Would You Think I Was Crazy if I Said the U.S. Should Invade Canada?

It is no secret that our neighbor to the north has had some disagreement with its First Nation population (people who, in the U.S., would be known as "Native Americans").  Earlier this year, the Chief of Attawapiskat went on a hunger strike to call attention to "unfinished business in terms of relationships, Aboriginal rights, and in terms of our relationship with the land.” See http://bit.ly/WQD2I3.  And this week, Huffington Post Canada reports, the Hupacasath Nation is in court with the Canadian government, trying to stop a trade deal with China which it claims will negatively affect its rights in natural resources.  See http://huff.to/1925ksB.  

Would you think I was certifiable if I said that the U.S. should invade Canada to militarily impose a solution that we deem fit on Canada and its First Nation people?  Well, yes, of course you would!  And if, eleven years from now, I tried to disown or explain away those comments, would you still think that I was, at best, pretty nutty, that I made outlandish statements about a country and a situation about which I obviously was quite ignorant, and that I was unfit to hold a high diplomatic position?  Probably.  

That is how Samantha Power sounds to people who are knowledgeable about Israeli history and society.  In the 2002 interview in which she advocated a U.S. military imposition on Israel of a solution that the U.S. would deem fit to the Palestinian issues, she displays complete ignorance of the events at Camp David in 2000 and at Taba in 2001.  She also sounds certifiably insane.  This is not a woman who should be named the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations.  

And as far as today's column in the Washington Post by Max Fisher trying to somehow explain those comments away, well, we all can, and all should, watch the video ourselves and hear for ourselves what she said.