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2007-06-06 Great White North

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Posted by Mike 2007-06-06 09:05|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Canadians may not be in Iraq, but we're close, just on the other side of Iran, in Afghanistan. We're dying, just like the tender faced Yanks that appear every night at the end of the news on PBS. And we're doing the hard work there - it's not just "peacekeeping," the shadow-play that mocks and imitates the greatness we once displayed. Fifty-four Canadian soldiers have died in that battle.

And god bless and receive every one of them.

We're re-building the great army that Jean Chrétien gutted. Some day soon we might even show up with the geopolitical relevance we had 50 years ago.

Very true: The Canadians punched WAY above their weight, and I like to think there was a friendly competition between the Canadian and American armies to top each other that benefitted the entire Free World.

But there's a lot of cowardice to live down. The rest of the world still calls "the cut and run crowd." The phrase, "Canada's Cut and Run Crowd" appeared in the Wall Street Journal on May 14th. Were they wrong?

Before you answer, let's be clear. A popular joke says the Wall Street Journal is read by the people who run the world. All the other newspapers are read by people who don't. So that's the evaluation of the people who actually count. Canada? We cut and run.

Are you happy with that?

I never was, and I'm not Canadian.

"Peace" is what happens after war. The 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s were peaceful because we won World War II. If we don't win this war for the greater Middle East, our grandchildren will live under the threat of terror. And we'll be the people who decided to sit out the great battle between good and evil, so we could watch Canadian Idol, shop online and go to our kids' soccer practice. Make no mistake; we'll have ceded the future to tyranny.

Let's hope someone's listening up there...

Posted by ptah">ptah 2007-06-06 11:34|| http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org]">[http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org] 2007-06-06 11:34|| Front Page Top

#2 God help us but I believe Canadians are showing more bottle than the Brits now. England: Be ashamed.

Posted by Excalibur 2007-06-06 15:36|| 2007-06-06 15:36|| Front Page Top

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