Iraq Debate: The Center Of Gravitas Shifts

...to Jean Chretien.  Mind you, I'm not particularly set in my opinions re Canada's contribution to the fight against ISIS.  These thoughts still apply, more so, perhaps, now that the tide seems to have turned in Kobani.  But JC's main point, that there are more roles to be played in this situation beyond bomb-lobbing, and that being among the bomb-lobbers now may preclude taking up certain other roles later, is a sound one.  It's is certainly nice to hear an adult voice in this debate, rather than kooks like Terry Glavin, who seems to be dabbling a bit heavy in some kind testosterone replacement therapy.

At Least He Kept His Ass Outta Jail

NP compares former PM to notorious jail-bird, plumps for jail-bird.

Meanwhile even now Lord Tubby is bartering his Order of Canada for cigarettes.

A Great Victory

"For the independence of the country, saying no to the Americans on the war was a great moment for Canada," Chretien says.

It was, and Stephen Harper and Ralph Klein and Mike Harris and every Conservative in the country should be force-marched to Montreal (or wherever he keeps these days) and be made to kiss his ass.

Repeat after me: they're our neighbor, not our nation; they're our neighbor, not our nation; they're our...