walker Bush a “war criminal” are the same people who are going to vote for Iggy in the next election even though Bush and Iggy share the exact same philosophy.
Think about that for a minute.
A liberal is going to vote for Iggy even though he defends a “war criminal”.
Canadian politics is starting to get real childish and utterly ridiculous.
July 26th, 2009 at 5:37 am
BTW, the link isn’t working.
July 26th, 2009 at 6:28 am
David Bromwich has an excellent post on our serial wars in which he quotes Michael Ignatieff, a just war theorist, who threw his support behind the invasion of Iraq. In an article in the New York Times Magazine, Ignatieff argued that war is “a matter of American civic duty.”
In the article he tells us:
Regime change is an imperial task par excellence, since it assumes that the empire’s interest has a right to trump the sovereignty of a state. Regime change also raises the difficult question for Americans of whether their own freedom entails a duty to defend the freedom of others beyond their borders…Yet it remains a fact…that there are many people who owe their freedom to an exercise of military power.
He then goes on to cite Afghanistan and Iraq as recipients of American benevolence, a gift I’m sure the citizens of these countries celebrate daily.