dear condi

Boy howdy! Lloyd Axworthy, former Canadian foreign minister and man-about-town, has written a fiery open letter to U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, on the subject of Canada's refusal to participate in missile defence. An excerpt:

"I know it seems improbable to your divinely guided master in the White House that mere mortals might disagree with participating in a missile-defence system that has failed in its last three tests, even though the tests themselves were carefully rigged to show results. ... If we're going to spend money ... it will be on day-care and health programs, and even on more foreign aid and improved defence."

Read the whole thing here.