[hedgetrimmer]

I'd be more concerned with the sort boldly displayed in the pages of the New York Times & lauded in Hollywood & your universities than with any obscure conference of technocrats in Banff.

I guess thats because you're canadian. We Americans know the price we paid for independence and the price we are paying as we become 'integrated'. In fact the country is lost if you people have your way, and all the blood that has been shed to create America and preserve our liberty is wasted.

[GMMAC]

"I guess thats because you're Canadian." (appropriate capitalization added)

No, it's worse because openly revealing your nation's military secrets & carrying on a continual campaign to disparage its most valued cultural institutions is plainly worse than the spit-balling of possibilities that has you so upset. The first is, by definition, a clear & present danger to your Republic while the second is merely a possible threat at some vague future date.

Presuming to lecture any Canadian on the value of blood sacrifice is both patronizing & insulting.
Canada took approximately the same number of fatal casualties during WW1 that America suffered in Vietnam over a considerably longer time frame.
However, the real qualitative difference was that ours came from a then national population of roughly 8 million while America's in the Vietnam era was about 200 million.

Continuing on the subject of blood, you, and those who share your views, also seem to forget the very real blood ties which exist in the form of the countless families with branches on both sides of the border:
For what it's worth, both my wife & I have cousins who served America honorably in Vietnam - including a somewhat distant one listed on the Black Wall - and my children easily qualify genealogically for membership in America's principal blood-related patriotic organizations.