What's become of us?

No wonder much of the rest of the world regards Canada with oprobrium. What on earth has happened to the concept of courage in this 'north of the 49th' empire? How have we come to lose any sense of moral outrage? We should be so ashamed of ourselves. Witness some of the events of just the last little while. After the of expenditure of massive amountsht of money over a number of years, the knaves who brought down the Air India flight off the coast of Ireland, get a walk. Imagine the agonies of those families, but our wimpish judicial system says "sorry for the waste of time and money, but we can't get these sonsofbitches, it wouldn't be the Canadian way. A multi-million dollar scam artist is lured across the US border by a private eye -- good on him -- yet a Canadian justice department functionary expresses outrage, and protests such is not the Canadian way. More's the pity for us. Meanwhile, we lend some sort of tacit support to known terrorist groups, like the Tamil Tigers and the IRA without batting the proverbial. Oh, and we reduce the sentence of a convicted gang rapist so he won't have to go back to Sri Lanka, where he might be under threat by those same -- otherwise not to be criticized -- Tigers. How has this happened? I'd like to blame Pierre Trudeau, but even he recognized terrorists for what they were worth. This is a rant to be sure. But it is about time for Canadians to recognize that our gentle and soft route for everything from drugs to terror are costing us grievously on the international scene. What kind of a legacy are we leaving our kids? There, glad I got that off my chest.