Durban II, here we come!

It's fascinating reading about the Liberals and NDP discuss their foreign policy plans for their coup. Too bad Embassy Magazine didn't interview the third part of the coalition -- the Bloc. You know, the ones with the veto.

We learn that the free trade agreement with Colombia "would be taken off the table" for -- get this -- human rights abuses. The three parties that salivate over Communist China -- and chide Stephen Harper for even mentioning human rights with that dictatorship -- would cancel free trade with a democracy in our own hemisphere that is battling against narco-terrorists and insurgents backed by Hugo Chavez.

Why am I not surprised?

My favourite, though, is the Liberal-NDP-Bloc ability to marry self-righteousness and irrelevance in new ways -- such as their focus on the Congo. Dear God, what Canadian interests do we have there, compared to America, Europe, Afghanistan, etc.? Nothing -- and that's the point. The Liberal-NDP-Bloc foreign policy isn't about doing anything -- for us, or for others. It's about patting ourselves on the back for being morally superior than anyone else.

One last point about their focus on banning certain munitions (such as landmines). As I mentioned in this review I wrote of a book written by Michael Byers, an NDP foreign affairs adviser and candidate in the last election, Canada did indeed sign the international landmines treaty -- and even took a leadership role in producing the treaty.

But then (under the Liberals, when Lloyd Axworthy himself was Foreign Minister), Canada put a proviso on its signature: Canada would allow other nations to use landmines to protect us.

So we signed the treaty, swearing off landmines. And we issued countless statements condemning the Americans for not signing it.

But since we were going to Afghanistan, we made sure those bloodthirsty yanks could lay the landmines for us.

They did the "unethical" work for us. We took care of the self-righteousness.

Welcome to the foreign affairs future under the coup.

I can hardly wait to hear their Israel Palestine policy. I'm guessing it'll start with a trip to the Durban II conference.

P.S. To be clear, our troops in Afghanistan do difficult and important work -- and pay a disproportionately heavy price in terms of casualties compared to even the U.S. They're heroes.

My point is that Liberal politicians publicly preened about being too dainty to use weapons that our allies must use for us. That's Liberal-NDP-Bloc foreign policy.

UPDATE: I forgot about this doozy: