Peter McKay, Canada’s Minister of Foreign Affairs spoke out Sunday and made it clear that Iran has a good share of the blame for the deaths in the Israel/Hezbollah conflict. In no uncertain terms McKay said:
"(Iran..) are certainly behind much of the difficulty that’s going on in the region by funding Hezbollah, by supporting them in terms of their activities against Israel. They have a great deal of responsibility and blood on their hands from their activities.."
McKay is doing a fine job supporting the Canadian government’s stance against the terrorists and it is interesting that this principled approach may even be winning some hearts and minds at home.
Meanwhile, on the opposite end of the decency scale three opposition MP’s went on a ‘fact-finding’ trip to Lebanon this past weekend, where some helpful folks showed them lots of damaged buildings and infrastructure.
The three - Liberal MP Borys Wrzesnewskyj, Bloc MP Maria Mourani and NDP MP Peggy Nash then went on to disgrace themselves and Canada with ignorant and dangerous comments that look and sound like appeasement.
The worst of the three is Wrzesnewskyj who said: "It’s quite obvious that terrible crimes have been committed" before going on to declare them ‘crimes against humanity’. But his most telling comment came when he suggested that Hezbollah be de-listed as a terrorist organization in Canada.
Peggy Nash added her piece of nonsense with "It’s just not helpful to label them a terrorist organization". Well, it’s not helpful that Hezbollah kidnapped two Israeli soldiers, fired hundreds of rockets indiscriminately into Israel and used innocent Lebanese civilians as human shields, but she had nothing to say on that.
The three clueless politicians have no idea that their bleeding-heart liberal attitudes only prolong the conflict by giving the enemy comfort and the hope that they can win over soft targets like Canadians by turning the empty heads that these elected representatives possess. They are a far larger part of the problem than they could even imagine - and that is the pity for they do this without thought for the global context but only to try and score points against Stephen Harper’s minority government and a few minority votes in their own ridings. Their self-interest and lack of ability to recognize Hezbollah as a disgusting organization that has no regard for human life of any stripe will achieve not one small step toward ending the conflict.
It is easy to dismiss these as three minor players with no real voice at home, but while in Lebanon they represent Canada, and their comments will be seen as a chink in the armour that Hezbollah will try and work at to achieve through propaganda what it cannot through military or terror tactics.
UPDATE: Borys Wrzesnewskyj turns out to be both a liar and a coward. Once some heat started coming over his comments about de-listing Hezbollah he pulled the typical Fiberal trick and denied the comments. Borys should do Canada and the world a favour and stay home in future - his lack of knowledge and spine does not serve him on a world stage, and his words diminish us all.
UPDATE #2: Borys Wrzesnewskyj has resigned his position within the Liberal caucus, details here.
