America's quiet neighbor to the north has arrested seventeen of its citizens and legal residents on charges that they were trying to obtain several tons of ammonium nitrate to make a bomb. All have roots in south Asia and ties to a single mosque in the Toronto suburbs.
Meanwhile, America's former Cold-War archenemy has suffered the kidnapping of four of its diplomats in Baghdad.
Neither Canada nor Russia has been noteworthy for its involvement in Iraq or its support of Israel. Far from it. But both have now been targeted by Islamic extremists.
Presumably the Russians might have been kidnapped in protest against Russia's war in Chechnya, or to pressure Russia not to deal with Iran's Shiite mullahs, or to deal even more kindly with Iran's Shiite mullahs. All kinds of root causes can be offered for that move that almost seem politically reasonable.
For Canada, presumably the terrorists were upset that Carolina might win the Stanley Cup over Edmonton. We certainly can't assume that these men simply want the Queen removed from the stamps and money and sharia law imposed on the happy, diverse Canadian population.
But one thing's for sure: there's no place to hide. Nations that choose appeasement will get war. Those that prosecute the war vigorously will prevail.
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