[Mark was here]

I see your point and I was just being a little silly with the target practice quip. I do recall them not screwing around with some indians at a road block.

My real point is that we should be able to use our strengths to help our neighbors during a real crisis, not getting drug into political bs. We should handle our own riots. Any Canadians (or American troops) helping after a Katrina type incident should know that disarming citizens is an illegal order.

[DoughtyOne]

I appreciate the comments Mark. What we have to do is think of this as incrementalism. If this is okay, then what next? If Canadian troops are okay on our soil, why not Mexican troops or U.N. troops?

I don’t want to take one step down that road.

We’re not talking about police. We’re talking about armed military forces with all that implies, troop carriers, tanks. Look once the barn door is open, what our vision of this was won’t matter. It’s their intent that will rule the day.

As far as I know, it would be the first time we would have armed foreign forces on our soil since the Revolutionary War.

What the hell is our leadership thinking? This is just absurd. We can’t even protect ourselves, or take care of our own problems?

What is wrong with this picture? It makes no sense whatsoever.