Wednesday, August 23, 2006
Everything Jason Kenney says is really dumb: the first in an occasional, but not nearly occasional enough, series
I'm not really sure how reasonable a comparison the one between Hezbollah and the Nazis is (I suspect not really very reasonable, because it was made by Jason Kenney and because Hezbollah does not actually control the mechanism of a state, which was kind of key to the Nazis' success). What I'm quite sure is unreasonable is using the comparison to justify a prohibition on dialogue between the Canadian government and Hezbollah, which is what Jason Kenney was doing. I mean, can you imagine how completely fucking stupid a policy that stipulated that Canada (or, better yet, England or France) wasn't allowed to talk to the German government in the thirties would have been? Jesus.
I also enjoy how, in response to response to Liberal Borys Wrzesnewskyj's explicit statement that Hezbollah was a terrorist group preying on Israel, Kenney said that "[Wrzesnewskyj and his ilk's] view of a balanced approach is one where Israel is always wrong."
In conclusion, everything Jason Kenney says is really dumb.
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I'm not really sure how reasonable a comparison the one between Hezbollah and the Nazis is (I suspect not really very reasonable, because it was made by Jason Kenney and because Hezbollah does not actually control the mechanism of a state, which was kind of key to the Nazis' success). What I'm quite sure is unreasonable is using the comparison to justify a prohibition on dialogue between the Canadian government and Hezbollah, which is what Jason Kenney was doing. I mean, can you imagine how completely fucking stupid a policy that stipulated that Canada (or, better yet, England or France) wasn't allowed to talk to the German government in the thirties would have been? Jesus.
I also enjoy how, in response to response to Liberal Borys Wrzesnewskyj's explicit statement that Hezbollah was a terrorist group preying on Israel, Kenney said that "[Wrzesnewskyj and his ilk's] view of a balanced approach is one where Israel is always wrong."
In conclusion, everything Jason Kenney says is really dumb.
