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WikiLeaks cables cause sensation internationally, Canada no exception
The curious fact is that Canadians still believe their anti-Americanism is harmless. Alongside anti-Americanism goes the moral outrage of which Jim Judd spoke.
The purloined WikiLeaks cables have caused a sensation all over the world, and Canada has been no exception The former head of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, Jim Judd, told a senior visiting U.S. State Department official in July 2008 that Canadians had an " 'Alice in Wonderland' worldview," suffered from "knee-jerk anti-Americanism," and would fall into "paroxysms of moral outrage, a Canadian specialty" at the drop of a hat. Judd had much more to say, but these comments are worth consideration.
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WikiLeaks cables cause sensation internationally, Canada no exception
The curious fact is that Canadians still believe their anti-Americanism is harmless. Alongside anti-Americanism goes the moral outrage of which Jim Judd spoke.
The purloined WikiLeaks cables have caused a sensation all over the world, and Canada has been no exception The former head of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, Jim Judd, told a senior visiting U.S. State Department official in July 2008 that Canadians had an " 'Alice in Wonderland' worldview," suffered from "knee-jerk anti-Americanism," and would fall into "paroxysms of moral outrage, a Canadian specialty" at the drop of a hat. Judd had much more to say, but these comments are worth consideration.
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