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The Nora Saga

31 Monday Jul 2017

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Our little Nora di Capena has been sick, what she suffers from is not clear at all, it baffles the Veterinarians at the AVC of UPEI. So far we have seen 8 vets, each a specialist, she has spent a total of 5 days at the AVC going through tests of all sorts. We do know that she is in good health generally speaking and for an 8 yr old Wire hair dachshund she is doing very well.

All this started one month ago on a Sunday around 3:30 in the afternoon, she had symptoms that led us to believe she had had a stroke, she certainly behaved strangely and appeared dazed. On a weekend like this your only option is the emergency service of the Veterinary College at University of PEI. There is a $130 dollar surcharge for the service but it is excellent service. She stayed over night and went through a lot of tests.

All was clear and in fact the next day was her old self, we and the Vets looking at her believed she had been poisoned, some kind of toxin. A few weeks went by and nothing, then this weekend on Saturday at 3pm she had another episode, but not as severe this time nonetheless we returned to the AVC at UPEI. Again they kept her over night on observation and she did have one other small episode, Today, Monday she went through more tests for various disease, we are trying to understand what it could be. All tests come back negative, nothing abnormal.

We had 2 long debriefings with the vets about 5 of them looked and prodded Nora. They really do not know what is wrong with her. She is 8 and a half yrs old, she is considered an older dog but not old for a Dachshund. Our previous two lived to be 18 yrs old.

So she is back at home, we are to watch her and if there is an episode document it and if it persists to call the AVC where they have her complete file. This is not a cheap process and it is all in all worrisome. As for Mr Nicky well he was lost today because he did not understand where was Nora, he really does not like is routine upset by anything.

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What a weekend

30 Sunday Jul 2017

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We were too busy socially this weekend, it is a bit like saying to much champagne, how can that be?  Well beside the Pride Week activities which were numerous and diverse in PEI. We also were invited to attend what I consider to be the Summer Party in New Glasgow on the Clyde River an absolutely beautiful area of our Island.

The food was wonderful a wide variety of hors d’oeuvres hot and cold, the oyster bar with Tyler Gallant of the company of the same name providing freshly shucked oysters, these where Raspberry points. The DJ was very good, lots of nice drinks all around the pool and hot tub area overlooking the river. Just a great party with friends and because it’s the 150 of Canada we all wore White and Red the National colours.

Today Sunday we went to the Theatre of the Confederation Centre to listen to the National Youth Orchestra who is travelling around Canada this year. It is a very good orchestra composed of young performers who have distinguished themselves by winning prizes at music competitions, all are very talented. The program had pieces by Ravel, Mussorgsky, Prokofiev and the concerto for cello no.1 by Shostakovich which he composed in 1959 for Rostropovich. The musician playing this concerto was Bryan Chen of Ottawa. We first saw him when he was 13 years old he is now 19, brilliant musician, so talented. This concerto by Shostakovich is very difficult to play and is typical of Soviet era music

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Summer guests are arriving this week, so we will have more to do.

The week

30 Sunday Jul 2017

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Well this week has bene busy like all weeks so far this Summer, always something going on. I had the great pleasure of being published for the third time in the Guardian our local newspaper in PEI. The issue is a municipal one of concern to the citizens on the matter of lack of By-Law enforcement by City Hall.

I worked some more on the organization of the Benefit Gala for the PEI Symphonic Orchestra in September. We have a list of 59 gifts/donation to our Auction, the gifts auctioned off are very nice and am sure people will be happy. Other members of the committee have worked on the entertainment, we have some big names who accepted to donate their talent and time for our event.

The Art Gallery has been busy,  we have a lot of tourists from Quebec again this year, this means tours in French. I like to think they are passing through going to take the ferry to the Iles de la Madeleine but in most cases no, they come here to visit and see, many for the first time.

The weather has been wonderfully sunny and next week more sun.

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Pride Flag at the PEI Legislative Building

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Pride Parade passing in front of the Confederation Centre of the Arts.

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Staff from the Canadian Broadcasting Corp in PEI marching.

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First Nation Mi’kMaq at the Pride Parade.

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My Member of Parliament Sean Casey, M.P.

Every political party was present, Liberal, NDP, Green, the one exception the Conservatives who prefer to identify with Trump, sad for them, they do not support the LGBTQ community at all, maybe that is why they are in opposition in the House.

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The Premier of PEI, the Hon. Wade MacLauchlan and spouse, both wearing psychedelic shirts, so 1970’s.

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The Royal Canadian Navy, HMCS Charlottetown

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Many Churches were also present in the Parade.

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The after parade party in Rochford Square in Charlottetown, Will said to me, did you notice how many parents and grandparents are here with their kids and grandkids. Rainbow flags painted on their faces and everyone having a lot of fun. It really was a community event for everyone.

 

 

 

 

 

 

PRIDE in PEI

27 Thursday Jul 2017

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This week is PRIDE in PEI and in our little Province every one is involved. By this I mean the City Councils, the Mayor, the Royal Canadian Navy, people in general. All flying the rainbow flag and participating in various activities, from coffee get together, to films, to music and of course the parade. The cities have painted the intersections in Rainbow colours. A couple from Summerside will paint your drive way in Rainbow colours and they have been quite busy. Many shops and businesses have Rainbow Flags, the reason for all this is the fact that we are a small province and everyone knows everybody so you really cannot not participate. Yes we have our bigots, one idiot businessman in Summerside who owns a Fish and Chips shop thought a good idea of speaking against Price Week, he claimed to be Born Again the problem was that he had a lot of hate in what he was saying, he got himself in a lot of trouble with the Chamber of Commerce and just about everyone else.

PEI the happy Island on this Pride Week.

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A great recipe

25 Tuesday Jul 2017

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I tried this at home tonight. The Halibut cost me $6.50 for 2 very nice pieces. Very good.

Garlic Parmesan Baked Halibut
Prep time: 5 mins
Cook time: 8 mins
Total time: 13 mins
Serves: 4
Ingredients
  • Topping:
  • ¼ cup butter, softened
  • ¼ cup mayonnaise
  • ½ cup freshly grated Parmesan cheese
  • 2 Tbsp green onion, finely chopped
  • 4-6 cloves garlic, crushed
  • Dash of Tabasco
  • .
  • Salt and pepper, to taste
  • ½ lemon, juiced
  • 4 halibut filets (~1″ thick)
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 450F. Season halibut with salt, pepper and a squeeze of lemon juice. Place filets in a baking dish. Bake for 6 minutes.
  2. Mix all topping ingredients together. Remove halibut from oven and spread Parmesan mixture over top and sides of fish. Turn oven to broil and cook for 2-3 minutes, until the tops are lightly browned. Serve immediately
  3. I made a green salad instead of rice and veggie.

 

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Beautiful work restoration

24 Monday Jul 2017

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I find this type of work in restoration fascinating, it requires a lot of patience and expertise. It brings back to life old works of art.

This is taken from the Bowes Museum Blog. Enjoy!

 

During the last few months a painting has undergone extensive conservation in the Conservation Studio. The painting of interest is a Spanish portrait from the beginning of the 17th century. It is a portrait of Fray José Sigüenza, a Friar and Prior of the Order of Jerome, Librarian at El Escorial, historian and counsellor to […]

via Exposing of a Worn Painted Surface — The Bowes Museum’s Blog

Some surprises on PEI

23 Sunday Jul 2017

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This morning we decided to go to Point Prim Lighthouse built in 1845, it is one of my favourite spot on the Island it also has a seasonal restaurant called the Chowder house.

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This 2017 photo shows the Lighthouse with the re-built guardian’s house which had been torn down when all lighthouses on the island were automated some decades ago. This recreated guardian’s house is now a very tasteful gift shop focused on the Prim Point Light House. The Federal government also rebuilt, re-claimed about 30 feet off the cliff with a huge pile of rocks, soil erosion is a problem. The rocks are granite not the red sandstone of the Island which melts like sugar in Sea water.

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We had lunch at the Chowder house which is just down the road, the sea was choppy today and the wind from the Sea was fresh it was so nice. Depending where you look the view looking back is Charlottetown in the far distance, Rocky Point the  entrance to the harbour and straight ahead is Nova Scotia across the Strait.

On the way back we decided to stop in Orwell which is a very small place. Some years ago the Provincial government decided to turn the old village into a museum, it is surrounded by forest and next to the Estate of Sir Andrew MacPhail.

I knew nothing of Sir Andrew, except that one year ago in the Art Gallery where I work as a guide, I noticed his bronze bust, made by a famous Canadian sculptor 100 years ago.

The house of Sir Andrew is down a narrow road made for carriages in a thick birch and Red Oak forest, you turn off at the great stone gate to his home. The house is beautiful all wood panelled inside. Built in 1864 it is typical of the Island homes of the time and is quite large, surrounded by the original farm, which is now the MacPhail Woods Forestry Project. The area is very peaceful and quiet, very few tourists come here, it is secluded and not on the main tourist track, which is a good thing, since the farm is full of rare flowers, plants and the last stand of the original Acadian forest.

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Macphail was born in 1864 in Orwell, PEI, on the family’s newly purchased 140-acre farm. His father was William Macphail, a schoolmaster; his mother was Catherine Moore Smith formerly of Newton, P.E.I. The parents of Sir Andrew belonged to the Church of Scotland and were strict protestants.

Macphail was educated at Prince of Wales College in Charlottetown, and then at McGill University in Montreal, where he received his medical degree in 1891. “During his studies at McGill Macphail wrote reviews and articles for various newspapers, including the Montreal Gazette and the Chicago Times, and saved enough money to finance a trip around the world.” He resumed his studies in England, where he became “a member of the Royal College of Surgeons and a licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians. He returned to Canada in 1892.”

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A side view of the house with the bell in the garden which was commissioned by Sir Andrew to commemorate the death of his grand-father, father and eldest brother. The bell has a crack in it and could not be used. Sir Andrew had a second bell created and it is installed in the Valleyfield Church in Montague, PEI.

He married Georgina Burland of Montreal in 1893, she died in 1902, a tragedy in the life of Sir Andrew. They had two children, Jeffrey and Dorothy. He and his family lived on PEI in the Summer months at this point. He did not like the labour of farming but was very interested in the subject for study and advancement of techniques.

From 1893 until 1905 Macphail practised medicine and taught at the University of Bishop’s College. At Bishop’s, he was professor of the diseases of children. Beginning in 1895 he also served as a consulting pathologist at the Montreal Western and Verdun hospitals.

In 1903 he became editor of the Montreal Medical Journal; “when it merged with another medical periodical eight years later to establish the Canadian Medical Association Journal, Macphail was made editor of the new monthly.”He was editor of the Journal until the outbreak of World War I.

He was appointed McGill’s first Professor of the History of Medicine in 1907, and held that position until 1937.

Macphail enlisted in the Canadian Army in 1914 at the age of 50, and served at the front with a field ambulance corps for 20 months. Assigned to the Sixth Field Ambulance, he served with distinction at a number of battles including Vimy Ridge.

He wrote and published a lot of books on various topics of interest to him.

Macphail was knighted for his literary and military work in January 1918.

He was awarded an honorary doctorate from McGill. He received the Quebec government prize for literature in 1928.

Macphail was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1910. In 1930, the Society awarded him its Lorne Pierce Medal.

He was friends with Rudyard Kipling who visited him and with whom he had many conversations on Farming and agriculture both shared similar views. On this topic he is the man who introduced modern potato farming to PEI, it was an obvious success. He was also the person who encouraged Colonel John McRae, the author of the famous poem In Flanders Field to claim authorship and not leave it anonymous. He was friends with the great Internationally known Canadian Author Lucy Maud Montgomery of PEI, who visited him often at the house.

Amongst his many talent Sir Andrew was an author and essayist, he published a lot.

Macphail’s book The Master’s Wife was published posthumously, in 1939. It is the book to which Macphail devoted most care, and which he considered his best. Part biography of himself and his family (“The Master” was his father), part history of their community, Orwell, the book has been called “an excellent description of 19th century life on P.E.I., a very important social history of P.E.I.’s past.” I bought the book at the house and am looking forward to reading it to see how similar or different it is from Lucy Maud Montgomery’s 8 books on Anne of Green Gables, which are also a social commentary though fictional of life on PEI. 

The house itself is very interesting and shows how Sir Andrew was an eccentric man. In the morning he would eat a bowl of porridge in bed with a dram of single malt Scotch. His favourite grandchild was allowed and only her, to sit on his bed while he ate. He loved solitude but he also loved dinner parties and invited a lot of people to his home. However no one could stay the night at the house, so he had a guest house built for his guests to sleep separated by a barrier of trees, for privacy.  So his children Dorothy and Jefferey did not bother him during the day, he built them large play houses in the garden. They are made of wood and are quite handsome.

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His daughter’s Dorothy playhouse, inside there is a simple table, a chair and and toys of the period.

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He would not install electricity, running water, indoor plumbing or any modern convenience. When Sir Andrew was a child 13 members of his family lived in it, and this does not include the servants who worked at the house, all this prior to the extensive extension being built. His daughter lived in the house until 1961 and then gave it to the Province to be a memorial to her father. It was only in 1992 that the government finally installed electricity and running water with modern washrooms for the staff looking after the estate. He refused modern conveniences because he profoundly disliked modernity and the rapid changed brought upon Canada after 1919. He simply could not see why life could not continue as always.

He so wanted to live on his Estate as the great man he had become, so a Post Office was set up just for himself, this was a very great privilege. It was located behind the house beyond a row of trees, again to preserve his cherished privacy. When the postmaster would receive mail often 3 times a day or a package he would run a white flag up the pole to signal to Sir Andrew that mail had arrived, who then would send a boy to fetch it.

The Estate is quite large and would require several hours to explore. It is well worth it and beautiful. In one area where there were lots of flowering bushes, you could hear the bees buzzing and see them rubbing themselves with pollen.

The house today serves lunch and tea in the great glass veranda, everything is made on the premises and uses local ingredients and produce from the garden of the Estate.

I really enjoyed this visit and discovery and hope to return for lunch. There are lots of interesting things to see and do on the Island, outside of the well beaten path and again just 20 minutes from home.

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Sir Andrew MacPhail (1864-1938) painting by Alphonse Jongers, c.1924

So this week

21 Friday Jul 2017

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As you probably heard Canada is getting a new Governor General in September.

So this week the retiring Governor General was in London to tender his official resignation from the Office to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. At the same time H.E. the Right Honourable David Johnston presented Canada’s gift to our Sovereign on the occasion of Canada’s 150th Anniversary of Confederation (1867-2017).

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The Sapphire Jubilee Snowflake Brooch was presented to Her Majesty The Queen on July 19, 2017, at Canada House, in London, England. The brooch celebrates the Queen’s Sapphire Jubilee, marking 65 years as Canada’s Sovereign. No Sovereign has ever celebrated a Sapphire Jubilee.

The brooch is adorned with 48 Canadian sapphires of various colours and sizes. The sapphires were discovered by Innuit brothers Seemeega and Nowdluk Aqpik in 2002, on Baffin Island. It is currently the only known sapphire deposit in Canada. The design takes inspiration from the Canadian Arctic and, more specifically, from the hamlet of Kimmirut, on Baffin Island, where the sapphires were discovered. The brooch’s centre is elevated and set with diamonds to represent the rocky hill located across the water from Kimmirut. The shape of the brooch is also emblematic, celebrating the snowy landscape of the Canadian Arctic and the unique nature of the snowflake.

Presented in a momentous year that marks both The Queen’s Sapphire Jubilee and Canada’s 150thanniversary of Confederation, this brooch celebrates the historic and profound relationship between Her Majesty and Canada. It serves as a companion to the maple leaf brooch given to Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother by her husband King George VI, to mark their visit to Canada in 1939; it was inherited by Her Majesty in 2002.

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Here is the Governor General, H.E. the Right Honourable David Johnston presenting the brooch to Her Majesty, with Prince Philip looking on at Canada House on Trafalgar Square in London.

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Earlier in the day at Buckingham Palace.

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From the rooftop of Canada House on Trafalgar Square, with Saint-Martin in the Fields in the background.

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Canada House is the Embassy of Canada or has we call it our High Commission in London.

Point de Vue

18 Tuesday Jul 2017

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What do we read, well years ago, I discovered this magazine called Point de Vue, it was created in March 1945 at the end of the second world war in Paris by Officers of the Free French Forces under General De Gaulle who would later become the President of France.

It was initially a magazine about professional photography by the great names of photography and was quite popular in photographic circles, winning recognition for the quality of its photo-journalism.

Many of the founding circle of this magazine were senior French Army Officers, turned politicians, author, film makers and member of the French intelligentsia. Many were married to well known artists. The initial idea of Point de Vue was to present after the war years the renewal of France under a new elite promoting Republican ideals from a centre to right of centre political point of view. www.pointdevue.fr

In such circles, if you look at the names of the individuals, you see quite a few people belonging to the old French Aristocracy, the Orleans and Bourbon families are well represented, adding to that group the Bonaparte Family and other Royals. A very strange mix of old and new regime. Which often leads me to believe that France is not really a Republic because of its still close association in various Official circles with the Families of the Ancien Regime, an example the Académie Française. The French Revolution abolished in 1791 all rights and privileges of the Aristocracy in France but in 1852 under Emperor Napoleon III, all those rights were re-established and are part today of the French Legal System, in France your title means something.

In 1952 Point de Vue presented a special edition dedicated to the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II which sold at 900,000 copies. The editors then decide to focus on the Crown Heads of Europe and present photos of social events dedicated to them. They find a new public who is fascinated by such reporting and articles on the lives of European Royals. In a way it is an early version of People’s magazine, but it is exclusively dedicated to the Aristocracy and the Gotha, a French word meaning people who belong to the financial and political elite in society.  In 2016 monthly the magazine sold 200,000 copies, it is only published in French.

Today Point de Vue is all about what is considered the best in Art, fashion, interior decoration, members of the Aristocracy in Europe and their lives and social events.  The editor is Adélaide, Duchesse de Clermont-Tonnerre who is the grand-daughter of the Princess of Orleans and sister to the Comte de Paris (Heir to the Throne of France).  It is a magazine read by many including people in the Diplomatic Service, it is useful gossip to know, since you might bump into someone with a name at a function. It is one of those magazine you look through and read quickly, the photos are still wonderful. If you are bored you can play the game of name that Royal or what medal or order are they wearing.  Who is married to whom and what were the circumstances of the divorce, was it scandalous? You will also notice in the articles that the jobs occupied by Royals who are not currently at the head of their country is usually in Investment Banking, for women they study in general Arts fields waiting to marry of course another Royal. Everyone is loving, happy, surrounded by a wonderful family, rich in history and tradition and dressed in great style, looking dignified. The only ones who do not exactly fit that picture are the Grimaldi Royal Family of Monaco, scandal is their middle name. Spain came a close second, until Cristina the sister of King Felipe of Spain was booted out of the family when her ex-soccer player husband went to jail for embezzlement.

A recent edition had a spread on the wedding of the Prince of Hanover and another one on Prince Jean-Christophe Napoleon Bonaparte who is the great-great nephew of Napoleon I. He is also Head of the Bonaparte Family. In recent years articles and photos have appeared on the German Imperial House, the Hohenzollern, who are still very much part of the social scene in Germany. Other notables the Austrian Imperial House, the Hapsburg, Spain, Belgium, Norway, Denmark and Sweden often appear in Point de Vue. Monaco is a favourite and other less known Royals like Greeks, Romanian, Serbian or Italian Houses are mentioned often because they are cousins with the British Royals or Spanish Royals. The articles are all written to give the reader the impression that despite the fact many European countries are now Republics since 1945, many would prefer to return to a Monarchic system, that is fanciful thinking by the editor and her team.

Point de Vue is the sort of magazine you read when you want to forget the grubbiness of life and dream of a different world.

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http://www.pointdevue.fr

Of foreign adventurism

17 Monday Jul 2017

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On Sunday I was reading an article on Iraq in the New York Times, it mentioned that after $1 trillion dollars spent and 4500 dead US soldiers, Iraq which was suppose to be a beacon of modern democratic American style governance had slipped squarely into Iran’s orbit out of reach of any US governmental influence. A very sad situation for US Foreign policy and illustrates again poor analysis of the history and development of this region of the world over centuries. Henri Kissinger wrote an excellent book on China and how on the whole Vietnam policy in the 1960’s the US advisors around the President had it all wrong all along, which explains that disaster. Unable to learn from France’s mistakes and their own war 1946-1954.

The article brought back for me a flood of memories going back to the first Gulf War in 1990-91 and the invasion of Kuwait by Iraq. Of conversation I had in Cairo with colleagues and their perception of what would happen. Again the USA had given the wrong signal to their ally President Saddam Hussein of Iraq, he thought it was ok to invade with impunity only to find out too late that the US Ambassador had not been clear at all. Suddenly an ally like Saddam against Iran becomes an enemy because Kuwait is more important because of Saudi Arabia. I remember our American colleagues at the US Embassy in Cairo telling us they were sure that once the Iraqis were defeated they would rise against Saddam and overthrow him and Kuwait in turn could be modernized and Kuwaitis would become happy consumers, eat Mcdonald’s burgers and shop in malls. How simplistic and wrong all along, the uprising in Iraq was crushed in the South of the Country with its Shia majority. Kuwait remains to this day a backwater.

There was no sympathy in the region for Saddam who was a thug but also importantly a factor of stability in the region and a barrier to the ambitions of Iran which meant a great deal then to the USA who was unable to repair for multiple reasons the broken relationship with Iran since 1979. Saudi Arabia which is governed by what were a bunch of desert robbers, the Al-Saud Clan turned Royal Family, does not inspire in the region any love but with their money can finance and help many, who look to them for help. The Al-Saud have also proclaimed themselves the Guardian of the Holy Sites in Mecca and uphold the Sunni majority interpretation of Islam. Think of it as Christians divided between Lutheran VS Catholics. Iran an ancient country holds the Shia interpretation of Islam. The Iranian are also non-Arabs so ethnically, they are not part of the Arab World. Their ancient civilization is part of the Indo-Aryan world.

Iran is feared by many like the Saudis because in past centuries it dominated completely the whole region, from an artistic and cultural point of view and a military one also.  Just one example of their domination is the introduction of Persian numerals replacing Arab numerals which we use to this day.

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It seems the US Government, the CIA, the State Department and the White House forgot that they were dealing with a complex world, were historical realities are very different from ours. The name of Paul Bremer comes back to mind, his total lack of understanding of the situation despite being the most senior American on the ground with vast powers, his arrogance and his fatal mistake of implementing a policy to destroy the Baath Party of Saddam Hussein with the backing of Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, both equally incompetent and negligent of their duty to protect US interests created what we know today as the Islamic State. In 48 hours, Bremer created a formidable enemy in Iraq by depriving  many in the middle-class of a lively hood and pushing them to the margin.

In dealing with my American counterpart, what I remember most is how they were often unable to see the other point of view, so sure they were of their truth as leader of the Free World, their authority unquestioned. The fatal flaw, which returns not only on this question of the Middle-East but on so many other questions. Today we see the same phenomenon with the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the Paris Accord, NAFTA, the world is moving ahead and the USA is left behind more and more irrelevant.

It should be remembered that other countries have also made similar mistakes, naive and poor political analysis, optimistic over simplification, broken promises and bad faith. Britain and France with their secret 1916 Sykes-Picot Agreement which spawn a century of resentment in the Middle-East.

The resulting order inherited by the Middle East of the day sees a variety of states whose borders were generally drawn with little regard for ethnic, tribal, religious or linguistic considerations.

Spain, Holland, Portugal, Belgium, made equally disastrous decisions in their Imperial expansion, it seems that everyone thinks the natives will be happy to be governed by us. The British thought they were on a Christian Missionary agenda to civilize the little people, the French spoke of a Civilizing mission to the world. All faded one by one like flowers in a garden while other nations took up the mantle of domination.

Iran, I believe in the end will prevail, because it has the will, but also the historical connection with that part of the world, an a deep understanding of the people. This is what is lacking on the American part.

I feel sorry for all those poor soldiers who lost their lives in Vietnam and now in Iraq and Afghanistan, for what? Canada did not participate in Vietnam nor in Iraq, we were in Afghanistan for 12 years and one has to wonder what we were doing there in the first place.

 

 

 

 

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