Curly, Obama, and Moe had a wee conflab at the White House today. They renewed their commitment to the war on drugs and free trade.
No, not the free trade in drugs, but free trade, as in General Electric is free to trade in your 35 dollar an hour job in the US for a three dollar an hour job in Monterrey.
Steve "Moe" Harper was mighty chuffed on the occasion of his second visit to the White House, as was the Canadian media. I guess it would hurt their feelings to point out that the CEO of General Electric has been there sixteen times.
"Steven goes to Washington" is today's big news story in Canada. You won't even find the story on CNN's US home page. The Mexican media mention in passing that Curly Calderon was in Washington today, but they generally don't mention Harper.
Think that's called "small-pond syndrome".
The small-pond guys inevitably get real excited by a visit to the White House. Nobody is a bigger fish in a smaller pond than Steven Harper.
So, the news was about nothing, other than the renewed commitment to the war on drugs. Mexico is taking a page out of Columbia's war-on-drugs handbook, and both Canada and the US now have free-trade agreements with Columbia, so they should be able to trade drug-war expertise freely among the four nations.
Harper made the point in his post-handshake press conference that the war on drugs hurts all North Americans and that we're in this fight together.
I don't know what Steve's been smoking, but even former hard line anti-drug guys have come around to the view that the war on drugs is hurting far more people a lot more than the actual drugs themselves.
But the three stooges agreed that the war needs more funding, more high-tech gizmos, bigger jails and tougher laws to bring it to a successful conclusion.
Good luck with that!
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