By William Markiewicz
"Public opinion" consists of practicing collective selective blindness. Almost everybody, all the media in the West, asks the seemingly legitimate question: why do youth born and raised in the West, adopt anti-Western attitudes, including readiness for bloody terrorist actions? How could public opinion and the media forget that not so long ago, during WW2, citizens of Japanese descent; born and raised in the West, were sent to internment camps? Treatment of those of Italian extraction was less extreme, and of Germans; even less, but the mistrust persisted. Yes, double loyalty may be a duty, but how to reconcile this duty with the fact of brutal and unprovoked aggression of their present country against their country of origin? The fight against terrorism is a poor excuse if terrorism is a reaction and not a cause of aggression. Those immigrants and children of immigrants are not here by choice; nobody would choose to live in an alien country. Sometimes it's enough to look in the mirror. Their arrival here started because of troubles in their homeland and they couldn't all be resolved in the West. With passing time and generations the problems may diminish but not if new provocations are coming. What business had Canada in Afghanistan other than to please the powerful neighbour? Times have changed and the barbarian practices used on the Japanese cannot be used now on the Muslims. The more simple solution would be to end the disastrous foreign policy, anybody who keeps both eyes open will know that.
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