Media do their bit to stir up hate against Muslims around the world
It was days before most journalists drew proper distinction between majority of Islamic world, tiny minority [Graph Not Transcribed] When the backlash against North American Muslims (not to mention those abroad) continues to escalate, the mainstream media will decry the ignorance behind attacks on innocent practitioners of a religion taken to extremes by a small […]
Today’s game is about rise of religious terrorism, not ideologies
Boundaries have collapsed, geography reinvented, demographic osmosis has changed ultural metropolis [Graph Not Transcribed] The United States is at a crossfire. On the one side, there are grandchildren of Stalin who are still living in a Cold War era and on the other side, there’s a small group of religious fanatics who are fighting against […]
Parliament’s US-watchers predict closer ties following tragedy
Sen. Doug Roche says missile defence system futile, more money should be put into intelligence and security The recent, unparalleled terrorist attacks on the United States of America have led some of Parliament’s top U.S. watchers to call on Canada to move closer to the U.S. when it comes to foreign policy. Last week, U.S. […]
We Americans have acted too proud for gutter fight: protracted conflict begins, the struggle against terrorism will define us now and forever more
[Graph Not Transcribed] WASHINGTON, D.C.–It was like scenes from the 1996 pop science fiction film Independence Day with great buildings collapsing and crowds fleeing in terror. But they were very real World Trade Center buildings falling on Sept. 11 and yet uncounted thousands of Americans are dead not in momentary fantasy but in crude reality. […]
The horror invites irrelevance
[Graph Not Transcribed] Watching Armageddon on this September day, the 11th, which is my birthday. The horror of this epic tragedy struggles for definition and invites irrelevance. The head cannot take it in; the imagination can’t cope. Proof of this is offered by the journalists at the scene of the World Trade Center who are […]
Americans must also unleash their impressive diplomatic arsenal
Being despised comes with territory of being sole superpower, but U.S. shouldn’t lose sight of responsibilities [Graph Not Transcribed] [Graph Not Transcribed] The United States of America will never be the same again. Its psyche has been irreversibly affected, its pride dented and its sense of invulnerability penetrated. Last Tuesday’s attacks on U.S. symbols of […]
“It can happen here”: and House Speaker Peter Milliken expects sombre House as MPs return
No government in the world, including Canada’s, can ever totally protect itself from the type of suicide hijacking attack visited upon our American neighbours last week, House Speaker Peter Milliken says. “It can happen here,” Mr. Milliken (Kingston and the Islands, Ont.) said Sept. 11, only two hours after the realization of the magnitude of […]
Question period: “Where were you when you heard about terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and how did you react?”
[Graph Not Transcribed] “It was about 9:50 a.m. when I heard about these terrorist attacks. I was in my office at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University and getting ready to meet my first class. My first reaction was disbelief. Like everybody else, I was shocked. After my class, I went home and turned […]
Liberal MPs in New York City and Washington, DC
[Graph Not Transcribed] [Graph Not Transcribed] [Graph Not Transcribed] Redman and Kraft Sloan took refuge in D.C. hotel’s basement From the vantage point of his room at the UN Plaza’s Millennium Hotel, just a few blocks away from the World Trade Center in New York City, Liberal MP Janko Peric witnessed first hand the gruesome […]
Forget anti-American hysteria
[Graph Not Transcribed] Shortly after the horrific events Monday morning in New York City, your correspondent ran into a veteran radio broadcaster whose initial reaction to this disaster was as follows: “Somebody in Washington has to pay for this. What a terribly embarrassing breakdown of U.S. intelligence. What on earth was the CIA doing. They’re […]
