ca.news.yahoo.com — A majority of Canadians believe U.S. foreign policy was one of the root causes that led to the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, and Quebecers are quicker to criticize the U.S. administration for its international actions than other Canadians, a recent poll suggests.
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lingua203Sep 8, 2006
Well no freaking kidding? As if they attacked the WTC because they don't like Pepsi? Of course our foreign policy had to do with it! DUHHHHHH!!!
m0nkSep 9, 2006
Done...so stfu already.
henaroSep 9, 2006
f**k Canada.
Closed AccountSep 9, 2006
"Can anyone out there name one empire/dynasty in the history of human civilization that has not fallen? "Well, the US hasn't (i guess we count as an empire).As to your guy's-sister-gets-raped-etc story, you're not talking about US foreign policy there. You're talking about the actions of one theoretical guy. If you hold the US responsible for that, you might as well hold Iraq responsible for 9/11.
Closed AccountSep 9, 2006
This is the fault of the United States. Canada has never recovered from the damage done to their gene pool by Americans fleeing the draft during the Vietnam War.
repinsSep 10, 2006
Your same logic applies when children in the US are shown video of what happened on 9/11 and told "Muslim Extremists" did this....after viewing what is happening in Iraq, Iran and Lebanon the word "Extremist" gets forgotten because it seems this kind of behavior is not extreme at all, but rather the norm.
damavSep 11, 2006
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tehnicoSep 11, 2006
I apologize in advance for the length. I wanted to address everything here.----------------------------Do most Canadians also believe Canadian foreign policy was responsible for the recent Muslim terrorist activity in Ontario?----------------------------I do. Right or wrong, we are in afghanistan and lots of extremists draw only one conclusion from that. Get them!----------------------------I've been all over the US, all over Canada (lived in Calgary for 7 years, family in NS). Visited England, Wales, France, Italy, Portugal, Morocco, Venezuela, Mexico, Greece. I've been exposed to a lot of attitudes toward the US, and have been surprised by how many people have a negative outlook on US foreign and domestic policy.----------------------------I agree with you here, but only because you didn't mention any of the targeted Countries. Those you mention don't have any reason to have a negative view of American foreign policy, because American policy benefits them. While many Iraqis, Afghanis, Iranians, Kurds, Palestinians, Syrians, Tutsies, would have reason to feel such ill.---------------------------Militarily, the US is and for many years has been in a no-win situation. If we involve ourselves in foreign wars, we're criticized for military adventurism or "capitalist imperialism" (a ridiculous contradiction in terms). If we stand back and take the position that it's not our responsibility to fix all the injustices of the world, we're criticized for allowing to die/kill/dominate their neighbors/commit attrocities against their own people/whatever.--------------------------Of course. But I think the focus of negative attention the US gets is when it IS THEm committing the atrocities, Vietnam, the first 50 bomb strikes of Operation Iraqi freedom etc... Which all were proven to have had a 0% success rate (missed all their targets).--------------------------All right, folks, you want to see what the negative effects of US policy are? Fine, let's cut off hundreds of billions a year in foreign aid. (Even Canada gets a little, and I'm talking about direct aid here, not the cut-rate drugs Canada gets from US drug manufactuers, which help to shore up its disastrous medical system.)-------------------------Fine we'll cut off all your precious bottled water, wheat, beef, pork and lumber. You'd be way more f**kt then us. After all, Canadian wood almost single handedly fueled your housing market boom. As for the disastrous health care as you put it. It's not the best in the world. Private health care is the best in the world. But that's not what our health care system is trying to accomplish. It's trying to bring equal health care and access to as many citizens as it can. For that, it does earn the title, best system in the world.-------------------------Anyone in Europe wish we'd avoided the military adventurism of WWI? WWII? How about the US taxpayer-supported personnel and weaponry that kept Western Europe free throughout the cold war?-------------------------That is not military adventurism, it's duty and obligation.-------------------------Let's face it, Canada has a little brother complex toward the US. Hey, I watched Canadian news for years and was amazed at how little of it actually related to Canada and how much focused on the US. I can understand Canadians being upset that most Americans can't name more than a couple of Canadian provinces (and that's the Americans who even know what a "province" is).------------------------I Agree. For a long time Canada has felt a 51st state culture. But in the last five-ten years Canada has developed it own sense of nationalism. We have moved away from the US on many issues, socially and economically.-----------------------But if US policies of protecting free countries, feeding the starving billions of the semi-free and thoroughly subjugated socialist cesspools of the world, and refusing to apologize for having created a political-economic system that allows us to do so while providing ourselves with a standard of living the likes of which the world has never seen CAUSED people to hate us, then there's only one thing to say to those people: f**k YOU. f**k your political systems, f**k your envy, f**k your refusal to acknowledge what the US has done on your behalf, and f**k your refusal to adopt a political system (free market capitalism, about which too many Americans believe your lies) that for over 200 years has allowed the creation of wealth beyond the wildest dreams of leftist, dictatorial, socialist, and monarchical rulers throughout history.-----------------------------Well you're just angry, and you're allowed to be, so I'm not going to debate you emotions. But as far as money goes, and wealth. Thanks to American inflation and economic policies around the world for the last 100 years, wealth and value and fiat money systems have contributed to some of the lowest standards of living imaginable in first world countries. My dollar has a tenth the purchasing power it had one hundred years ago, thanks to the federal reserve alone.---------------------------Open your eyes.---------------------------I would suggest the same to you. It's a big world, and lots of countries do their part for America too. I could easily consider America is the backbone of the world, in strength and balls. But a lot of good some old dusty bones do without a body to keep it going.
tehnicoSep 11, 2006
I DIGG+ for the comedy!!!!
colemanmSep 11, 2006
Political articles on digg are laughably ignorant and hilarious. I'm just glad the idiots on this site are too lazy to take action supporting their insane opinions...
cheeseheadSep 12, 2006
It's disappointing to see so many caught up and chasing their tails, in the traditional left vs right s**t storm.Some of America's main economic engines are guns oil and dope. (GOD)All of these interests are at stake in the middle east and that's why your forces are there. It has nothing to do with democracy or saving oppressed peoples. That's just pap to misdirect the "useful idiots."Canadians have been temporarily misled by their "one version" media and they have elected a useful idiot/company man to replace a worn out gov't. which lost it's way. That's how we got into your war in Afghanistan and that's why we're there now.Hopefully both of our so-called democracies will rid themselves of these special interests, before anymore murder and havoc can be visited upon anymore primitive cultures.
lamestorySep 12, 2006
that's it, we're nuking your stupid canadian asses. see if the royal mount-me police can stop us.