Diplomat Robert Fowler- Good speech

I give this man credit. He had the guts to call it as he see's it! His speech is from the Liberal party meeting. Nice to hear some truth telling.

On Israeli favouritism displayed by both the Liberals and Conservatives:

Fowler also charged that both the Liberal and Conservative parties are contributing to turmoil in the Middle East and fostering international terrorism by pandering to Jewish voters in Canada with blindly uncritical support for Israel in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

He said in using foreign policy exclusively for domestic purposes and "scrambling to lock up the Jewish vote,"

"I do deplore the abandonment of our hard-won reputation for objective analysis and decency as a result of our reckless Middle Eastern posturing."

He said it seems anyone who presumes to acknowledge this is immediately labelled anti-Semitic, just as anyone criticizing the "Afghan folly" faces accusations of being disloyal to our troops.

"I guess we are supposed to presume that the allure of jihad will inexorably dim as Israel builds ever more settlements in illegally occupied territories in contravention of a myriad of international judgments and hope that 10 million Palestinians will just forget about it and decide that being homeless and stateless and living for a fourth generation in impossibly squalid refugee camps is an outcome that they'd just better suck down and accept."

Speaking of Afghanistan:

It appears our goal in Afghanistan is to colonize the country and replace its culture with ours, a mission impossible for which the Taliban know Canada lacks the resources and dedication to accomplish.

"They understand enough about our attention-deficit addled politics to know that we simply do not have the heart for a long-haul casualty-heavy, intense, brutal, no-holds-barred struggle in which none of our vital interests are engaged."

"The bottom line is that we will not prevail in Afghanistan,"
"Once we understand and accept that reality it is time to leave, not a moment, not a life and not a dollar later."