[stck]

Seems to me Mr. Steyn is being a tad hysterical. I don't know where to start: there were all kind of smuggled weapons found in Iraq - and Canadians are not even "European".

Mixing a few unrelated facts blown out of proportion together is NOT sound journalism, Mr. Steyn.

[maica]

You may consider Canada as part of this group ---




On 11 September 2001, I wrote that one of the casualties of the day’s events would be the Western alliance: ‘The US taxpayer’s willingness to pay for the defence of Canada and Europe has contributed to the decay of America’s so-called “allies”, freeing them to disband their armed forces, flirt with dictators and gangster states, and essentially convert themselves to semi-non-aligned.’ ‘The West’ was an obsolete concept, because, as I put it later that month, for everyone but America ‘the free world is mostly a free ride’.