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SO MUCH FOR THAT, THEN

SO MUCH FOR THAT, THEN

The election of the strongly anti-militarist Jack Layton as the federal leader of Canada's New Democrats today basically puts to an end the Canadian left's recent dalliance in the unfamiliar territory of advocating rearming the Canadian Forces (in their case, because they felt it might grant some autonomy from U.S. foreign policy and strengthen the UN). Layton has never done much to hide his dislike for Canadian soldiers and everything they represent. Combined with the party's strongly anti-Israel leanings exhibited of late, it basically guarantees the party will fight tooth and nail against any foreign action that could possibly, somewhere, somehow, end up hurting a Muslim.