> What used to be an uncomplicated show of pure human support has become political, and the politics is distinctly ugly. Under Canada’s New Government, we’re witnessing the rise of Canada’s New Militarism.
And it is about jolly time, too!
Canada equipped Gen Lewis Mackenzie and his Lads as UN peacekeeping troops back in the early 1990s to Sarajevo to “keep the peace” with thoroughly inadequate military equipment. That was a travesty and a joke — yet it is those days that this writer seems to pine for...
Our soldiers deserve better, and they deserve to do the jobs that they trained for. They trained to fight to preserve our way of life. No artificial obstacles should be placed in their way to impede them from doing the very best job that they can.
If “New Militarism” means that our soldiers get good equipment and excellent support, then I’m all for it.
Exactly.
See my post #12.