Editor:
Great letter last week on Yemen (“Our ‘partner’ backs ISIS” by Cayce Laviolette). Yes, our own local MP is the mouthpiece for Middle East atrocities conducted in Canada’s name. It seems you can’t be cynical enough when considering our foreign policy, and here George Orwell is a better guide than CBC. The corporate mainstream media should stick to covering water skiing squirrels and Caitlyn Jenner rather than try to give intelligent, accurate political commentary.
Yemen gets bombed by the West because it challenges corrupt western ally Saudi Arabia. Syria’s big sin was to agree to a pipeline with Iraq and Iran; Iraq’s was to accept oil payments in euros, like Gaddafi’s was to create an African gold dinar. Dictators are quite all right with the West as long as they toe the line and until their policies affect the bottom petrodollar line.
In foreign affairs – America, NATO, the lackey role played by Canada – we’re the bad guys as we defend the petrodollar. Of course supposed progressive politicians like Obama and Trudeau go right along with this, enacting foreign policies no different than those of Bush or Harper. It seems it’s not so much a right/left thing, as an insider/outsider thing. George Carlin said, “It’s a club, and you ain’t in it.” Frank Zappa likewise said, “The illusion of democracy will be maintained until it’s no longer profitable to do so.”
America’s Wolfowitz Doctine, embraced by Democrats and Republicans, calls for the intentional destabilization of the Middle East to support the petrodollar. Google “General Wesley Clark speech” or “Iraqi nurse speech.”
In America, Donald Trump calls for an audit of the Federal Reserve, promotes peace with Russia, tells truth to power, is despised by establishment Wall Street, Washington and corporate media, has ripped the face off long-standing Democrat/Republican, Bush/Clinton corruption, and is an American hero.
David Rogers, Sechelt
