Doug - Hmmmm...I'm actually not quite sure what you mean by that, but I don't feel you have slighted Canada in any way. I am relieved to live in a country that arms to merely defend itself, rather than to attack others, but that is the way with minor powers generally. Still, Canada is a particularly unaggressive country as they go, while the USA is a particularly aggressive one...as they go. I give the old USA a 9.5 out of ten on the aggressiveness scale.

I think that as soon as Saddam is gone, another symbolic enemy will be found, and as soon as that one is gone, another, and so on. It's a game. A big one. And a game requires an opponent or two. In this game, the opponent must be a "monster", a villain of superhuman proportions, the "next Hitler", that sort of thing...

Wait and see. Saddam is just the latest one to wear that handy crown, for the sake of the propaganda mill, now that Osama is nowhere to be found (or possibly dead).

- LH