CURRIE: We are not blameless

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CURRIE: We are not blameless

Published in Wadena News on November 19, 2014

I felt my blood pressure rising as I listened to the responses of Stephen Harper and Justin Trudeau regarding the killing of two Canadian soldiers in Ontario and Quebec.

These senseless killings will rend the heart of anyone who has one, and the expressions of sympathy from these political leaders were quite appropriate in that regard.

Then the politics cut in. They should have quit while they were ahead.

Do these two political leaders know that we (mostly NATO countries) have carried out a million times more acts of terror on middle Asian countries than they on us?

We don’t carry out random acts of terror; we destroy whole countries – in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria – the list goes on. In these senseless illegal wars we have created millions of refugees, killed millions of civilians and left their countries in ruin.

George W. Bush said these people hate us for our freedoms. No; they hate us for bombing them and torturing them in prisons like Abu Ghraib, Bagram, and Guantanamo Bay. Think of the grief, anger and pain we have wrought.

As Pogo said: “We have met the enemy and he is us.”

Bev Currie
Swift Current, SK