In the Globalist, Uwe Bott writes (October 14):
Last night, I woke up bathed in sweat. Suddenly, it had dawned on me who really is behind this mess in Washington. Canada! As I lay awake, all pieces of the giant puzzle quickly fell into place.
Not only has our neighbor to the North long been jealous of us: we’re bigger, larger, stronger, richer. Canadians are also fundamentally annoyed by the swagger of America. It runs counter to all that Canadians stand for: modesty and tolerance.
Long-range thinkers, the Canadians came up with a plan during the days of the Nixon administration, the period when the United States had reached its previous height of unpopularity.
The Canadian plan was evil and ingenious at the same time. Incapable of outperforming our military or economy, they resolved that they would destroy the United States from within.
At the time, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) believed that the planting of a highly skilled, left-wing operator in the U.S. political system would do the trick.
Naturally, Canada’s then Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, hailing from the French-speaking(!) province of Quebec, had a more devious plan. How about growing a Canadian infiltrator with some U.S. roots from the ground up?
That person would be trained to create a right-wing movement in the U.S. so radical and monomaniacal that it would put the entire United States in jeopardy. Completely enfeebled, the American Republic would then be ripe for a Canadian coup d’état.
And so it was that, on a cold December night in 1970, just two days before Christmas Eve, agents of the CSIS, duly instructed by their prime minister, shuffled into a hospital in Calgary.
There, an American woman and her Cuban husband were expecting their son, Ted Cruz. In borrowing the little baby’s last name the Canadians called it “Operation Cruz Missile”.
