Paging James Marshall

A Democratic Liberal may be the brand new occupant of the real Air Force One, but another, the Canadian Grit federal party leader Michael Ignatieff, reminds me of the past occupant in the fake one. With quotes such as "If you mess with me, I will mess with you until I'm done." towards current Tory Prime Minister Stephen Harper, in response to his Conservative "spite and spin" attack television advertisements, or "The prime minister of Canada has only one job, and that is to unite Canadians and never divide them, and that, Mr. Harper does not understand.", Ignatieff almost is a rhetorical spitting image of the fictional President James Marshall, played by actor Harrison Ford in 1997's Air Force One. Will Igor Korshunov in this case be Gilles Duceppe with Iggy telling him to "Get off my plane!", or will upon becoming Prime Minister state in a major international speech, "'The dead remember our indifference. The dead remember our silence.' I came here tonight to be congratulated. But today when I visited the Red Cross camps, overwhelmed by the flood of refugees fleeing from the horror of Kazakhstan, I realized I don't deserve to be congratulated. None of us do. Let's speak the truth. And the truth is, we acted too late. Only when our own national security was threatened did we act. General Ivan Radek's regime murdered over 200,000 men, women and children and we watched it on TV. We let it happen. People were being slaughtered for over a year and we issued economical sanctions and hid behind a rhetoric of diplomacy. How dare we? The dead remember. Real peace is not just the absence of conflict, it's the presence of justice. And tonight, I come to you with a pledge to change America's policy. Never again will I allow our political self-interests to deter us from doing what we know to be morally right. Atrocity and terror are not political weapons and to those who would use them: Your day is over. We will never negotiate. We will no longer tolerate and we will no longer be afraid. It's your turn to be afraid.", I just wonder.