Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs John Manley competed in the New York City Marathon finishing the race in four hours and thirty minutes. That was the best thing he did all week.
For most of last week Manley was in the Middle East. While in Syria and Iran he failed even the neighborliest criticism of two nations long on the known list of nations, which sponsor terrorism. He mentioned to his hosts in Iran that they had connections with some the terrorist groups now under suspicion and they in turn brushed him off and claimed that they were “freedom fighters”. Same in Syria.
In Israel and again in the Palestinian territory he equated the attacks by Hamas to Israeli retaliation and basically refused to acknowledge why Israel had troops in Palestinian territory in the first place. He said that they should leave immediately to benefit “global security”. Lecturing Israel who has suffered under its own terrorist attacks constantly since the countries inception is not helpful.
Unwitting or not Manley was used by those nations and groups, which are against the war on terrorism that Canada is playing apart. He was duped and the leaders of the region knew that they could manipulate the situation and Manley himself.
The National Post One reporter noted that, “The Canadian team was bumped from the sixth floor down to the fifth to make way for the President of Croatia. And when Mr. Blair set plans to visit Jerusalem today, the Canadians were moved all the way down to the third.” Yep, that pretty much sums up the situation in Canada-bumped down by lesser nations like Croatia. In short its shows a lousy foreign policy led by someone who shouldn’t be appointed ambassador to Malta.
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