Prime Minister Mark Carney’s much criticized ambiguity about the role of international law regarding U.S. and Israeli attacks on Iran is more than an excusable stumble by an inexperienced politician operating in a challenging environment.
Carney is building a foreign policy “doctrine” that increasingly warrants a closer look.
Last October, Carney lavished praise on U.S. President Donald Trump for supposedly “disabling Iran as a force of terror” with U.S. strikes months earlier. While the prime minister has softened — but not withdrawn — his support for the current military campaign that began in spite of progress on peace talks, he has not explained why he has long disagreed with intelligence assessments that Iran was not pursuing a nuclear weapon.
Nor has Carney or his ministers refused to rule out some form of participation in the conflict that is rapidly extending to other Persian Gulf states.
An opportunity to provide clarity on such issues was rebuffed when Carney skipped an emergency debate in Parliament on the growing crisis. Meanwhile, the war continues to unleash enormous human suffering and chaos.
Lol. I can totally understand how you would like someone to stop responding when your points keep getting cooked as you work to establish an unfalsifiable position that rejects the evidence in front of your nose.
As for understanding things in simplistic terms, you provided a great example in your other comment.
yeah it’s wild how a significant chunk of this technocrat’s supporters keep making claims that aren’t falsifiable. There’s literally nothing that people can point to that will change their mind.
Especially considering there are specific standards Carney set in his actual speech that can be used to assess his performance. It’s as though some people have so much blind faith that there’s an inability to even take what he said at face value anymore once theres a contradiction between what he said and what he did.
come to think of it, this is really similar to Trump support - the difference being when Trump contradicts himself he’s ‘trolling’ or ‘joking’, and with Carney it’s ‘the master strategist at work, just wait and see’ …
There’s some definite cult of personality stuff going on.
Literally just try to wrap your head around the concept that Carney can’t force all middle powers to suddenly band together.