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Author:
Brent (Canada)
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Date Posted: 15:17:24 11/25/04 Thu
In reply to: Kevin 's message, "Bias" on 08:04:25 11/25/04 Thu
 Kevin:

I think you have probably summarized it well. The only reason our military and bureaucratic honchos are looking at it is in the knowledge that the US is going to do things with or without us. Having a seat at the table is so important to them, as well as appeasing the more red-blooded neo-cons at the Project for a New American Century.

In all honesty, we've been in this situation since 1940 and the Kingston Dispensation between FDR and Mackenzie King. The US would defend Canada from invasion so long as we guaranteed that Canada would not be a launch point for an invasion of the US. That meant that without Pearl Harbor, the US would have entered WWII the minute Japan or Germany fired one shot on Canadian soil.

Everything has evolved from this...In fact, one of my profs., who is a former Ass't Deputy Minister of Defence, said that the US has informally agreed to recognize Canadian sovereignty in the Northwest passage area.

There will be a day when American hegemony wanes, whether it be the decline of the US, or the rise of others. People like Charles Krauthammer argue that what's important is not the exertion of American supremacy, per se, but building a world structure that maintains stability beyond the day when the US ceases to be number one.
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Ed Harris (Venezia)
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Date Posted: 15:25:52 11/25/04 Thu

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