Let's Have a War (Blame Canada Edition)

Pere Ubu, commenting @ Sadly, No!, has brought to our attention a bit of pop national psychology from a (need we say?) liberal, hippie, pussified wimp professor who teaches in Norway, fercissakes. This commie crank thinks the United States is a bad place. My Gawd, read this:

In fact, the U.S.A. is the least threatened nation on the planet. Its geographic, demographic, and economic size, and its location, give it far greater security than Russia, or Holland, or Hungary, or France, or Finland, or Iraq, or Iran. These nations are easily attacked from several sides, and in modern history have been thus attacked. These nations have reason to be fearful, but in fact are less fearful than is America. Certainly it is impossible for foreign forces to invade and occupy the U.S.A. even should the U.S. have the most minimal defenses.

He's ready to turn this country over to the atheistic Islamic hordes!! And he bases his analysis on the perfectly rational plans the War Dep't. had in the 1920s & '30s to defend This Great Nation of Ours™ from Mexico & Canada. Just examine the potential menace from Canada!! LAKES!!

In the mistakenly published 1935 testimony to Congress about the need for new air bases to attack Canada, a military expert explained that Canada has thousands of lakes, and each of these is a potential float-plane base. He asked the congressmen to imagine the fearful vision of the sky filled with bush-pilot float planes flying down from Canadian forests to bomb Boston and Baltimore.

Prof. Rudmin also compares War Plan Green, the plan for defending our economic interests (oil, surprise!) in Mexico by attacking Mexico, w/ Operation Iraqi LiberationFreedom. Talk about the paranoid style in American politics. It seems we'll never be rid of this militaristic crap. One really must wonder if most of those who left Europe for the "New World" were paranoid fascist bullies driven out by their neighbors, whose traits have been inbred into the nation's so-called character.