Will Harper Join Bush?

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The supposed ceasefire now shifts the focus, in the region, to NATO & peacekeeping.

Harper & Bush are playing it coy, but already there is speculation that a peacekeeping force will be set up, which might include Canadian troops or some other form of military commitment. Good thing Harper wasn’t in power when his hero Bush invaded Iraq, or we’d have been drawn into that one, as well. However what gets me wondering, is that despite the war and invasion of Georgia by Russia, NATO isn’t going to meet until next week.

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has called for an eventual peacekeeping force in the region.

The Prime Minister’s Office wouldn’t say whether Harper would be willing or able to commit Canada to participating in such a force.

NATO foreign ministers are to meet next week to review the situation. (source - CBC News)

Surely when a nation like Russia invades another nation nearby, NATO would be immediately meeting, to at least discuss the situation, and see what options the member nations are willing to do. I mean to at least show some sort of commonanility. Yet basically the member nations have done nothing. It is like the invasion is merely an after thought, something to whine about over brandy & cigars in the smoking room of the club.

Even the stock markets really didn’t react, which you have to admit is odd. I mean look at how they have gone ballistic each time Iran makes a statement of this or that, or some hack politician does. Oil goes up, prices go up, and stocks tumble. Yet here we have a major power invading another country, threatening two other neighbours, and the stock market is as quiet as a church mouse. Makes you wonder what they know, that we don’t.

Even the media are relatively quiet about the whole thing, so just who is putting the pressure on?

Ian @ August 17, 2008