Lorne Gunter, one of our best columnists, poops on the Liberals’ (and many others’, including academics and pundits who should know better) parade:

Libs believe the world waits for Canada’s Egypt stance
A daydream, courtesy of Liberal Foreign Affairs critic Bob Rae [a pretty smart fellow these days, good on Afstan, but still drinking some of that Kool-Aid]…
In a fireworks’ burst of elation, pro-democracy protestors erupt with joy. Canada has spoken. The crisis is averted. Ruefully, but non-violently, pro-Mubarak forces drop their shoulders and slink out of Tahrir square. What is there left for them to do? Canada has had its say. That settles everything. There is now no hope of preserving the regime. They know Canada’s intervention has settled the matter definitively.
Peace and democracy break out and everyone lives happily ever after.
Of course, all of the above is a mocking hallucination…
For 40 years, the Liberals have deluded themselves into believing that the world looks to Canada as its moral beacon because of the Liberals’ enlightened international policies. It was never so, but the Grits cling to this daydream even now…

Or as I put it elsewhere recently with reference to Jumpin’ Jack Layton and Afstan:

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As for “our experience in resolving conflicts”, can anyone name any serious international conflict in, say, the last twenty years that Canada has played a major role in sorting out? To my mind yet another example of many Canadians’ thoughtless, in fact ignorant, ego(t)ism. Blowing a horn that only we hear; check the index of non-Canadian books on international issues.