THECASCADE 3 NOVEMBER21 TODECEMBER5, 2001 LETfERSTo THE·EDITOR ANTI ANTI-AMERICANISM Or a highly biased view on why we shouldn't be so hasty to judge our south• em neighbors. Ok guys, enough already. You've made your point the firi'.I time around. American fon.:ign policy stinks, l would agree with you there. it renlly dues on occasion. Sumas Energy 2. the softwood lumber fiasco, the Iraqi trade sanclions, the bombing of Afghanistan, the list goes on ... they're really bad moves by the American government. And let's rtot for get thiH Osama bin Laden is USA's own creation, a modern day Frunkenstein t,1k.ing revenge against his creator. But what's with saying the Americans deserved to have two planes flown into World Trade cerller, and another run into the Pentagbn? Americ1-111 Foreign Policy? As l' ve said before. A111eric.1npolil'y is jltSI ploin rultell tit limes but lhc people at the World trade cc,ner had nothing to uo or :tl the most little to dn with what their government was d(.)ing in regards to other countries. Evc11most of the governnlent has nothiug lU d() with how America gets nlong with other countrills and what An1ericn'i: dealings (if auy) aro with thl'm. As is true with all co11nrries,a really rotten foreign policy is not due to an overnrching conspiracy by the governme111 (though ii is fun tu imagine th.it !hill's the case at times). bul a few well placed indi· viduals who unfortunately make really bad decisions. And despite opinion to the opposite, nn country can claim they h.ive clean hands when it comes to internation• al dealings. We, like the USA, have done thing. that we can't be proud of. Another thing that is disturbing is the rationalization of the acts of September 11. People are saying that the US deserved to be attacked because of their aforementioned horrible foreign policy. Yet Jcspite what veryane~viewpoint anybody C'(l/'I nmtrihure by just e-11wili11gyour suh111issio11s 10 ('a1·r·,1d(•(~y11,ji•.hc,r•(1. Now I can get on to better rhi11r,rshack to work. Since when docs this happen in a DEMOCRACY'} l heg you ln con~ider. in hindsight, the ramifi 1:nlions o/' sud, polilicul acrion ! Regarllless of whether Yl)LI agreed with the nurses' posirion throughout the whole situulion. ask y<\urself if 1hc Liberal gov ern111enlacted in H way that was conducive lo the whole democratic ideology. In other words, do you condone 1hc gov. ernment's power to for1:e people against their wishes or to act against their own SL'll. interest? fs that not called a DICTATORSHIP? Perhaps someone from the history Jepartment could refresh our collective memories .ibout such atrocities that have occurred in the past? In the summer of this year. the govern• ment quietly slipped liule ·wurning notices' into non.descripl envelopes and mailed them ollt with a pillance offering to ensure their receipt to those least likely to argue. fn the last day or two, the general public has become aware of those ·warning nntiC!c!s':welfare recipients with children over one year or age will be forced lu go ba1:k to work. Spct:il'ically. though, the media has reported 1lrnt SIN• GLE MOTHERS with the youngest i.:hild over 12 lllonths of age will be forcl;!d off lilt' system. Again, a system that supports primurily women has been targeted by the Liberal government and son1ething.tells me that they're 1101hlulling. There have bee,, no reports about single fathers. or single pe1)plein ge11eralhaving their sole source of income terminmed ns n result or huving 'exh.i11sred'l'he sysrem. After nll. I gi,ess the m;1joriry of' people who cnlil'L'l a welfote chcquc would be single 1110th er~. so if' changes were to be upplieJ 10 l11esysteliI. then that would be the I1lacc to start. right'! It's not as if they are :Jctually going to con1plain abou1 the way lhe government treats them ... they"ll ju~t hn\le their cheques uxcu that much sMncr. Be,ides. i:,1i'1the gliVI,:rnmcru stinlLIIUl• C.'0111i11ued nn Page 9