Jean Chretien is doing everything in his power to diplomatically and militarily reduce
Canada
to the derisive " few acres of snow" that the French philosopher Voltaire consigned us to in the
reign of one of Chretien's ancestral cousins: King Louis XV of France.
Our huge country is being made into the western version of Luxembourg by a leader with the
Liberal courage of MacKenzie King and the patriotic fervour of Pierre Trudeau, circa 1940.
Dear CBC Ombudsman:
Sacrificing Don Cherry to the neutralist fetish of CBC and its owner would be an insult to his true
constituency: ordinary common sense Canadians. However, such an act would make Mr. Cherry a
formidable icon politically, all the more so since the supposed opposition to supporting the
American attack on Saddam Hussein and fellow thugs is the proverbial mile wide and an inch
deep (convert to metric using the readily available PC- CBC translator, if you prefer the
expression in Continental terms).
If CBC can tolerate commentators who persist in seriously equating President Bush with Saddam
Hussein, genocidal murderer, then it can put up with one of our own standing up for his
convictions where our Prime Minister clearly shows he has none to maintain.
Unction, passivity, surrealism and above all, smugness: The Toronto Star's idealized Liberal Prime Minister- In other words, Herb Dhaliwal. Stephen Harper is oxygen in this suffocating Canadian room full of wasted Liberal breath.
Re: The usual fantasies about the U.S. as Leviathan War Criminal
When will the leftovers from the Trotskyite Brigade accept that the Great Satan shtick about the
Americans did not work as a subversive theme and remains monstrously untrue as it was in
1933,1953,1983 and now in 2003? The peacenik screed about the great power of the U. S. having
the potential for abuse is a sophomoric variant on a basic truism. The potential for genocidal
criminality has never materialized in America, unlike the cruel realities of Stalinist Russia and Nazi
Germany. There were real war criminals. In the minor league category of war criminal stands
Saddam Hussein- lately known to the peace hysterics as the enemy of their mortal enemy:
America.
Americanism against Islamism, Americanism against Utopian humanism: These intersect at the
level of anti-globalist.
Overworked phrase department: Paradigm shift
The revitalizing of our Canadian military can only come when, and if, the government of the day
takes the approach that military strength is an axiom of nationhood. This switch from our current
fetish of de-fanged neutralism is not unprecedented. Take the example of Tony Blair and his
populist rule as British Labour PM. He has departed in radical form from the pacifist orthodoxy of
conventional British Labour politics to a position that is principled, militaristic and worthy of past
eras when Britain was a formidable and assertive military power. Blair defied the Brahmins of his
own party to take a stand firmly founded in history and his own pragmatic assessment of what
needs to be done in winning the war against terrorism.
Canada and its politicians, present and future, can similarly move national policy past the
deadwood policies of inertia masked as peacekeeping and take this country into a new phase
where military strength is a healthy virtue and not a necessary pathology to be tolerated in small
measures. Patrolling our borders is more than enough reason to have a core of crack troops, air
force and particularly, naval forces. A militia or reserve element organized on the model of the
American National Guard would be a supplement to the regular forces, fully integrated in border
security and with plenty of inactive but trained personnel to call on in times of crisis.
The naval and coast guard element of this new arrangement would be especially welcome in the
coastal regions where fishing rights and fishing grounds are a matter of international dispute: The
Grand Banks of my home province for example. As an aside, it should not go unnoticed that our
opponent in the latest fishing dispute on the Grand Banks, Spain, has aligned unequivocally with
the Americans while Canada vacillates, quivers and finally slinks into its Euro-pacifistic shell on
the question of the Iraq invasion.
The courage to run a political campaign on clear-eyed policies of military self-sufficiency is there
for the doing by any political leader confident enough to put a common sense program to a
country with a history of can-do military effort, circa 1939-1945.
I'll be damned if I will let the shopping mall scent smellers in the Liberal Party make me
ashamed
to be Canadian. They should be properly ashamed and, of course, we are mortified, not
ashamed,
to have these cringing frontrunners as our government. Canada has its fair share of loyalists,
patriots, militant democrats and fighters: The Liberals cannot bleach that out of us, no matter how
much King-Trudeau mush they pass off as governance.
Canada needs a government that will ensure a strong and large military that both defends our
shores and is never caught short when a foreign conflict calls out for our participation. This is a
proposition that has genuine popular support and is an issue that a quick-witted conservative
party could and should use to seek a genuine mandate from the people of our country.
Is Landry backing the French on Iraq? Perhaps Chirac can come over and do a Vive Vichy Libre as part of the PQ election extravaganza.
People: We have to throw these morons out of office- makework bilingualism, aboriginal feudalism and Nanny State childcare collectives going out -baby, bathwater and forty years worth of Trudeauite neo-socialist claptrap.
Are all these managerialists who lost their shirts and their tidy nest eggs on mutual funds
plotting a fantasy insurrection against the U. S. A.?
A lot of the lefty opponents of invading Iraq were turning a neat and effortless capitalist profit
until the dotcom garbage perfumed the air. Perhaps that explains the strength of the internal
American and Canadian opposition to the Bush Doctrine: These liberal freeriders are with the
capitalist program as long as their savings multiply but damn those American warmongers when
war talk drives down the shares of their labour-sponsored investment fund.
Re Skewed Racism: It is not racist or bigoted to doubly condemn the Holocaust because it was carried out by a country and a people at the centre of the Western civilization that grew out of our Judeo-Christian heritage. This sort of cultural self-flagellation is deserved because it both acknowledges that our cultural relatives did this horrible thing and accepts that our Western system is the most advanced form of social organization to date. Thus, the recent words of Victor Hanson apply: "We need to be reminded of the tragic limitations of the human condition-and how rare Western culture is in its efforts to ameliorate the savagery innate to all people at all times".
Our peaceniks do not like the idea of Uncle Sam frightening the daylights out of
terrorists.
Mediation and pension-building rounds of circular negotiations are so much more desirable for
our professional management cadre. Think Nomenklatura, think Apparatchik, think of pay
cheques for a self-anointed mass of righteous and holy facilitators.
Interesting coincidence: Many of the Anti-Americans are vividly Anti-Israeli and tout the virtue
of Palestinian homicide bombers. Anti-Americanism is only ever in fashion behind the lines of
engagement. Canada is so far behind the military front that our too-clever lefties have convinced
themselves that we are immune from terrorism, hence their glibness. There are plenty of other
Canadians who stand with our American neighbours through thick and thin, war and peace. Free
Dominion represents the stalwart nature of this country.
Martin Sheen had a narrow escape a few years back down on the Magdalen Islands when he made the mistake of severely annoying the local sealhunters to the point where the QPP had to sneak good old Marty out the back door of his motel and get him on the next plane back to his Malibu hot tub before he got himself turned into trawl bait. His orientation is just as airheaded now as it was then. Charlie Daniels and his longhaired country boys are welcome down home any time. Sheen and sons can stick to playtime at the guacamole bar.
Final thought and quote: Sir Winston Churchill - "An appeaser is one who feeds an alligator, hoping it will eat him last."