The reactions of our prime minister in the aftermath of 9/11 are almost too painful to recall; most notoriously, making an implausible excuse to avoid visiting Ground Zero in New York, so that he could fly back to a Liberal Party fundraiser in Toronto. A year later, we are still hearing hallucinogenic remarks from both him and his foreign minister -- a man whose casually-revealed ignorance of history and current affairs is excruciating. In the shadow of everything we have not done, we now presume to give little lectures to the U.S. President on the moral advisability of acting against the threat from Iraq. What has become of Canada?