ISRAEL cont'd
January 3rd 2007 14:26
ISRAEL cont'd
I recently wrote that I could think of no better neighbour to have than the USA. The reasoning behind this thought was that the US protects us from enemies and God knows, we can use all the help we can get. Our Liberal government decimated our fighting forces to a point where, even as peacekeepers, we have to hitch rides with whatever army is going in to do the actual fighting. Canadians have grown so accustomed to this that they can't understand what we are trying to do in Afghanistan today.
Someone took me to task for being grateful to the Americans and suggested that I had my priorities mixed up because I failed to note how the Yanks were screwing us in the softwood lumber deal. Geez, is that ever small potatoes. We have won every fight brought to the courts and I have to give the Americans an A for tenacity in their appeals on the case. We won and left a billion dollars on the table. A shame, but the issue is settled, finally. Let's both get over it. There are bigger fish to fry.
Canada could take a page from the American self-protectionist book. An easy example is the Auto Pact which brought us fair, rather than free, trade. It has been dismantled and now the Japanese have an open hand in landing their cars here in free, rather than fair, trade. Case closed.
The Jean Chretien government committed our troops to Afghanistan on a peacemaking mission. It seems most Canadians didn't get the memo. They can't understand that in war, you end up with casualties. They would rather we wore the cute little blue berets and tried to talk the Taliban into respecting their women. Either that or cut and run.
As Peter Worthington writes, "When the Americans had (or thought they had) insurgents in Iraq, mostly confined in Fallujah, a hotbed of enemy activity, rather than obliterate it (as they would have done in WWII) they gave a week's warning for civilians to depart before they attacked. When the assault eventually went in, the bad guys were mostly gone -- dispersed to other areas to continue their slaughter of the innocent." War cannot be waged peacefully. We have not had a war fought on our soil since the War of 1812 and in the case of the US, since their Civil War. We are truly blessed.
The US has never attacked anyone. They have responded to being attacked. Mr. Worthington goes on to say, "Today, humane considerations are paramount. The symbol of peaceful protest is Mahatma Gandhi, the creator of passive resistance that anti-military activists like to cite as a way to thwart authority. Often overlooked, is that Gandhi's formula worked against the British. If he and his followers had lain down in front of Cossacks, the Wehrmacht or the Golden Horde of Genghis Khan, Gandhi would have become an asterisk of history rather than an icon." How true this is. The USA is not Britain, but it is damn close. Where the British put up with a lot of nonsense, the US will not.
Israel hasn't even gotten its kidnapped soldiers back from Hamas and Hezbollah, which provoked Israeli retaliation. American, British, Canadian and NATO soldiers are even more restrained. Mr. Mansur writes, "Those who endlessly fault Bush for the shape of the world visible since 9/11, will one day cry a river if he and his successors fail to save civilization from its present-day enemies." Think about that. He goes on to finish with, "Michael Novak, a Catholic theologian and philosopher, named Bush "the bravest president" for staying firm in confronting the contemporary barbarians, despite the venom of his peers. In the dark winter nights, some of us will have prayers for Bush, knowing the difference between what he represents and those who would prey upon civilization."
The Dems/Libs just won't get this. I, for one, am thankful for a president like Bush. And I am damn thankful he's there to protect me.
I recently wrote that I could think of no better neighbour to have than the USA. The reasoning behind this thought was that the US protects us from enemies and God knows, we can use all the help we can get. Our Liberal government decimated our fighting forces to a point where, even as peacekeepers, we have to hitch rides with whatever army is going in to do the actual fighting. Canadians have grown so accustomed to this that they can't understand what we are trying to do in Afghanistan today.
Someone took me to task for being grateful to the Americans and suggested that I had my priorities mixed up because I failed to note how the Yanks were screwing us in the softwood lumber deal. Geez, is that ever small potatoes. We have won every fight brought to the courts and I have to give the Americans an A for tenacity in their appeals on the case. We won and left a billion dollars on the table. A shame, but the issue is settled, finally. Let's both get over it. There are bigger fish to fry.
The Jean Chretien government committed our troops to Afghanistan on a peacemaking mission. It seems most Canadians didn't get the memo. They can't understand that in war, you end up with casualties. They would rather we wore the cute little blue berets and tried to talk the Taliban into respecting their women. Either that or cut and run.
As Peter Worthington writes, "When the Americans had (or thought they had) insurgents in Iraq, mostly confined in Fallujah, a hotbed of enemy activity, rather than obliterate it (as they would have done in WWII) they gave a week's warning for civilians to depart before they attacked. When the assault eventually went in, the bad guys were mostly gone -- dispersed to other areas to continue their slaughter of the innocent." War cannot be waged peacefully. We have not had a war fought on our soil since the War of 1812 and in the case of the US, since their Civil War. We are truly blessed.
Israel hasn't even gotten its kidnapped soldiers back from Hamas and Hezbollah, which provoked Israeli retaliation. American, British, Canadian and NATO soldiers are even more restrained. Mr. Mansur writes, "Those who endlessly fault Bush for the shape of the world visible since 9/11, will one day cry a river if he and his successors fail to save civilization from its present-day enemies." Think about that. He goes on to finish with, "Michael Novak, a Catholic theologian and philosopher, named Bush "the bravest president" for staying firm in confronting the contemporary barbarians, despite the venom of his peers. In the dark winter nights, some of us will have prayers for Bush, knowing the difference between what he represents and those who would prey upon civilization."
The Dems/Libs just won't get this. I, for one, am thankful for a president like Bush. And I am damn thankful he's there to protect me.
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