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Thursday December 1, 2016

December 1, 2016 by Graeme MacKay

Editorial Cartoon by Graeme MacKay, The Hamilton Spectator - Thursday December 1, 2016 The world according to Trump, and the peril ofÊisolationism We have yet to see the shape ofÊDonald Trump's foreign policy. But as we wait, so do nervous leaders across Europe, Latin America, Asia andÊAfrica. With his arrival in the Oval Office, American alliances and policies forged over decades may well be in play. Meanwhile, in Moscow,ÊPresidentÊVladimir PutinÊsmiles at the election outcome. Hmm. That would be worrisome enough if the U.S. role in geopolitics would start from scratch on Inauguration Day. It won't. PresidentÊBarack ObamaÊalready has reduced America's global involvement and influence. That backward lean is a key reason why Trump will inherit so many foreignÊpolicy predicaments. An America that on his watch slips further to the sidelines, an insular America that regards trouble on the other side of the world as someoneÊelse's problem, would risk eroding diplomatic partnerships and defense pacts. That would imperil American interests overseas and at home:ÊConflicts elsewhere often make themselves felt here. Witness theÊIslamic State-inspired attacks in San Bernardino, Calif., and Orlando, Fla. OrÊremember 9/11.Ê(Continued: Chicago Tribune Editorial)Êhttp://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/editorials/ct-trump-foreign-policy-obama-putin-russia-edit-20161110-story.html This cartoon was colourized from the same image published on September 13, 2001. https://mackaycartoons.net/2001/09/13/thursday-september-13-2001/ USA, maps, wall, isolationism, isolationist, terrorism, security, America, 9/11, Donald Trump

Editorial Cartoon by Graeme MacKay, The Hamilton Spectator – Thursday December 1, 2016

The world according to Trump, and the peril of isolationism

We have yet to see the shape of Donald Trump’s foreign policy. But as we wait, so do nervous leaders across Europe, Latin America, Asia and Africa. With his arrival in the Oval Office, American alliances and policies forged over decades may well be in play. Meanwhile, in Moscow, President Vladimir Putin smiles at the election outcome. Hmm.

That would be worrisome enough if the U.S. role in geopolitics would start from scratch on Inauguration Day. It won’t. President Barack Obama already has reduced America’s global involvement and influence. That backward lean is a key reason why Trump will inherit so many foreign policy predicaments.

An America that on his watch slips further to the sidelines, an insular America that regards trouble on the other side of the world as someone else’s problem, would risk eroding diplomatic partnerships and defense pacts. That would imperil American interests overseas and at home: Conflicts elsewhere often make themselves felt here. Witness the Islamic State-inspired attacks in San Bernardino, Calif., and Orlando, Fla. Or remember 9/11. (Continued: Chicago Tribune Editorial)

This cartoon was colourized from the same image published on September 13, 2001.

Marvellous Maps

 

Posted in: International, USA Tagged: 9-11, America, Donald Trump, isolationism, isolationist, maps, security, terrorism, USA, wall

Wednesday April 20, 2016

April 19, 2016 by Graeme MacKay
Editorial Cartoon by Graeme MacKay, The Hamilton Spectator - Wednesday April 20, 2016 Trump commends first responders to '7-Eleven' attacks Donald Trump made an awkward slip of the tongue at a rally in Buffalo, N.Y.,Êon Monday evening, referringÊto the Sept. 11, 2001, attacksÊas "7-Eleven."Ê "I was down there, and I watched our police and our firemen down on 7-Eleven, down at the World Trade Center [in New York City], right after it came down, and I saw the greatest people I have ever seen in action," said the businessman, a candidate for the Republican nomination for president. The 2001 attacks on Manhattan and the Pentagon are commonly referred to asÊ9/11.ÊThe convenience store chain 7-Eleven isÊknown for its Slurpee frozen drinks.Ê Trump was apparently oblivious to the fact he'dÊconflated the two. Ê He was speaking to thousands of supporters at a rally held ahead of the New York primaries on Tuesday. The video was shared widely onÊsocial media, including as a Vine with nearly fourÊmillion loops. (Source: CBC News)Êhttp://www.cbc.ca/news/trending/trump-seven-eleven-video-1.3542293 9-11, September 11, gaffe, Donald Trump, speech, 7-11, 7-Eleven, terrorism

Editorial Cartoon by Graeme MacKay, The Hamilton Spectator – Wednesday April 20, 2016

Trump commends first responders to ‘7-Eleven’ attacks

Donald Trump made an awkward slip of the tongue at a rally in Buffalo, N.Y., on Monday evening, referring to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks as “7-Eleven.”

Editorial Cartoon by Graeme MacKay, The Hamilton Spectator - Wednesday February 10, 2016 Poll: Trump, Sanders lead ahead of New Hampshire's vote Donald Trump continues to lead the Republican race in New Hampshire on the eve of the vote, the final CNN/WMUR tracking poll finds. On the Democratic side of the race, it remains Bernie Sanders' primary to lose, with the Vermont senator holding a 26-point lead over Hillary Clinton. The field of candidates vying for a second place finish behind him is finally beginning to separate, according to the survey. Trump holds 31%, down two points from the February 3-6 release, but within the poll's margin of sampling error. READ: The full CNN/WMUR tracking poll results Behind him, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio earned 17% support -- within the margin of sampling error of Texas Sen. Ted Cruz at 14%, but significantly ahead of the fourth and fifth place candidates in the poll, Ohio Gov. John Kasich at 10% and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush at 7%. Behind Bush, Carly Fiorina stands at 5%, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie at 4% and retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson at 3%. Aside from Trump, none of the Republican candidates moved more than 1 point in either direction compared with the previous CNN/WMUR tracking poll. About three-quarters of the interviews conducted for this poll were completed before the Republican candidates debated Saturday night, their final such match-up before Tuesday's election. Although the post-debate sample size is too small to produce a separate estimate of the vote, interviews conducted Sunday and Monday found no drop in support for Rubio, and actually showed a slimmer margin between Trump and Rubio. There has been little movement in the last two days in the other metrics tested in the survey, with about two-thirds still saying they expect to see Trump win on Tuesday (64%), and about a third saying they would never vote for Trump (32%). (Source: CNN) http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/08/politics/donald-trump-bernie-sa

Wednesday February 10, 2016

“I was down there, and I watched our police and our firemen down on 7-Eleven, down at the World Trade Center [in New York City], right after it came down, and I saw the greatest people I have ever seen in action,” said the businessman, a candidate for the Republican nomination for president.

The 2001 attacks on Manhattan and the Pentagon are commonly referred to as 9/11. The convenience store chain 7-Eleven is known for its Slurpee frozen drinks.

Trump was apparently oblivious to the fact he’d conflated the two.

He was speaking to thousands of supporters at a rally held ahead of the New York primaries on Tuesday.

The video was shared widely on social media, including as a Vine with nearly four million loops. (Source: CBC News)


 

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Posted in: USA Tagged: 7-11, 7-Eleven, 9-11, Donald Trump, gaffe, September 11, speech, terrorism

September 11, 2006

September 11, 2006 by Graeme MacKay

“In the five years since the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center when hijackers flew two planes into the twin towers, killing more than 2,700 people New York has made a stirring recovery. Lower Manhattan shows signs of economic renewal and is once again a trendy place to dine; real estate values citywide have soared; the stock market has strengthened; new construction is booming; the overall crime rate is down; ticket sales on Broadway have hit an all-time high; and tourists are flooding the city in record numbers.” The Los Angeles Times

Quite optimistic sounding, but the article actually pertains to how anxiety ridden New Yorkers are 5 years after the attack. The excerpt above stuck out when I read it since it goes against the daily mantra that things will never return to the nice and carefree days before September 11, 2001, and that in order to exist in this day and age we have to live in fear while always looking behind our backs.

Has 9/11 really changed the world as much as we’ve been led to believe? Are we cowering in our basements waiting for the next terrorist attack to occur? Have our liberties been curtailed that much by paraniod governments? Have our economies crumbled in the aftermath of September 11th? I suppose if we’re connected to anyone who was killed in the 9/11 attacks life did change for some. Those of the Islamic faith must feel the impact and inconvenience everytime they pass through airport security. While there were economic consequences which put airlines out of business and put a dent in travel immediately after 9/11 our day to day activities really didn’t change at all.

We still eat out at restaurants, fill our gas tanks with ridiculously priced fuel and we still do all the normal daily things we did 5 years and a day ago. The attack on America was a huge event and its memories will always remain with us for years to come. Are we feeling as fearful as critics are suggesting we are as something orchestrated by the Bush administration? I don’t think so.

There’s an excerpt of Michael Moore’s movie Bowling for Columbine (and you know how much I love Michael Moore) which I think is very nice observation. Its examination of America’s culture of fear as a root cause of gun violence also extends to the higher levels of office. America’s need to have something to be scared of has essentially been the bedrock of its strength since its earliest colonial days. Michael Moore gives an entertaining chronicle of things which have scared the bejezus out of Americans for the past 230 years.

I don’t think it’s just an American thing. Most countries need to fear something in order to keep itself together. Canada has feared the U.S. in the past and continues to do so today. Not too long ago, we were shaking alongside the U.S. and the so called “free world” waiting for the day we’d all be annihilated by Soviet nuclear weapons in the 1980’s. My 9/11 occured in the 5th grade when my music teacher decided to reveal the existence of nuclear weapons pointed at every city in North America. It was the early 1980’s, and that revelation alone freaked me out for years.

No doubt a lot of fifth graders became freaked out 5 years ago today. But like my own introduction to fear of nukes everyone from every generation enters the culture of fear sometime in their lives. 9/11, as horrible and surreal as the film footage and images freaks us all out is just another moment of collosal human tragedy and fear which is repeated over and over and over through the centuries. Something is bound to push the events of 9/11 from our collective memory. Maybe that’s what’s so worrisome.

Posted in: International, USA Tagged: 9-11, 9/11, commentary, September 11, USA, World Trade Center

Wednesday September 26, 2001

September 26, 2001 by Graeme MacKay

Editorial Cartoon by Graeme MacKay, The Hamilton Spectator – Wednesday September 26, 2001

Canada’s war is already over

If Canada applied to participate in joint military operations, it would be turned down — which is why John Manley’s belated promise of ground troops is less manly than it sounds. He knows full well they won’t be required. His generous offer is as laughable as me offering to play in the Wimbledon men’s final. The reality is that what’s left of Canada’s forces is too poorly equipped to share a battlefield with the Americans, the British, the Australians or any reasonably funded army. Even New Zealand, which isn’t exactly a famous military power, is in a position to make a more useful contribution through its SAS, the kind of elite special forces that will be especially prized in this most modern of wars. Canada’s equivalent, the secrecy-shrouded JTF2, have no international reputation except as an ill-disciplined rabble. Intelligence? CSIS is underfunded and politically irrelevant: When they report that 50 global terrorist groups are actively operating in Canada, the Prime Minister files it in the bottom drawer under his golf club bill-of-sale napkins and, if anyone brings it up, flatly denies its conclusions. Canada is the only G7 country whose government is involved in covert sabotage of its own intelligence gathering.

Yet, confronted with an obvious truth, we persist in hunting for ludicrous alternatives. Is it that Bush personally dislikes Chrétien? You can’t blame the guy. In his speeches, our Prime Minister has a half-dozen jokes about what a dummy Dubya is: “I explained to him that Alberta is in Canada,” etc. In person, he’s boorishly patronizing: Chrétien welcoming Bush to the Summit of the Americas in Quebec: “Bienvenue.” Bush: “Thank you, sir.” Chrétien: “That means welcome.” (Source: Mark Steyn, National Post) 

 

Posted in: Canada Tagged: 9-11, Afganistan, Art Eggleton, cabinet, Canada, Iraq, Jean Chretien, Lyle Vanclief, Paul Martin, Sheila Copps, terrorism, war, war on terror, war room

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