As a Canadian, recognizing that we are already a large part of U.S.foreign policy, U.S. culture, and U.S. financial constructs, the last thing Canada needs is a stronger liaison with the U.S. We are already pretty much a de facto fifty-first state although we pretend otherwise - our economies are fully linked as are our militaries. Canada supports NATO, supports Israel in some aspects more strongly than the U.S., and supports other U.S. imperial interests across the world from Haiti, Venezuela, Cuba, over to Saudi Arabia, Russia, and China and on. We do not need 1984 realized.
Sum
Andrew Bacevich has written an important work examining the U.S. empire. Unfortunately he has not fully escaped from his inculturated need for military control of - something - in this case Canada and Mexico. "After the Apocalypse" summarizes enough of U.S. history and current policies well enough to support his primary premise of deconstructing the "manufactured memory" in order to make progress domestically with less involvement in the world in its dominant military aspects.
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