Posted on 15/05/08
Behind Dallaire's rhetoric
Beneath Liberal Senator Roméo Dallaire's hyperbole about Canada's supposed moral equivalence with terrorists is an important principle: Democracies need to hold themselves to a higher standard than that of the terrorists who oppose them. The case Mr. Dallaire raised, that of Omar Khadr, a Canadian jailed in the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is an apt example. It would be unfortunate if the retired general's ludicrous parallel between the West and al-Qaeda prompted Canadians to believe that the underlying issue has been blown out of all proportion.
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