09.12.2002 || 21h24

A few thoughts about beer and the Prime Minister

Speaking of Maritime Canada, to-day we became the first Pub in Montr�al to sell Moosehead. It's a fine brew -- for a Lager, that is. Anyway, Hurley's sells it too now, and I assume that other pubs will quickly follow suit, as people start to ask for it. As a friend of mine remarked when I called him with the news: 'It's about time.'

So, in an interview about 9/11 and the subsequent loss of common sense in North America and the UK, Prime Minister Chr�tien linked the attacks to the arrogance and greed of the West. in part, he said that 'You cannot excercise your poers to the point f humiliating others. That is what the western world -- not only the Americans, the western world -- has to realise... there are long-term consequences.' He then went on to say that 'I do think that the western world is getting too rich in relation to the poor world and necessarily will be looked upon as being arrogant and self-satisfied, greedy and with no limits.' I'm in absolute agony over the fact that I agree with our PM over *anything,* but it was nice to see the leader of one of those arrogant nations to actually admit that we're even remotely to blame for those events, and whereas I found the events in question to be tragic, so was (and still is) the utter rape of the middle east that is perpetuated in the name of the western consumer's right to drive SUVs; so's the loss of innumerable innocent Iraqi lives for which the US has been directly responsible since the end of the failure known as the 'Gulf War.' This is where I find an inherent racism in the rhetoric that's being bandied about by the Bush administration and the media. They've already changed 9/11 from a tragedy to an excuse. They've already changed the dead from victims into martyrs to the cause of the US's market share on the world stage.

And at the end of the day, every Yankee soccer mom who drives an SUV and guzzles gas is to blame. Every Canuck who doesn't care about the effects of the sanctions on Iraq is to blame. Every Limey who thinks that Blair's sabre-rattling is even *remotely* justified is to blame. Every person who thinks that American foreign policy makes sense is to blame.

These are examples of Western arrogance.

But at the end of the day lies the chilling fact that, tragedy or no, 9/11 was the best thing that could have happened to George W Bush.



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