No to the Participation of Canadian Forces in U.S. Aggression Against Afghanistan! All Foreign Forces Get Out of Afghanistan and the Persian Gulf!
– TML Daily, October 17, 2001 –
TML Daily reiterates its vigorous opposition to Canadian participation in the U.S. “war on terrorism” and its aggression against Afghanistan as well as to the U.S. presence in the Persian Gulf. No amount of self-serving propaganda about the worthiness of the cause will make it so because the cause is not designed to eliminate terrorism but to establish U.S. hegemony over the entire region which has now been extended from the Persian Gulf to Central Asia.
Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien is recalling with pride Canadian participation in the Korean War but it too was a war of aggression. The crimes committed during that war by the U.S., including the crimes against civilians, are yet to be recognized, let alone redressed. The Korean Peninsula is still a target of the U.S. “war on terrorism,” as is Iraq and any other country which the U.S. will decide to attack. Far from delivering war-mongering speeches which seek to glorify aggression in the name of “civilized values,” the Prime Minister should be spelling out for Canadian soldiers and sailors and their families the danger this U.S.-led adventure poses to world peace.
The frantic secret diplomacy in which the U.S., Britain and even Jean Chretien are engaged in shows that they give the green light to themselves to launch aggressions while they still seek to use deal-making and compromises to keep others in line. But this could backfire at any time and a much larger war could break out as the rivals of U.S. imperialism also seek to elbow one another out of spheres of influence, markets and sources of raw materials.
The urgent task facing the Canadian working class and people today is to oppose U.S. aggression abroad and Canada’s participation in it. It is to organize the people to establish anti-war governments, get Canada out of NATO and NORAD and call for their dismantling and oppose the measures to criminalize dissent and quell resistance at home.
No to Canada’s Participation in U.S. Aggression and War!
Hands Off Afghanistan!
Get Out of the Persian Gulf! End the Sanctions Against Iraq, Now!
End the Occupation of Palestine, Now!
